Beechbrook Capital
Nick Fenn currently serves as an Investment Committee Member at Beechbrook Capital since July 2022, where the firm specializes in providing term finance to companies valued between £10 million and £100 million and has completed over 100 investments in 14 years. Additionally, Nick is an Advisory Board Member for a newly formed M&A Advisory Board at Commercial Services Group starting in June 2024. Previously, Nick held the position of Managing Partner at Beechbrook Capital from 2008 to 2022 and was a Managing Director at Mizuho Corporate Bank from December 1999 to September 2007. Nick Fenn earned a Master of Arts degree in Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics from the University of Cambridge between 1983 and 1987.
Beechbrook Capital
Founded in 2008, Beechbrook is one of the most experienced and successful European private debt managers with over 1.1 billion Euros raised to date across eight funds and two distinct strategies. We provide mainly private debt (and small allocation of equity co-investments) to performing lower mid-market businesses in northern and western Europe (UK & Ireland, Nordics, Benelux, DACH and Poland). We often fill a funding gap faced by SMEs as banks are less active in the space than they have been historically and we benefit from extensive relationships with private equity firms, corporate finance houses and banks, helping us to originate strong deal flow and high quality investment opportunities. Beechbrook supports company growth strategies, add-ons and private equity buy-outs and focuses on companies with an enterprise value of between €10m to €150m in the following sectors: business services, media and telecoms, industrials, healthcare and consumer & leisure. Investment bite sizes range from €2m to €25m and we have made over 75 investments in the European lower mid-market. Our investors include leading institutional investors, family offices, HNWIs, British Business Bank Investment Limited and the European Investment Fund. Beechbrook is currently investing two funds with distinct strategies: the Private Debt Funds provide debt to private equity-owned companies across northern Europe and the UK SME Credit Funds provide debt to owner-managed and family-owned companies in the UK.