Grafine Partners and Stanley Capital have formed a significant strategic partnership combining Stanley’s research and technology-driven approach to private equity with Grafine’s ability to meet the evolving needs of sophisticated institutional investors to grow a major new platform in the European private equity landscape.
Stanley Capital is an independent mid-market investment firm focused on growing sustainable businesses in Healthcare, Technology and Resource Efficiency sectors across Europe and the US. The firm was founded by Simon Cottle, James Brooks and Patrick Hargutt, a team that has a proven track record of actively delivering value creation, investing in and managing transactions with equity invested totalling approximately USD3.7 billion. The partners at Stanley Capital have extensive investment experience and have served in leadership roles at firms including Ardian, Centerbridge, Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking, Shell and Lightsource BP.
Grafine is a majority women-led alternative investment firm with a creative approach to investing private capital, providing partner firms like Stanley Capital with scalable access to flexible and strategically aligned capital to meet their needs. Grafine provides institutional investors with direct access to deals and fund investment opportunities that meet their own sophisticated and evolving needs.
