Charterhouse Capital Partners
Charterhouse Capital Partners is a London-based private equity investment firm focusing on leveraged buyout of established, substantial businesses, based in Western Europe.History
Founded in 1934, Charterhouse Capital Partners is the oldest buyout firm in Britain. The firm's predecessors, then a division of Charterhouse Bank, began raising third party equity in 1976. In June 2001, the firm's management completed a management buyout from its then parent HSBC to become an independent investment firm.
In 2014, the firm acquired SkillSoft, an Irish company that provides cloud-based technology services to governments, businesses, and schools, for $2.3 billion. In 2014, Becky Pritchard wrote in The Wall Street Journal that Charterhouse is a "legendary low-profile firm". In 2015, The Wall Street Journal called Charterhouse Capital Partners "the elder statesman of British private equity, 80 years old and among London's most prestigious and private firms".
