Downing Development Capital
Downing Development Capital is an award-winning investor focused on investment opportunities into asset-backed operating businesses with downside protection. Typical sectors we look at include healthcare, specialist education, hospitality, leisure and IT infrastructure.
Healthcare and specialist education represent two key areas in which we have deep sector knowledge and which are fundamental to our investment strategy. Downing has been an investor in the healthcare sector since 1997. We partner with highly experienced management teams to help them grow their businesses and provide exceptional care and education to vulnerable people in our society.
Downing Development Capital
With its successful track record, Downing's Development Capital team provides access to a wide network and specialist knowledge across healthcare and specialist education. Our time-tested approach can achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns with strong downside protection.
The Development Capital team also invest in other sectors in addition to healthcare and specialist education, for example, hospitality, leisure and IT infrastructure.
Specialist team
14 investment professionals
Subsectors
elderly care, specialist adult care, supported living, specialist education, primary care
Track record
44 investments completed
14 exited since 2012*
c.£350m*
invested since 2012
*as at March 2023
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