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Apax Partners

UK companies whose Companies House control chain resolves to Apax Partners, via 6 matched control vehicles. Two views: every company where the firm is a significant-control PSC, and the narrower set it majority-controls.

Apax Partners LLP is a London-based private equity firm, founded in 1972. It invests globally across technology, internet/consumer and services, with strategies including buyouts, growth capital and credit; it says it has raised and advised about US$77bn in funds.

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Majority control

≥50% shares/votes or board control

£77m

turnover · full accounts of controlled companies

Companies
16
Employees
219
PBT
£5m

All disclosed control

incl. minority (≥25%) PSC stakes

£77m

turnover · 23 companies

Employees
219
With accounts
3 (13%)

Control structure

Majority control · top platforms by turnover · 16 companies controlled in total

Platforms are the firm's accounts-filing holdings; figures are their (consolidated) turnover. Subsidiaries beneath them are already inside that total — shown for structure, not added again.

Largest UK holdings (2026)

Majority control · by turnover · 3 have filed accounts

Company PSC control Turnover PBT Emp.
APAX PARTNERS UK LTD controlled directly · every link ≥75% 75–100% £50m £5m 149
HERJAVEC GROUP LIMITED controlled directly · every link ≥75% 75–100% £23m £-99,166 49
APAX PARTNERS FUND SERVICES LTD controlled directly · every link ≥75% 75–100% £5m £237,915 21

How this is built — and its limits

  • Control, not ownership. PSC filings disclose significant control (≥25% shares/votes, board rights, significant influence) — not economic ownership. We never assert a cap table.
  • "PSC control" is a band, not an exact stake. Companies House discloses control only in ranges (25–50%, 50–75%, 75–100%), and we show the stronger of the share or voting band on the holding's nearest disclosed edge — the firm's own stake for directly-held companies, the immediate intermediate's for those held through a chain. A band below 50% (or a blank —) here means control rests on board-appointment rights or significant influence rather than a majority shareholding — common in PE structures.
  • Every holding is chain-verified. The line under each company ("controlled via N hops · every link ≥X%") is the shortest PSC control chain we found from Apax Partners's vehicles down to it — each hop a real Companies House disclosure. Where a company is also controlled by another tracked firm, that's flagged inline.
  • Full accounts, not apportioned. A controlled company's figures are counted in full, not scaled by stake. A jointly-controlled asset counts fully under each controller.
  • No double-counting. Where a consolidated parent and its subsidiaries both file, only the topmost is counted.
  • Coverage is a floor. Only 3 of 16 majority-controlled companies file detailed accounts in our enriched set, so totals understate the true portfolio.
  • UK-visible only. Chains that exit to Jersey, Guernsey or other registries terminate there — we can't follow beyond the UK.