Straight answers about working with Oldham Group.
Below are the questions owners, founders, and advisers most often ask. If yours is not here, the fastest answer is a quick call or message.
Oldham Group is a UK-based private investment and advisory group. It acquires stakes in, backs, and advises established companies — providing patient capital and strategic counsel to founders, families, and management teams across the United Kingdom and, through its affiliated operating company, the United Arab Emirates.
No. Oldham Group is a privately held group that invests its own balance sheet, rather than a fund managing third-party capital on a fixed investment period. That structure is the point: it lets us hold for the long term without pressure to return capital to fund investors on a set schedule.
We focus on established, profitable UK small and mid-market companies with a genuine competitive position and a capable team in place. We look for businesses we can understand deeply and support patiently — not speculative bets.
Six core sectors: Technology & Software, Professional & Business Services, Real Estate & Property, Healthcare & Wellness, Industrial & Manufacturing, and Consumer & Retail. Within these, we look for defensible economics, loyal customers, and room to build over time.
Both. We lead majority acquisitions and also take significant minority positions where a founder wants to retain a meaningful stake. Equity structures are flexible — including roll-over and earn-out arrangements where they help continuity — and are designed around the owner's goals.
We underwrite to hold for the long term, not to exit on a fixed schedule. Because we invest our own capital and have no fund deadline, we are free to be patient — to reinvest through cycles and to support a business over years and decades.
Strategic advisory is a distinct service, available to portfolio and non-portfolio companies alike. Terms depend on the scope of work and are agreed up front. The simplest way to understand likely cost is to describe your situation in a first conversation.
Yes. Our advisory practice serves boards, owners, and founders independently of any investment. We regularly advise companies we do not back, with the same rigour and the same bias toward the client's interests — including advising against a transaction when that is the right answer.
Start with a conversation. Call us on 050 168 5444, message us on WhatsApp, or email info@oldhamgroup.net. An introductory call is confidential and carries no obligation; from there, we will explain next steps if there is a mutual fit.
Yes. Confidentiality and discretion are central to how we work. Early discussions are handled privately, and appropriate confidentiality arrangements are put in place before any detailed or sensitive information is shared.
Oldham Group is based in London, United Kingdom, and is active across the UK. Its affiliated operating company is European Technical, a licensed home and property maintenance business serving Dubai and the wider UAE — find it at europeantechnical.ae.
The fastest route is a call to 050 168 5444 or a message on WhatsApp. You can also email info@oldhamgroup.net or use our contact form, and we will respond within one business day.