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Vespa Capital

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Vespa Capital is a leading private equity investor in the UK lower mid-market.

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01.01.2007

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Vespa Capital, a lower mid-market private equity firm, partners with ambitious management teams to support recapitalizations and management buyouts of privately-owned businesses in the UK with an Enterprise Value between £10m - £75m. With a focus on differentiated, resilient businesses, Vespa Capital leverages its international investment experience, expertise, and network to support growth. The company's unique Entrepreneur network, comprising C-suite executives and industrialists, provides tailored assistance and promotes expansion opportunities. Founded in 2007 by Nigel Hammond, Vespa Capital manages the Vespa Capital Fund III, which invests in business products and services and information technology sectors in France and the UK.
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Nigel Hammond
Nigel Hammond

Nigel Hammond

An Engineer and Chartered Accountant, Nigel's private equity experience covers more than two decades and has involved investing in companies based in many European countries facing most of the organic and acquisitive growth challenges that businesses are ever likely to encounter. From 1990 to 1995 he worked for 3i, from 1995 to 2006 for Montagu Private Equity and founded Vespa Capital in 2007. Since 1995 he has been involved in 30 transactions that have required over £1 billion of invested capital and returned over 2.5 times money invested and an average IRR of over 35%. Members of the management teams of almost all of the deals that Nigel was involved in at Montagu and 3i have invested in the Vespa Capital funds. Nigel and his wife Sarah are patrons of the Prince's Trust and the NSPCC.

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Vespa Capital
Vespa Capital

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Nigel Hammond

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Chris Harp

Chris Harp

Investment Manager

Nigel Hammond

Nigel Hammond

Co-Founder, Managing Partner

Tom Chaloner

Tom Chaloner

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