Carnegie Capital Estates
A new private secondary school
Sun Capital acquired a site in Banbury Road, Oxford for the development of a new private secondary school.
Complete development of new private secondary school in Oxford.
Investments
CenterParcs
Acquisition and management
Sun Capital bought the four UK CenterParcs for £465 million after a fire destroyed the main complex at the Elveden site.
Ownership of the real estate from 2002-06, completely rebuilding the Elveden site following a fire and investment in new facilities throughout the villages.
Dayinsure
UK motor insurance group
Integrated insurance group focused on £16bn UK motor market
The group controls more than £200m of annual premium across its distribution and underwriting businesses, which include Dayinsure, the UK’s leading provider of temporary motor insurance.
Hillcrest
UK private equity real estate investment business
UK private equity real estate investment business
Founded a Private Equity Real Estate Investment Business with an initial £250m to deploy.
Hillcrest has a targeted two-year investment period with flexibility in terms of asset classes and can invest across the capital structure.
Integrated Dental Holdings
Acquisition and management
Sun Capital acquired Integrated Dental Holdings and subsequently grew the business into one of the largest NHS dentistry providers in the UK
Formation and rapid expansion to grow into one of the largest NHS dentistry providers in the UK prior to our exit in 2006.
Keepmoat
Acquisition and growth
Keepmoat is the UK’s largest partnership housebuilder
UK’s largest partnership-focused housebuilder and top 10 UK housebuilder providing high quality mixed-tenure housing for first time buyers outside the London market. During our ownership revenue more than tripled and the business grew to sell c.4,000 affordable homes per year.
Luxury Assisted Living
Joint Venture with leading provider in the UK
Joint Venture with leading provider in the UK
In 2021 SCP formed a joint venture with a leading developer and operator of luxury retirement communities in the UK. SCP and its partner work together to acquire development sites, obtain planning consent for new retirement communities and then sell the site with the benefit of an implementable planning consent.
Phoenix Group
Acquisition, management and growth
Sun Capital and TDR Capital purchased the closed life insurance businesses of HHG plc in 2005 for £1.1 billion.
Innovation in the UK’s life insurance market, creating the first European wide consolidator of Life Insurance back books, now the largest FTSE quoted life insurance consolidator in Europe.
PizzaExpress
Acquisition, turnaround and growth
PizzaExpress was a franchise with no means of expansion.
Creation of the first UK nationwide sit-down casual dining chain from 1993-1998, becoming UK’s largest quoted restaurant group.
Punch Taverns
Acquisition, turnaround and growth
Punch Group was floated in 2002 with an enterprise value of £3.5 billion.
Total disruption of the UK pub market with creation of first retailer-led, non-brewery-owned pub chain in 1998, growing it into the UK’s largest pub company.
Uro Property Holdings
A real estate investment trust
Sun Capital founded Uro Property Holdings and completed the €2.2 billion sale and leaseback of Santander's entire freehold branch network in Spain at the time.
Sale and leaseback of Santander’s entire freehold branch network in Spain at the time and subsequent formation of a listed REIT.
Vertical Aerospace
Vertical Aerospace
Raised over $300m on NYSE through a SPAC and merged with Vertical Aerospace (ticker EVTL). Vertical Aerospace has created the most advanced electronic vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft in the world, which is revolutionising urban air mobility and electrifying air travel.
Wellington Pub Co.
Acquisition, management and growth
In 1997, Sun Capital acquired a portfolio of over 800 pubs from Phoenix Inns Ltd.
Freehold estate of over 800 pubs, achieving the first leased pub securitization in 1998.