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.
Key facts
Recent exits
Coverage notes
1 fund tracked, 14 portfolio companies (12 active · 2 realized). Verified weekly from public filings and deal announcements.
Funds & portfolio
Every fund Rubicon Partners has raised, with its portfolio companies. Hand-checked from public filings.
Rubicon PartnersEvergreen1993 · 33yr€383M12 active · 2 realized
Unrealized
12 held| Company | Sector | Geo | Entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airedale | Industrials | United Kingdom | 2021 |
| Aquamain | Business Services | United Kingdom | 2018 |
| Avove | Business Services | United Kingdom | 2022 |
| Bamboo Connect | Industrials | United Kingdom | 2022 |
| Centriforce | Industrials | United Kingdom | 2024 |
| Consolidated Timber Holdings | Industrials | United Kingdom | 2021 |
| Erodex | Industrials | United Kingdom | 2026 |
| FLSmidth Air Pollution Control | Industrials | United Kingdom | 2025 |
| Jacopa | Industrials | United Kingdom | 2024 |
| O&S Doors | Industrials | United Kingdom | 2023 |
| Park Sheet Metal | Industrials | United Kingdom | 2019 |
| Volvox Group | Industrials | United Kingdom | 2015 |
Realized
2 exits| Company | Sector | Geo | Entry | Exit | Type | Buyer | MOIC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CMD | Industrials | United Kingdom | 2023 | 2024 | Trade Sale | – | |
| Farsound Aviation | Industrials | United Kingdom | 2011 | 2019 | Trade Sale | – |
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