We are LDC

Our experience, scale, and relationship-based approach to private equity helps management teams to grow their businesses, their way.

Our experience, scale, and relationship-based approach to private equity helps management teams to grow their businesses, their way.

Part of Lloyds Banking Group, we offer strategic support, challenge when necessary and provide flexible growth capital as either minority or majority shareholders. Our teams combine local relationships with national scale, operating across our ten regional offices with significant experience in helping businesses from all sectors of the UK to grow.

£3.6bn Invested since 2014

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Our 2024 review

We’re celebrating another strong year having invested £410m in 17 businesses, taking our three-year total to £1.2bn. We will continue our investment activity in 2025 as we support businesses across the length and breadth of Britain.

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A Decade of Impact


Enabling growth in a single business or even across a year of investments is one thing, but sustaining this long term is a real achievement.

This is the impact we’ve generated in the last 10 years.

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Being trusted by the management teams we back, to support them on their journey, is both a privilege we accept proudly and a responsibility we take seriously.”

Toby Rougier, Chief Executive
LDC

We Understand Your Sector

Thanks to our scale, experience, and success, we have significant experience in helping businesses across all sectors of the UK economy to grow.

Business Services
Consumer
Healthcare
ICT
Industrials
Media
Technology

We Are Where You Are

Our teams live and work right across the UK. By combining local relationships with national scale, we’re able to build trusted relationships from day one.

East Midlands & East of England
London
North East & Scotland
North West
South
South West & Wales
West Midlands
Yorkshire
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Our relationship-based approach to investing, and people-focused culture means we can provide the right level of support for ambitious, growth businesses right across the UK.”

Nicol Fraser, Managing Partner, Head of London

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Being able to work alongside a wide variety of management teams, from tech companies to healthcare, is really rewarding. It gives us a breadth of experience and the tools to help businesses of all shapes and sizes to succeed.”

Emma Borrie, Investment Manager

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I enjoy building relationships with ambitious and capable management teams and playing a positive role in meeting and beating their aspirations together.”

Jonathan Caswell, Origination Director

Award-Winning Private Equity

We’re proud that our teams, transactions and the achievements of our portfolio companies are recognised by regional and national award programmes.

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Supporting Young Entrepreneurs

LDC’s partnership with The King’s Trust recently celebrated its fifth anniversary.

To mark this important milestone, we worked with the UK’s leading youth charity to design and develop ‘Business Advance’ – a comprehensive package of support and funding to help young entrepreneurs sustain and grow their businesses, recognising the important role they play in the future of the UK economy.

LDC & The King’s Trust
Supporting Young Entrepreneurs

The LDC Network

The LDC Network is made up of experienced Non-Executive Directors from every sector of the UK economy. With a portfolio of 90 growing companies, each with at least one Non-Executive on their board, we’re always looking to expand our network.

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The LDC Network

Careers at LDC

LDC offers unrivalled career opportunities thanks to our scale and activity levels, alongside an industry-leading training programme.

Our diverse teams are equally committed to supporting each other, the management teams we back and the communities we operate in.

Over 140 investment professionals have chosen to work with us. We’d love to talk about your next career move and the opportunities available at LDC.

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Careers at LDC

Trusted with Ambition®

Take a look at our latest brochure and find out why our investment partners trust us with their business growth ambitions.

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Trusted with Ambition®