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The businesses of tomorrow are being built today.

We offer an investor’s perspective and an operator’s skill set to the entrepreneurs and founders we back.

We back founder-led and family-owned businesses at the growth and expansion stage.

Lionhead provides flexible capital to support scaling, generational transition or selective liquidity without compromising what made the business successful.  We invest in companies providing essential products and services with strong margins, high free cash flow and resilient demand, businesses that form the backbone of the modern economy and benefit from structural growth tailwinds.  We are long-term partners to management teams, bringing strategic guidance, operational discipline and access to networks that accelerate growth while preserving entrepreneurial spirit.
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Investment strategy

We take a truly hands-on approach in working alongside motivated entrepreneurs and management teams to help them take their businesses to the next level.

Backing Builders

We invest alongside exceptional entrepreneurs and families to scale enduring, category-defining businesses.

Long-Term Mindset

We align around long-term value creation rather than short-term exits.

Operational Discipline

We support through strategy, governance and capital allocation to build enduring, high performing platforms.

Built for Growth

We invest in essential products and services businesses that underpin economies, from industrial and consumer services to niche manufacturing and logistics.

Private Equity Team

Paul Quirk 
Co-Managing Partner
David Deetlefs
Co-Managing Partner
Christopher Sims
Partner – Chief Investment Officer
Edward LePine Williams
Partner – Business Development & Investor Relations
Barak Herman
Partner – Chief Operating Officer
Nicholas Ackerman
Partner – Private Equity
Christopher Thompson
Partner – Private Equity