Transaction types

No two investment opportunities are the same. Vitruvian Partners seeks to create the optimal deal structure for each individual transaction. Most importantly the financial structure of a deal must ensure clear alignment of interests between management teams, entrepreneurs and ourselves.

In most transactions, Vitruvian Partners' funds will seek to own a majority of the equity of the business in question. However, in select situations, our funds may take a minority position. In all cases, Vitruvian Partners is an active investor supporting management at board level.

Specifically, we invest in:

Management Buyouts: Opportunities where Vitruvian funds and management teams purchase an underlying business, financed by a combination of bank debt and equity

Growth Buyouts: Situations where Vitruvian funds and management teams purchase a platform business, with a plan to pursue vigorous organic growth and/or acquisitions

Recapitalisations: Transactions where Vitruvian funds acquire a stake in an operating business, thereby freeing up capital and allowing existing shareholders to realise value

Growth Capital: Opportunities where Vitruvian funds invest in a rapidly growing company, providing capital for the business to support its future growth

Private Investments in Public Companies (“PIPES”): Vitruvian funds make investments in a quoted company to enable management to exploit a strategic opportunity, when raising capital by other means may not be optimal for existing shareholders

Public-to-Private Transactions: Transactions where Vitruvian funds finance a takeover offer for a quoted company in order to exploit strategic opportunities which may be more effectively pursued as a private company