Private Equity - Leeds & Newcastle
LDC partners with business leaders and the corporate finance community across Yorkshire and the North East, from Sheffield to Newcastle via Leeds, York and Harrogate.
We opened our doors in Yorkshire & the North East in 1989 and have supported more than 60 of the region’s most ambitious management teams since. In the past five years alone, our team has invested over £300m to back 15 businesses across the region.
Our portfolio spans sectors as diverse as retail and construction through to technology, healthcare and support services and includes software and services company NBS, video games business Team17 and cycling brand ZyroFisher.
Collectively, the regional portfolio generates more than £850m in revenues and supports more than 5,000 jobs.
Our team is also supporting the buy and build strategies of a number of portfolio companies. These include specialist lettings agents Linley & Simpson, where the team completed five acquisitions in the first five months of our partnership, and pest control business Pelsis – which expanded in 2018 following the acquisition of US-based Curtis Gilmore.
LDC encouraged me to enter the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award. If I hadn’t done that, I wouldn’t have had the skill for the IPO meetings."
Debbie Bestwick MBE, Founder and CEO
Team17
Team17: From investment to IPO
We supported the continued growth of this innovative video games business, through to an IPO.
Linley & Simpson: Buy and build success
Private equity supports 11 acquisitions in the first 18 months of partnership to consolidate market leadership.
NBS: Partnering for growth
Leading specification platform for the construction industry continues to thrive with private equity support.
