Majority control
≥50% shares/votes or board control
£32m
turnover · full accounts of controlled companies
- Companies
- 98
- Employees
- 132
- PBT
- £8m
UK-visible control · private-equity firm
Cinven
UK companies whose Companies House control chain resolves to Cinven, via 27 matched control vehicles. Two views: every company where the firm is a significant-control PSC, and the narrower set it majority-controls.
Cinven is a London-based private equity firm founded in 1977. It invests internationally, בעיקר in Europe and the United States, with a focus on buyouts and growth opportunities across business services, consumer, financial services, healthcare, industrials and technology, media and telecommunications. The firm says it has raised more than €50bn in total funds.
All disclosed control
incl. minority (≥25%) PSC stakes
£816m
turnover · 183 companies
- Employees
- 1,811
- With accounts
- 21 (11%)
Control structure
Majority control · top platforms by turnover · 98 companies controlled in total
- Cinven
- 75–100% OBJECTWAY LIMITED £27m · 122 staff
- 75–100% CINVEN BEAVERBROOK LIMITED £5m · 7 staff
- 75–100% PLATINUM ACQUISITION LIMITED — · 3 staff
- 75–100% PLATINUM NEWCO III LIMITED
- 75–100% CINVEN FOUNDATION —
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 · 7 have filed accounts
| Company | PSC control | Turnover | PBT | Emp. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OBJECTWAY LIMITED controlled directly · every link ≥75% | 75–100% | £27m | £5m | 122 |
| CINVEN BEAVERBROOK LIMITED controlled directly · every link ≥75% | 75–100% | £5m | — | 7 |
| PLATINUM ACQUISITION LIMITED controlled via 3 hops · every link ≥75% | 75–100% | — | £2m | 3 |
| CINVEN FOUNDATION controlled directly · every link ≥75% | 75–100% | — | £709 | — |
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 Cinven'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 7 of 98 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.