Graphite Capital Partners V

Graphite Capital Management is a prominent private equity investment firm based in London, specializing in mid-market opportunities across various sectors in the United Kingdom. Established in 1981, the firm has built a strong reputation for generating substantial returns by partnering with management teams in over 100 companies. Graphite focuses on businesses valued between £30 million and £150 million, as they believe these companies possess the potential for rapid growth while benefiting from seasoned management and diversified revenue streams. The firm emphasizes a collaborative approach, leveraging its extensive experience, networks, and insights to enhance the value of its portfolio companies. By adapting its investment strategies to reflect evolving market dynamics, including technological advancements and changing consumer preferences, Graphite Capital Management continues to successfully navigate various economic cycles.

Ffitch, Simon Kenneth

Investment Manager

Markus Golser

Managing Partner

Gray, Andrew John Kennedy

Senior Partner Member of the Management Board

Mark Hall

Partner

Innes, Michael Thomas

Senior Partner

Khan, Mudassir

Partner - Porfolio Management

James Markham

Senior Partner - Value Creation

May, Simon

Partner

Jenny Michelman

Partner in Portfolio Management

Richards, Roderick Lamont

Managing Partner

Tony Saade

Investment Manager

Spence, Tim

CFO and Senior Partner, Board Member

John Western

Investment Manager

48 past transactions

Wonderbly

Acquisition in 2021
Wonderbly is a full stack publishing startup from London. Wonderbly combines the power of stories with the possibilities of technology, to create magical, personalised experiences and make kids around the world more curious, clever and kind. Their first product www.lostmy.name sold over 600,000 copies and shipped to over 135 countries in the world.

Higher Ed International

Private Equity Round in 2021
Higher Ed International is a fast-growing global online programme manager (“OPM”).

Babble Cloud(IP Solutions UK)

Acquisition in 2020
Babble Cloud provides unified communications services in the United Kingdom. The company provides hosted VoIP solutions, including call conferencing, VoIP handsets and softphones, connectivity and security, implementation and training, and IP SIP trunking; and cloud services, including Microsoft Lync 2013 and Microsoft Office 365 implementation, advanced business continuity, cloud backup and disaster recovery, application delivery, server hosting and virtual servers, and cloud implementation and workshops.

Ten10

Acquisition in 2020
Ten10 is a software testing consultancy provider that helps its clients manage the significant risks involved with software implementations, upgrades and integration. Ten10 delivers software testing using the best people, the best processes and the best technology, enabling organisations to embrace innovation and technological change with absolute confidence. They offer a broad range of testing services designed to work around your timescales. Each one is underpinned by their rigorous and creative approach, and delivered through best-in-class technology and talented experts.

Hanson Wade

Acquisition in 2019
Hanson Wade specialises in bringing people together through outstanding business conferences and year round community contact. They accelerate growth across industry and across the globe. They do this by finding the right people, the right issues, and the right answers to deliver commercial results fast and with less risk.

Compass Community

Acquisition in 2017
Compass Community is provides fostering services and children’s residential care. All of Their children’s homes provide the highest quality care and substitute parenting for children who experience a range of behavioural and emotional difficulties. They recognise the importance of investing in and retaining good support workers; offering high quality training, frequent supervision as well as specialist independent consultation. The culture is based on family values of respect, caring, education, social and leisure pursuits and good health.

YSC Consulting

Acquisition in 2017
YSC provides leadership strategy consulting services from 17 offices in Europe, North America, South Africa and Asia-Pacific. It has more than 400 clients including Qantas, HSBC, Diageo, GlaxoSmithKline, Tesco and BP.

Random42

Acquisition in 2017
Random42 is the global leader in providing scientific digital solutions to the pharmaceutical and biotech industry with its award-winning medical animation, virtual reality, augmented reality and interactive solutions. Over its 27 year history, Random42 has worked with 24 of the top 25 pharma companies as well as numerous emerging biotech companies.

Beck & Pollitzer

Acquisition in 2016
They provide comprehensive engineering services to all manufacturing and industrial sectors, both locally and internationally. Their core service is machinery installation and machine moving, including the turnkey management of complex industrial projects. This can range from single machines being moved within an existing site to large scale factor. They provide comprehensive engineering services to all manufacturing and industrial sectors, both locally and internationally. Their core service is machinery installation and machine moving, including the turnkey management of complex industrial projects. This can range from single machines being moved within an existing site to large scale factory and production lines being moved from one country to another. They are also able to offer a range of mechanical, electrical and piping solutions as well as support with control systems and machinery modifications. In addition to their machinery services they have a proud heritage in providing a range of engineering support services. These range from contract lifting and crane hire to specialist heavy plant hire. Finally to ensure that they can move their clients to where they want to be they provide a specialist transportation and storage service including heavy haulage and abnormal load transportation. All of their capabilities and services are offered together with complete project management that can organise, plan and execute the largest and most complex machine installation contracts on behalf of their clients.y and production lines being moved from one country to another. They are also able to offer a range of mechanical, electrical and piping solutions as well as support with control systems and machinery modifications. In addition to their machinery services they have a proud heritage in providing a range of engineering support services. These range from contract lifting and crane hire to specialist heavy plant hire. Finally to ensure that they can move their clients to where they want to be they provide a specialist transportation and storage service including heavy haulage and abnormal load transportation. All of their capabilities and services are offered together with complete project management that can organise, plan and execute the largest and most complex machine installation contracts on behalf of their clients. Established over 150 years ago in 1863 and now privately owned by their own management together with Bridgepoint Development Capital, they have offices and facilities in 13 countries and a global skilled workforce of over 500 people. They have the best engineers and project managers as well as skilled supervisors and installation teams to ensure that they are able to meet the complex demands of their clients. They specialise in being flexible to their client’s needs and can therefore adapt their business quickly from introducing new services to opening offices in new territories. Their success is a direct result of listening to the needs of their clients and working in partnership with them to provide them with a tailored solution to their needs. It is this approach to customer service that results in 80% of new projects coming from existing or previous clients. From it’s origins in the UK the business has now grown and operates across Europe and Eastern Europe as well as in Asia. They have continued to expand to ensure they provide local support to their international clients wherever they are investing in production facilities.

New World Trading Company

Acquisition in 2016
NWTC opened its first pub in 2011 and now operates 14 pubs/restaurants nationally under five sub brands: The Botanist, The Oast House, Smugglers Cove, The Trading House and The Club House. All of NWTC’s outlets offer an exceptional range of traditional cask and craft beers, innovative cocktails, an all-day menu of homemade food including the celebrated ‘hanging kebab’, with live music featuring every evening. NWTC’s talented management team and its distinctive consumer proposition have been recognised in numerous industry awards. In March this year, the company won the Publican awards for Best Pub Employer and Best Managed Pub Company. NWTC is expanding rapidly, with seven units opened in the past 15 months and four more planned to open in the next year. The company currently employs more than 900 people.

Trenchard Aviation

Acquisition in 2015
Trenchard Aviation is the parent company of a number of long established business within the MRO and Aircraft Interior manufacturing sectors. The aim of the group is to offer a range of complementary divisions for nose to tail maintenance, service and repair. As more companies are added to the group, although there may be some overlap, each new acquisition with add a specific area of expertise to the overall Group.

Eden Brown Built Environment

Acquisition in 2014
Eden Brown Built Environment provides professional recruitment consultancies, Eden Brown has been placing specialists within the built environment arena for over 25 years.

Resourcing Group

Acquisition in 2014
Resourcing Group is a specialist recruiter operating across five core sectors: 1.Social Housing 2.Facilities Management & Maintenance 3.Construction 4.Surveying & Property 5.Design & Engineering The very nature of being a specialist agency means we know what we're talking about, who we're talking to, and what our clients and candidates really need. For us, there is nothing more important than delivering a personal service, and we only ever onboard consultants who are proud to be part of that approach. That is why 100% of the clients and candidates we asked, would recommend our services. With UK offices in London and Birmingham, we have built authoritative reputations across our specialist markets, in-line with our values of detail, direction, and development.

Caritas Recruitment

Acquisition in 2014
Caritas Recruitment provides social care recruitment consultancy.

Human Capital Investment Group

Acquisition in 2014
Human Capital Investment Group Ltd's line of business includes holding or owning securities of companies other than banks.
Proactive Technical provides recruitment consultancy services that cover temporary and permanent staffing within the technical sector.

Retinue Solutions

Acquisition in 2014
Retinue is an innovative managed services and workforce management provider who excels at delivering high calibre talent management solutions in the healthcare sector.

nGAGE Specialist Recruitment

Acquisition in 2014
nGAGE is a UK based group which genuinely supports, steers and brings together specialist recruitment businesses, enabling them to become market leaders in their chosen sector. As specialists, rather than generalists, they are resolutely focused on specific sectors, enabling us to achieve better results for their clients as part of their award winning service offering. Since 2007 the business has been identifying ambitious owner-managers of high potential recruitment companies and giving them the tools and mentoring support to enable rapid and sustainable growth. It is their belief that by providing exemplary service, expertise and cost efficiencies they can help build the most dynamic and commercially successful recruitment group in the country and in just eight years, we are well on track to realising that vision. nGAGE are extremely diligent about allowing recruitment businesses to join their fold. We look for entrepreneurial partners who can complement their divisional fields of excellence and who will help us execute their strategy of becoming the UK’s specialist recruitment company of choice.

ICR Integrity

Acquisition in 2014
Provider of pipeline repair and maintenance services intended for oil and gas, power, defense, nuclear, utilities and renewables industries. The company combines new, integrated methodologies and offers improved planning, specialist technical input and bespoke engineering, enabling clients to cut costs, improve efficiency and get real value.

City & County Healthcare Group

Acquisition in 2013
City & County Healthcare Group provides home care services to people living in the United Kingdom. The company offers domiciliary care and support, extra care schemes, dementia care, and live-in care services for older people; and specialist care services that include physical and learning disabilities, dementia care, and end of life care for adults and children. It also provides reablement services to help people adapt to life at home after a period of serious illness or injury.

Hawksmoor

Acquisition in 2013
Hawksmoor, operates steak clubs and cocktail bars in London. It offers wines, cocktails, and beers; private dining rooms and event spaces; space for weddings; event management services; and pre-theatre and post-theatre meal services. The company also provides breakfasts, roasts, seafood, and beef products.

Explore Learning Ltd.

Acquisition in 2012
Explore Learning Ltd. operates tutorial centers in the United Kingdom. The company provides mathematics and English tutorials; and 11 plus and entrance exams preparation courses that cover verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, arithmetic and reasoning, writing composition, reading comprehension, vocabulary, punctuation, and grammar and spelling, as well as online home practice resources.

Corbin & King Ltd

Private Equity Round in 2012
Chris Corbin and Jeremy King have been partners in business for over 30 years. During that time they have created some of London’s most iconic and best-loved restaurants and have contributed a significant chapter to London’s restaurant history. Their company, Corbin & King manages their existing assets and actively pursues other opportunities within the world of hospitality, both in the UK and abroad. The current portfolio comprises The Wolseley, The Delaunay, Brasserie Zédel, Colbert, Fischer's, The Colony Grill Room, Bellanger as well as The Beaumont in Mayfair, their first hotel.

The National Fostering Agency

Acquisition in 2012
The National Fostering Agency provides fostering and related support services foster carers, children, and young people in the United Kingdom. It engages in finding foster parents for children; and providing training courses to foster carers.

Teaching Personnel

Acquisition in 2010
Teaching Personnel Ltd provides educational recruitment services.

London Square

Venture Round in 2010
London Square is a residential developer and house builder.

Willowbrook Healthcare

Private Equity Round in 2010
Willowbrook Healthcare Limited owns and operates healthcare homes. It operates three separate nursing care suites, one for younger persons with an enduring mental illness characterized by episodes of challenge type behavior, a second for persons with a dementia type pathology together with a challenging behavior profile and a third facility for self–funding persons with either early onset or more advanced dementia of a non challenging nature.

Performance Window Group

Acquisition in 2009
Performance Window Group manufactures and markets timber windows. It envisions to be the UK's market leading supplier of high performance, engineered timber fenestration.

Performance Timber Products Group

Private Equity Round in 2009
Performance Timber Products Group is manufactures and distributes timber furniture.

Willowbrook Healthcare

Private Equity Round in 2008
Willowbrook Healthcare Limited owns and operates healthcare homes. It operates three separate nursing care suites, one for younger persons with an enduring mental illness characterized by episodes of challenge type behavior, a second for persons with a dementia type pathology together with a challenging behavior profile and a third facility for self–funding persons with either early onset or more advanced dementia of a non challenging nature.

Kurt Geiger

Acquisition in 2008
Kurt Geiger is a footwear and accessories company that retails a diversified portfolio of shoes, bags, and accessories. The Kurt Geiger design studio sees distinct product creation for each label. From Kurt Geiger London’s Italian craftsmanship marrying cutting-edge materials, signature sandals, and razor sharp stilettos to KG Kurt Geiger’s London-cool, Miss KG’s fashion essentials at accessible price points, and Carvela’s unique signature of sophisticated footwear and everyday must-haves. In 2011 Kurt Geiger founded Everything But the Dress. A striking accessory collection with a blend of the capital’s edgy attitude with quality and accessibility—London styling is at the heart of the Kurt Geiger brand. An authority on designer footwear and accessories for women and men, today Kurt Geiger has over 70 stores globally and over 170 concessions within the world’s most prestigious department stores.

Alexander Mann Solutions

Acquisition in 2007
Alexander Mann Solutions is a consulting company that provides talent acquisition and management services.

The Third Space

Acquisition in 2007
The Third Space is a luxury health club, occupying over 100,000 sqft over 3 floors, in the heart of London’s financial centre.
Dominion Technology Gases Investment (Dominion), is a global supplier of diving, welding, industrial, laboratory and calibration gases and associated equipment to the offshore oil and gas industry.

NES Global Talent

Acquisition in 2006
Established in 1978, NES Global Talent is an award winning manpower specialist that provides candidates across the Oil & Gas, Power, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Chemicals, Mining and, IT sectors worldwide. It provides guaranteed staffing solutions, sourced from a global talent pool by a dedicated, discipline specific team of over 500 consultants.

Micheldever Tyre Services

Acquisition in 2006
Micheldever Tyre Services operates as an wholesaler and retailer of tires. MTS has established a wholesale distribution network centred around 15 warehouses throughout the UK, and from these sites it supplies over 6,000 retailers nationwide via its own fleet of 225 vehicles. MTS also operates the UK’s fastest growing tyre retail chain; the number of outlets in the Protyre network increased from 63 in 2014/15 to 88 in 2015/16 and is now said to be at around the 100 mark.

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Acquisition in 2006
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Park Holidays UK

Acquisition in 2006
Park Holidays UK operate 28 holiday parks in the South of England and are the largest holiday park operator along the South Coast. The company also carries out conservation work in the areas around their parks and have been awarded the David Bellamy Conservation award for their efforts. Park Holidays UK are members of the British Holiday and Home Parks Association (BH&HPA) and the National Caravan Council, in which all of their holiday parks were awarded the ‘Approved Holiday Park’ by the NCC.

Groucho Club

Acquisition in 2006
The Groucho Club is a private members club formed in 1985 located on Dean Street in London’s Soho.

TMP Worldwide

Acquisition in 2006
TMP Worldwide is provides employer branding and recruitment marketing, resourcing and assessment, and specialist services.

Equanet

Acquisition in 2005
Equanet, part of the UK's fastest-growing IT supplier - Kelway Group, works closely with medium to large sized companies and public sector organisations to identify, develop and deliver IT solutions with the vast array of products and services we provide.

Jane Norman

Acquisition in 2003
Jane Norman is a United Kingdom based women's clothing retailer.

PIFC Consulting

Acquisition in 2002
PIFC Consulting is provides pensions and employee benefits consulting services. The company offers benefit consultancy, corporate healthcare and risk benefits, financial planning, and international services to companies with overseas parents establishing/established in the UK. Its clients include city-based financial and other professional service companies, telecom and information technology, leisure industry, and biotechnology.

Maplin Electronics

Acquisition in 2001
Maplin Electronics is an online retailer of consumer electronics in the UK. The company has more than 200 stores across the UK and more than 30,000 products to choose from in-store and online. It was founded in 1972.

Ridgmont Care Homes Group

Acquisition in 2001
Ridgmont Care Homes Group is provides personnel care management services. The Company offers nursing and social service for elders and individuals with disabilities.

Huntress Search

Acquisition in 2000
Huntress Search Limited operates as a white collar recruitment company. The company provides permanent, contract, and temporary staff in professional areas, including commercial, technology, finance, legal, executive search, public relations and marketing, and executive personal assistant. It serves small to medium sized entities and blue chip corporations. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Bracknell, Brighton, Bromley, Crawley, Croydon, Docklands, Epsom, Exeter, Guildford, Hammersmith, Leeds, London City, Maidstone, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Reading, Sutton, and Victoria, United Kingdom, as well as in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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