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Rubicon Partners

Rubicon Partners

London, United Kingdom·Founded 1993··rubiconpartners.com

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.

AUM
€383M
Funds
1
vintages 1993
Portfolio
12
Exits
2
SectorsIndustrialsBusiness Services

Key facts

HQLondon, United Kingdom
Founded1993

Recent exits

CMD
Industrials · 2024 · 1yr hold
Farsound Aviation
Industrials · 2019 · 8yr hold

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.

1 fund
Rubicon PartnersEvergreen
1993 · 33yr€383M12 active · 2 realized

Unrealized

12 held
AiredaleActive
IndustrialsUnited Kingdom· Entry 2021
AquamainActive
Business ServicesUnited Kingdom· Entry 2018
AvoveActive
Business ServicesUnited Kingdom· Entry 2022
IndustrialsUnited Kingdom· Entry 2022
IndustrialsUnited Kingdom· Entry 2024
IndustrialsUnited Kingdom· Entry 2021
ErodexActive
IndustrialsUnited Kingdom· Entry 2026
IndustrialsUnited Kingdom· Entry 2025
JacopaActive
IndustrialsUnited Kingdom· Entry 2024
O&S DoorsActive
IndustrialsUnited Kingdom· Entry 2023
IndustrialsUnited Kingdom· Entry 2019
IndustrialsUnited Kingdom· Entry 2015

Realized

2 exits
CMDExited 2024
IndustrialsUnited Kingdom· Entry 2023
Trade Saleto
IndustrialsUnited Kingdom· Entry 2011
Trade Saleto
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Last updated June 2026 · Sourced from public filings