Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Apax Partners

Apax Partners LLP serves as the holding company in behalf of the worldwide Apax partnership, which in turn serves as the lead investment adviser to the latest Apax Funds. The firm is an independent private equity advisory firm with operations worldwide. The firm technically places its investments in five different growth sectors including retail and consumer, media, technology and telecommunications, healthcare, and financial & business services.

The firm hands over capital for a number of important investors such as private pension funds, university endowments, insurance companies, and other financial institutions. It also purchases both minor and major stakes in huge companies that possess a strong and established position in the market and a good potential to expand.

Moreover, the firm also finances first-rate management teams in order to facilitate well-organized and sustainable businesses that possess a commendable track record of progress as a result of investing in research and development, sales, export, as well as employment.

The firm aims to help companies, management teams, and portfolio company employees to release their full potential in order to generate more returns for the vast number of individuals whose investment plans and pension funds are handed over to the firm’s funds.

The Apax Partners firm focuses its investments in large companies across the five specific aforementioned global growth sectors and has done so for the past 25 years. Staffed by local nationals, the firm’s offices were completed within an average of 13 years. The firm’s advantage in terms of finding new and fresh investment opportunities comes from its close relationships with tough decision makers in every country or location they operate in.

Currently employing an average of 300 workers, Apax Partners is among the small groups involved in the private equity industry to have effectively embraced the challenges of today’s issue of globalization.