LONDON – AMSTERDAM
LONDON – AMSTERDAM
DIFFERENTIATED APPROACH: “ENTREPRENEURS WITH CAPITAL"
WE INVEST IN MID-SIZE COMPANIES THAT CAN BENEFIT FROM OUR HANDS-ON SUPPORT
H2’S OPERATIONAL AND CONSULTING BACKGROUND BRINGS IN-DEPTH BUSINESS EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE
H2 EQUITY PARTNERS: A UNIQUE TRACK RECORD WITH OVER 25 YEARS OF SUCCESS
HANDS-ON SUPPORT: PARTNERING WITH MANAGEMENT TO IMPLEMENT AMBITIOUS PLANS BETTER AND FASTER

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"The H2 team were very hands on but also excellent at leaving the management team to perform their roles."
"During their ownership, H2 supported significant investment in facilities, infrastructure and people."
"At exit, H2 worked closely with the management shareholders to deliver the best outcome for all parties. H2 have been a great investor with which to work."
"Having worked with several Private Equity Houses, H2 are a valued partner and brought significantly more than just capital to our business."
"I’m delighted to say H2 kept to their promises and I made the right decision in selling to them."
"The key element after almost 3 years – there is clearly not an us and them attitude, nothing is too much trouble and H2 and my team work on solving problems and opportunities together."
"We were supported, challenged but also given the bandwidth to operate as we have always done."
"H2 are without question one of the most inclusive, encouraging and exciting teams to be involved with, but expect to get caught up in the excitement and to have to deal with the work load!."
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H2 Equity Partners, founded in 1991, is a leading Western European hands-on investment firm focusing on the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Benelux. H2 Equity Partners is an entrepreneurial and hands-on investment company investing in mid-sized companies with significant growth or improvement potential.

H2’s typical investment targets are companies generating annual sales of £20 – £500 million or €25 – €550 million. We are a sector agnostic investor and cover a wide range of industries and markets, but focus on fundamentally profitable sectors with underlying growth. Over the years we have invested in Healthcare, Building Materials,  Business Services, Software and IT and a whole range of other sectors.

H2 Equity Partners focuses on three main types of transaction:

  • Corporate carve-outs
  • Growth & profit improvement – including buy & build
  • Special situations

H2 Equity Partners has a differentiated approach; we consider ourselves “Entrepreneurs with Capital”

  • In depth business experience due to our operational & consulting backgrounds
  • Pre-transaction assessment by own (in-house) team
  • Hands-on support: to allow management to implement ambitious plans better & faster
  • Typically we’ll join the Board as a NED

We are used to working closely with management and other stakeholders to deliver results in complicated situations. Matters such as management succession or retirement issues for example do not scare us off unlike traditional private equity firms.

During the last 30 years we have gained experience in virtually all sectors and situations resulting in a high level of deliverability and the ability to evaluate transaction opportunities quickly.

H2 Equity Partners advises funds with ca. £450 million of investor capital and our team members personally invest in every single deal. We consider ourselves entrepreneurs with (committed) capital and take pride in our companies, their products, services and their staff.

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Henry Stevens

Senior Associate

 

Henry joined H2 in 2024 and is involved in both evaluating new investment opportunities and supporting existing portfolio companies.

 

Prior to joining H2, Henry spent nearly six years at the strategy consultancy firm, Roland Berger, where he was a core member of the Transaction & Investor Services platform supporting private equity and strategic investors across the Industrial and Regulated & Infrastructure sectors predominantly within the mid-market.

 

Henry graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor (Hons) in Economics. His interests outside of work are road cycling where he competes in time trials, running and skiing.

Terry Musson

The Amberon Group is a market leading traffic management provider to the utilities and Local Authority markets. Amberon was established in May 2002 with our first depot in Paignton, South West England. Our founding core principles remain at the heart of everything that we do and our continued desire to achieve our purpose; to provide the best service in the Traffic Management sector. This has been the foundation for our success and has cemented our position as the market leader in TM.

During the initial transaction we never felt under any pressure & instantly recognised we would become part of the family. H2 took the time to listen to our views & business strategy, it was obvious from the very beginning that they would be the perfect partner for us.

The guys at H2 have enabled us to continue the momentum & have provided the expertise & knowledge to help us continue on the journey to constantly improve our service offering.

Working with H2 during the last 2 years has given us additional support not just financially but the advice & expertise has helped analytically & strategically.

The ambition and the drive H2 have is extremely infectious & continues to assist the group to overachieve.

It’s enormously reassuring to know H2 will always be at the end of the phone to offer advice but heartening to know they have the trust in us to deliver.