Stirling Square Capital Partners

📢 We are pleased to publish our Sustainability Report for 2023/2024 📢   Our latest report showcases our rigorous engagement with our portfolio companies, investors, and our wider stakeholder universe. 🌍   At Stirling Square, we actively seek feedback for continuous improvement, foster a growth mindset amongst our teams, and remain committed to sustainability as a fundamental driver of value protection and value creation. 🌱   Please read more about our value protection and creation approach and key takeaways from our report here: https://lnkd.in/dHyU9_AE 📈   #Sustainability #ValueProtection #ValueCreation #GrowthMindset #ContinuousImprovement #ActiveEngagement #ambidexterity #StirlingSquare #PrivateEquity

Great to see Elisabetta Ricci at Investec’s Female Leaders Network discussing her career in finance and advice to women aspiring to build their careers in the private equity industry.

  It’s been an eventful first half of the year at Stirling Square.   On the portfolio front: ▪ We successfully completed the take-private of Byggfakta Group with TA Associates and Macquarie Group and sold AD INDUSTRIES to strategic buyer Motherson Group.  ▪ The internationalisation of our businesses has been a priority: ITELYUM (HQ Italy) acquired SAFECHEM and Soledi to enter Germany and France, while Assist24 Group (HQ Sweden) acquired Redning Danmark A/S to expand its footprint across the Nordics. ▪ Additionally, we have driven value creation by advancing our sustainability initiatives, which we will share in our upcoming 2023/2024 Sustainability Report, and by refining our digital transformation capabilities through the formalisation of our in-house developed SaaS handbook.   At the Firm level: ▪ We welcomed investors and management teams to our AGM in London, held our sixth annual CEO Leadership Circle event, and attended multiple global LP conferences, including SuperReturn in Berlin. ▪ We celebrated several well-earned promotions, welcomed back two MBA summer interns as Senior Associates, and bid temporary farewell to two Associates pursuing MBAs at The Wharton School through our inaugural Analyst MBA programme.   Looking ahead to the end of the year, our team remains active, sourcing new pipeline and M&A opportunities across Europe and continuing to work on several ongoing exit processes.

We are excited to welcome Carlos Celestino Esteban and Giorgio Paul Brambilla to Stirling Square. After an outstanding contribution as MBA summer interns during the summer of 2023, we are thrilled to have them officially join us as Senior Associates.  Please join us in welcoming our new team members! #privateequity #recruitment #talent

Congratulations to our Associates Emeline Hervier and Caterina Ragnoli on their acceptance to The Wharton School’s prestigious MBA Programme where they will be enrolling this summer. They are the first cohort to complete our Analyst MBA programme and we are proud of everything they have accomplished since joining Stirling Square Capital Partners. We are excited about them returning to Stirling Square upon graduation and bringing new perspectives to our Firm and Portfolio. #privateequity #talent #MBA

Last week, we welcomed over 50 investors and leaders from across our European portfolio at our 2024 AGM in London. Throughout the morning, we heard from members of our investment teams, senior leadership and the CEOs of Infobric Group, Dan Friberg, and Gestión Tributaria Territorial, Carlos M. Rico Alonso – two investments we made in 2023 that encapsulate how we approach technology investing. We also discussed recent #exits, AD INDUSTRIES and Outcomes First Group, our approach to value creation, and transformational M&A across our portfolio as we continue supporting domestic leaders become European champions.   As we look ahead, we remain excited about the investment opportunity set across Europe.  

The Stirling Square team – Partner Henrik Lif, Principal Christopher Heine, Head of IR Pascal Monteiro de Barros and IR Director Romain WOJTOWICZ – will be at SuperReturn once again this year. We are looking forward to seeing everyone in Berlin! For those of you who will be there – do get in touch.

We are pleased to announce the completion of our sale of AD INDUSTRIES to Motherson Group. As Julien Horreard said when we announced our exit in October 2023, “AD Industries is a European leader in the manufacture of high precision engineered parts and sub-assemblies serving the aerospace & advanced systems and industrial business segments. We are delighted that Motherson has identified AD Industries as the preferred platform to enable it to enter the aero engine components sector. We are proud to have partnered with CEO Evrard Willemaers and his talented management team to support the business expand internationally and diversify its programme offering to customers - many of the world’s leading aerospace & advance systems OEMs. As we complete our investment journey with AD Industries, we wish the company continued success during this exciting next phase.” You can read more about our value creation plan during our ownership from our announcement in October 2023: https://lnkd.in/e8MX_Wah Julien Horreard Faise McClelland

We are delighted to announce the completion of our offer for Swedish construction software leader Byggfakta Group. Stirling Square's Partner, Henrik Lif, said: “Byggfakta will be provided with access to important additional growth capital and operational resources in order to accelerate the long-term delivery of its stated strategy, including additional international M&A. Stirling Square Capital Partners, TA Associates, and Macquarie Capital are very much looking forward to work together with the Byggfakta team to facilitate this journey.” #privateequity #ConTech https://lnkd.in/erABEGjf  

Another milestone moment for our portfolio company ITELYUM with its acquisition of a significant share of Plasta Rei in Italy, which will help to deliver on decarbonisation and circular economy objectives, particularly with regards to special waste. Exciting to see Itelyum’s entry into the plastic chemical recycling market – read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/e8MX_Wah #privateequity #circulareconomy