We create change through collaboration and responsible growth
Our sectors
Food & Consumer
The consumer industry – specifically, consumer staples where we focus – is characterised by its relative stability across economic cycles. We have consistently generated compelling investment returns by identifying opportunities to enhance organic growth and pursue industrial consolidation in attractive subsectors.
Our approach centres on investing in people, capacity, innovation and brand support to drive above-market growth.
Business Services
Structural trends — including the shift towards specialist service providers, rising automation and increasing complexity — are accelerating the growth and professionalisation of business services while creating significant consolidation opportunities.
We target market-leading platforms that are well-positioned to capitalise on this dynamic, backing management teams with the ambition and capability to execute disciplined consolidation strategies and build category-defining businesses.
Industrial Goods & Services
Our expertise in specific sub-sectors, such as building materials, packaging, transportation and industrial services, enables us to successfully navigate the large and complex industrials sector.
This enables us to identify opportunities arising from key macro trends, such as the ongoing energy transition, automation and digitisation, and deglobalisation of supply chains. It gives us an edge in selecting companies expected to benefit from those trends, with attractive transformation potential.
Healthcare
In Healthcare, attractive investment opportunities are driven by capacity expansion, innovation, consolidation among service providers and value creation through service improvement.
In all segments of Healthcare, we seek to identify companies that stand to benefit from trends towards enhanced consumer choice, improved information available to patients, and prevention over treatment.
Food & Consumer
Food & Consumer
The consumer industry – specifically, consumer staples where we focus – is characterised by its relative stability across economic cycles. We have consistently generated compelling investment returns by identifying opportunities to enhance organic growth and pursue industrial consolidation in attractive subsectors.
Our approach centres on investing in people, capacity, innovation and brand support to drive above-market growth.
Business Services
Business Services
Structural trends — including the shift towards specialist service providers, rising automation and increasing complexity — are accelerating the growth and professionalisation of business services while creating significant consolidation opportunities.
We target market-leading platforms that are well-positioned to capitalise on this dynamic, backing management teams with the ambition and capability to execute disciplined consolidation strategies and build category-defining businesses.
Industrial Goods & Services
Industrial Goods & Services
Our expertise in specific sub-sectors, such as building materials, packaging, transportation and industrial services, enables us to successfully navigate the large and complex industrials sector.
This enables us to identify opportunities arising from key macro trends, such as the ongoing energy transition, automation and digitisation, and deglobalisation of supply chains. It gives us an edge in selecting companies expected to benefit from those trends, with attractive transformation potential.
Healthcare
Healthcare
In Healthcare, attractive investment opportunities are driven by capacity expansion, innovation, consolidation among service providers and value creation through service improvement.
In all segments of Healthcare, we seek to identify companies that stand to benefit from trends towards enhanced consumer choice, improved information available to patients, and prevention over treatment.
Why our strategy works
The knowledge, versatility and dedication of our teams lie at the heart of our success. Our people are industry insiders, who are able to see beyond a company’s current footprint and deliver ambitious transformation.
Our core business is divided into:
Sector Teams
Our sector teams apply their specialist expertise to four key sectors at the heart of global economic activity:
- Food & Consumer
- Business Services
- Industrial Goods & Services
- Healthcare
Country Teams
Our country teams are based across seven offices globally, encompassing multiple regions:
- DACH
- Italy
- Luxembourg
- Nordics
- Spain
- UK
- US
Mid-Market Team
Our Mid-Market Fund Team has a superior capacity to transform niche champions owing to its deep integration in the PAI ecosystem, which brings cutting-edge platform resources to mid-market companies.
Our team has the advantage of a country fund and is able to leverage a local network to source investment opportunities and drive growth through internationalisation.
PAI Performance Group (PPG)
The PAI Performance Group (PPG) consists of operational specialists providing deep expertise in critical functions such as Operations, Pricing, ESG, Digital, and Talent. The group helps management teams of PAI portfolio companies deliver sustained improvements in performance.
Made up of more than 17 professionals, the PPG assists portfolio company management teams in developing tailor-made value creation plans, as well as contributing to the identification of specific operational levers and participating in their implementation.
The team also ensures that best practices and learnings are shared across portfolio companies. Since 2011, the group has organised regular gatherings between top portfolio executives on specific topics including Sustainability, HR, Finance and Digital.
Client & Capital Group
We maintain a comprehensive approach to client service, with an emphasis on partnership and transparency. This is coordinated by a dedicated 17-person Client & Capital Group (CCG), which comprises both the Investor Team and the Capital Markets Team.
The CCG leads on primary fund relationships with limited partners and facilitates investor access across the capital structure, including equity co-investment and private debt.
The team is led by one of the co-managing partners and is responsible for all capital-raising activities, delivering a unique and best-in-class approach to capital formation for debt and equity capital partners.
We are focused on building industry leaders
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