Rubicon Partners
Rubicon Partners is a London-based lower-mid-market private equity firm founded in 1993 that specialises in control buyouts, corporate carve-outs and turnarounds of complex industrial businesses in manufacturing, engineering, distribution and services. It takes a hands-on operational approach to companies with enterprise values of roughly GBP 10 million to GBP 200 million across the United Kingdom and Europe. Having invested deal-by-deal for most of its history, the firm raised its first institutional fund (Rubicon Partners V) in 2022 and a second (Rubicon Partners VI) which closed in 2025, with Connection Capital among its investors. It reports around USD 413 million of capital under management.
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Recent exits
Coverage notes
1 fund tracked, 16 portfolio companies (13 active · 3 realized). Verified weekly from public filings and deal announcements.
Sector breakdown
16 companiesFunds & portfolio
Every fund Rubicon Partners has raised, with its portfolio companies. Hand-checked from public filings.
Rubicon PartnersEvergreen1993 · 33yr€383M13 active · 3 realized
Unrealized
13 held| Company | Sector | Geo | Entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrials |  UK | 2021 | |
| Business Services | UK | 2021 | |
| Business Services | UK | 2018 | |
| Industrials | UK | 2022 | |
| Industrials | UK | 2024 | |
| Industrials | UK | 2021 | |
| Business Services | UK | 2016 | |
| Industrials | UK | 2026 | |
| Industrials | UK | 2025 | |
| Industrials | UK | 2024 | |
| Industrials | UK | 2023 | |
| Industrials | UK | 2019 | |
| Industrials | UK | 2015 |
UK· Entry 2021UK· Entry 2021UK· Entry 2018UK· Entry 2022UK· Entry 2024UK· Entry 2021UK· Entry 2016UK· Entry 2026UK· Entry 2025UK· Entry 2024UK· Entry 2023UK· Entry 2019UK· Entry 2015Realized
3 exits| Company | Sector | Geo | Entry | Exit | Type | Buyer | MOIC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Services | UK | 2022 | 2026 | Secondary | – | ||
| Industrials | UK | 2023 | 2024 | Trade Sale | – | ||
| Aerospace & Defence | UK | 2011 | 2019 | Trade Sale | – |
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