Private Equity
Access determines performance. We create it.
Buyouts are drivers of growth, professionalisation and sustainable value creation.
Vaishnavi Katamreddy
Managing Director · Head of Buyout
Where value is proven – and scale becomes possible.
We invest in small- and mid-cap buyouts in Europe and North America, focusing on entry opportunities arising from market inefficiencies, fragmentation, and succession situations. Our focus is on companies with a clear market position, stable cash flows, and a realistic growth trajectory. On this basis, we work with experienced management teams and fund managers to deliver targeted value creation.
Core sectors:
- Technology and Software with predictable, recurring revenues
- Healthcare Services with structural resilience
- B2B Services in fragmented niches
- Specialty Manufacturing with high technical entry barriers
Our objective is to develop mid-sized companies into leading providers in their respective niches.
Substance comes from access.
Our investment approach is built on a strong multi-manager network that we have deliberately developed over many years. Close partnerships with leading buyout managers ensure us continuous access to relevant transactions. This deal flow is the result of active relationship management and disciplined selection – not random market participation.
Investment routes:
- Multi-manager programs as a stable core portfolio
- Co-investments for selective, direct transactions
- Fundless sponsors for entrepreneurial single-asset investments with long-term value creation potential
Access is no coincidence.
Golding has been deeply embedded in the buyout landscape for many years, with close relationships spanning fund managers, entrepreneurs, banks, advisors, and placement agents. This established network enables direct access to proprietary transactions and top-tier managers long before they become visible to the broader market.
Our buyout team knows the markets and the people behind them. For us, direct access is not a promise, but a proven practice.
Maximilian Weissbrodt
Director · Buyout Investments
Shaping value, not just managing it.
We invest in companies that have already proven their strength and work alongside our partners to develop them further through classic buyout levers. Buy-and-build strategies, operational excellence, governance, and succession solutions are at the core of our approach. Value is created through disciplined execution. ESG is an integral part of value creation.
Sustainable investing as a driver of long-term value creation.
Private equity develops portfolio companies strategically over extended periods. We work with managers who deliberately use ESG and sustainability to make their companies more resilient and more profitable — from focusing on products that address global challenges, to robust governance structures and transparent reporting.
Our current private equity (buyout) funds are classified as Article 8 funds under SFDR.
Sustainability-related disclosures
We build on this.
We go where economic success and societal impact come together – because this is where future‑proof business models are created. In this way, impact becomes an integral part of value creation.
3.0
bn €
AuM in private equity
> 25
years of experience in building international portfolios
> 60
fund managers in active dialogue
> 100
co-investments successfully executed and managed
Solutions that move investors forward.
We design solutions that fit our investors. Clear, focused and built with the ambition to create long-term value. Whether through co-investments or tailored specialist mandates, the shared journey is what matters.
Many of our partners have been with us for years. They started with us, grew with us and today invest in a more focused, bolder and more differentiated way. That is our ambition. Make a Difference.
Your team for Private Equity.
Risk notice
- There can be no guarantee that a specific return or earnings target will be achieved. Past returns and forecasts are no guarantee of future success.
- Minority shareholders who are not involved in the management of a buyout fund have no or only limited influence over the fund manager.
- At buyout fund level, the use of not inconsiderable debt financing (leverage) is often permitted and customary. Although the use of leverage can improve performance, it also increases the potential for loss.
- The market values of buyout funds may be subject to significant fluctuations due to macroeconomic factors and/or other changing market conditions.
- Buyout funds are usually unregulated investment vehicles that offer only limited investor protection.
- The investor bears the risk of the tax and regulatory structure of the buyout funds and the investments made.
- By realising risks, investors in buyout funds may suffer losses in value up to the amount of the total loss of the invested capital.
Detailed risk information can be found in the issue document of the respective investment programs.