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Phoenix Equity Partners

UK companies whose Companies House control chain resolves to Phoenix Equity Partners, via 14 matched control vehicles. Two views: every company where the firm is a significant-control PSC, and the narrower set it majority-controls.

Phoenix Equity Partners is a London-based private equity firm. It was founded in 2001 and backs founder-led, growing businesses in Western Europe, with a focus on data and analytics, technology and specialist services, and health and wellbeing. It typically invests equity cheques of about £10 million to £80 million.

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Majority control

≥50% shares/votes or board control

£226m

turnover · full accounts of controlled companies

Companies
224
Employees
1,958
PBT
£-15m

All disclosed control

incl. minority (≥25%) PSC stakes

£255m

turnover · 249 companies

Employees
2,108
With accounts
14 (6%)

Control structure

Majority control · top platforms by turnover · 224 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 · 13 have filed accounts

Company PSC control Turnover PBT Emp.
SETFORDS LAW LTD controlled via 5 hops · every link ≥50% 75–100% £63m £10m 176
PRIME TOPCO LIMITED controlled via 5 hops · every link ≥75% 75–100% £51m £-8m 155
SPYDER HOLDCO LIMITED controlled directly · every link ≥50% 50–75% £28m £-13m 280
FUTUREMEDS LTD controlled via 5 hops · every link ≥25% 75–100% £27m £2m 397
4MOST (EUROPE) LIMITED controlled via 6 hops · every link ≥75% 75–100% £24m £8m 215
DUFRAIN CONSULTING LTD controlled via 6 hops · every link ≥75% 75–100% £13m £-1m 157
SMH HOLDINGS LTD controlled via 5 hops · every link ≥50% 75–100% £11m £2m 137
UNIVERSALLY SPEAKING TOPCO LIMITED controlled directly · every link ≥50% 50–75% £10m £-14m 436
CAPITAL ECONOMICS RESEARCH LIMITED controlled via 6 hops · every link ≥25% 75–100% — £-18,078 5

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 Phoenix Equity 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 13 of 224 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.