PRINT THIS PAGE Private equity in the uk: the first 25 years30/04/2008. Source: The BVCA – The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.
This year, the BVCA – the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association – celebrates its 25th anniversary. This book looks back at 25 years of private equity history in the UK. Today, Britain is the private equity centre of Europe, and our industry is the second largest worldwide, after the US. In those 25 years we have gone from being little more than a cottage industry into part of the mainstream economy.
When people think of private equity they often associate it with buy-outs of big household names: AA, Boots, Debenhams. But of course the reality is that we are a much broader church than that. Private equity and venture capital are behind the medical diagnostic services we use in hospitals, the chips in our mobile phones, the manufactured components of our cars, the bioethanol fuels that may run them in the future, as well as the latest research into clean technologies that are trying to find solutions to some of the environmental challenges we face.
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The BVCA – The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association – is the industry body for the UK private equity and venture capital industry. With membership of well over 400 members, the organisation represents the overwhelming number of UK-based private equity and venture capital providers and their advisers. The BVCA has 25 years of experience representing the industry, which currently accounts for 57 per cent of the whole of the European market, to government, the European Commission and Parliament, the media, regulatory and other statutory bodies at home, across Europe and around the world. The organisation promotes the industry to entrepreneurs and investors, as well as providing services and best practice standards to members. For more details, visit www.bvca.co.uk.
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