Freshstream
Sophie Broadbent is a Private Equity Associate at Freshstream as of October 2023, previously holding the same position at TZP Group from August 2021 to September 2023. Prior to that, Sophie worked as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Financial Institutions Group at Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank from July 2019 to August 2021. Sophie's early experience includes roles as an Investment Banking Summer Analyst at The Raine Group in June 2018 and multiple summer analyst positions at Jefferies in 2016 and 2017. Sophie holds a degree from Columbia University, attended from 2015 to 2019, and completed education at Convent of the Sacred Heart, 91st Street, from 2000 to 2015.
Freshstream
Freshstream was launched in September 2015. The firm is focused on mid-market investments and looks to invest between €30m and €100m of equity per investment in growth businesses across a wide variety of sectors, with a particular geographic focus on the UK and Benelux markets. Freshstream seeks to acquire majority equity stakes in the companies in which it invests, although it also has the flexibility to invest across their entire capital structures, including in debt and debt-like instruments. Freshstream is focused principally on relationship based, bilateral transactions, being comfortable with highly complicated situations and taking a generally conservative approach to leverage. Although the business is sector-agnostic, looking at each potential investment on its merits, the team has significant prior experience in industries such as healthcare, general manufacturing, financial services, aerospace, branded retail, chemicals, building products and TMT.