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Top 25 Business services private equity companies based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 1,191 business services private equity companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 12,645 professional contacts across them, including 6,763 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers business services private equity companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 27, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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1,191Companies
12,645Contacts tracked
6,763Verified emails
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The 25 largest business services private equity companies based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 1,191 business services private equity companies based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 27, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to business services private equity companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
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1Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 2026501-1,000629 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Permira is a global investment firm that backs successful businesses with growth ambitions.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
2Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 2026201-500384 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Clearwater is an independent corporate finance house focused on unlocking the latent potential in every business.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
3Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 2026201-500376 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Coller Capital, founded in 1990, is one of the world's leading investors in the secondary market for private assets – and widely acknowledged as an innovator in secondaries.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
4Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 2026201-500337 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Campbell Lutyens is the world’s leading independent private capital advisor.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
5Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 2026201-500301 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“EPIC Investment Partners is an independent investment, administration and advisory firm.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
6Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 2026201-500294 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We are a leading pure-play, international private equity firm that has been investing for nearly 50 years.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
7Indirect evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 2026201-500283 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Leonard Curtis is a team of 300+ financial, legal and business experts, operating across the UK and offshore.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
8Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200276 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“BGF is the most active and influential investor in small and mid-sized businesses in the UK.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
9Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 2026201-500273 contacts →

Strong evidence

“IK Partners (“IK”) is a European private equity firm focused on investments in the Benelux, DACH, France, Nordics and the UK.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
10Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200250 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Founded over 20 years ago, Oakley Capital was established to be the partner of choice for exceptional founders and entrepreneurs.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
11Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 2026201-500214 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Inflexion is a leading European mid-market private equity firm with €20bn under management investing in high growth, entrepreneurial businesses with ambitious management teams and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
12Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200187 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Vitruvian Partners is an international investment firm that supports the most ambitious and talented entrepreneurs and higher growth companies to achieve their goals.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
13Indirect evidenceBolton, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200170 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Thinking about how to sell your business?”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
14Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200163 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Rede Partners is the private markets specialist, partnering with leading GPs to deliver integrated, multi-disciplinary services across primary fundraising, capital solutions and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
15Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-50122 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Athens helps clients make superior investment decisions and supports them to deliver value from these decisions through timely implementation.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
16Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200116 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Tigbourne Capital is a distinguished private equity firm founded in 2011, headquartered in the UK and boasting a robust footprint across the USA, Europe, and the Arabian Gulf.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
17Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200109 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Terra Firma drives value creation.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
18Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-20098 contacts →

Strong evidence

“EMK Capital is a growth-focused private equity firm.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
19Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-20098 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Livingbridge is a leading mid-market private equity firm.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
20Indirect evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 2026501-1,00097 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“K3 Capital Group is a professional services firm providing advisory services to SMEs throughout the UK and overseas.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
21Partial evidenceNewbury, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5095 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Initium is a specialist sell-side corporate finance firm advising founders and shareholders of ambitious, privately owned businesses on company sales, exit planning and building…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
22Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-20085 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Holland Mountain is a leading specialist consulting firm and data solutions provider for the Private Markets industry.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
23Indirect evidencePreston, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-20085 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Here at Altius Group, we’ve been helping businesses buy, grow and sell for over 40 years.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
24Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-20083 contacts →

Strong evidence

“MML is an international mid-market private equity investor focused on investing alongside strong management teams and working in partnership with them to deliver their bold…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
25Strong evidenceLeeds, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-20081 contacts →

Strong evidence

“YFM Equity Partners are specialist, independently owned, private equity investors.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026

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Business services private equity companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 27, 2026
53.5%Verified-email coverage
10.6Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
61.2%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 27, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
809
11-50
286
51-200
62
201-500
20
501-1,000
3
1,001-5,000
4
10001+
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 1,191 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among business services private equity companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “business services private equity companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names business services private equity companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among business services private equity companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 6,763 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names business services private equity companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many business services private equity companies are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 1,191 business services private equity companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Permira, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most business services private equity companies?

London leads with 729 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (28) and Birmingham (22).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 6,763 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,191 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 27, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.