A permanent home for profitable small and medium-sized businesses

About us

GV Capital Partners is a permanent capital group focused on acquiring small to medium-sized businesses based in the United Kingdom. We buy to keep and hold forever.

We are hands-on owners and look to grow our businesses the old-fashioned way. We have no interest in driving short term returns through “restructuring” or financial engineering. We know it takes time to build strong and thriving companies. Our perpetual investment horizon allows us to think in decades rather than years.

We are sector agnostic but require our acquisitions to have traded for at least five years, have an established presence in their core markets and to be operating in industries with positive underlying trends.

A sale to GVCP represents a natural exit for sellers looking for a straight forward private sale that achieves their transition goals while growing the business and ensuring continuity to customers, employees and the community. We see ourselves as an attractive buyer, not just in terms of financial value, but also thanks to our our ability to complete investments in short time frames and to provide fast, transparent decisions.

If you are a business owner looking to sell, get in touch with a short description of the business and tell us the sort of transaction you are seeking, we can tell you immediately whether we have an interest.

If we do, we can proceed instantly.

Acquiring and developing small and medium-sized businesses in the UK

  • We specialise in acquiring and developing companies within niche markets across a range of industries in the UK.

    We look to acquire established businesses with between £1m - £50m in annual sales, a track record of consistent earning power and identifiable avenues for profit growth.

    We look for simple businesses, if there’s a lot of technology we won’t understand it.

    We want to engage with motivated sellers and we will be upfront about our offer price. We don’t want to waste our time, or that of the seller, if the business is not for sale or the price is unknown.

  • We focus on delivering sustainable growth in our businesses rather than relying on short-term financial engineering.

    We are willing to pay fair prices for the businesses we acquire, the best deals are those which benefit both seller and buyer.

    We are a small team and can make decisions quickly. We pride ourselves on being straightforward, honest and easy to deal with.

    We seek to preserve the legacy of owners and build on what they have achieved. If it ain’t broke we won’t try to fix it.

  • We are backed by a highly accomplished group of successful entrepreneurs, family offices, business executives, and investors who bring decades of experience in successfully growing small to mid-sized businesses.

    GVCP has access to its own sources of equity capital and debt finance to fund suitable deals and can call on additional equity funding for larger transactions.