Unlocking Great BritishBusinesses.
We invest in businesses where ownership change, operational underperformance or structural complexity has created an opportunity to unlock long-term value.
What we look for
- Geography
- Great Britain
- Revenue
- £10m–£150m
- Opportunity
- Meaningful improvement potential
- Sector
- Sector agnostic*
We are interested in businesses with something worth preserving and a meaningful opportunity to improve. We are sector agnostic, excluding real estate, and particularly interested in situations where ownership, capital, structure or performance has created a disconnect between the business’s current circumstances and its underlying potential.
Our approach
Complexity does not have to define a business.
We look beyond the immediate circumstances to understand what makes a business valuable, what is holding it back and what could be possible under the right ownership, capital, people and decisions. We are particularly interested where a difficult situation has created a disconnect between the underlying business and its current circumstances.
- 01What makes the business good?
- 02What is holding it back?
- 03What could unlock it?
- 04What could it become?
Through complexity, we see possibility.
Situations
Different situations.Same opportunity.
Every business is different. What connects the situations we consider is the potential to unlock a good underlying business from the complexity surrounding it.
We consider a broad range of special situations, including accelerated and distressed transactions. The examples below are illustrative rather than exhaustive.
Ownership
A business ready for a new chapter
When a business needs different ownership to fulfil its potential.
Performance
Good business, difficult period
When short-term pressure has obscured long-term potential.
Restructuring
Complexity requiring a pragmatic transaction
When the underlying business can be separated from the circumstances surrounding it.
Separation
Value within a wider group
When a business could be worth more outside the structure it sits within.
Contact
See a business with more to give?
We are comfortable engaging early and treat enquiries confidentially.
hello@syerstoncap.com