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Infrastructure & Logistics

This is core territory for the firm. The businesses are capital-intensive, fragmented, and owner-operated, which is exactly the profile that consolidates well and rarely does on its own. Each operator is sound and sub-scale. The value is in assembly and in the capital structure that supports it.

The owners are usually at a point where the next stage requires money the business cannot fund from cash flow, or where there is no successor and a lifetime of work is locked in the company. We work at both.

This is core consolidation territory for the firm. Capital-intensive, fragmented, owner-operated; we structure the platform and bring the capital.

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Where we engage

Consolidation of owner-run logistics and transport operators into a single platform

Recapitalisations that fund the next stage without forcing a sale

Partner capital for capital-intensive operators that have outgrown their balance sheet

Generational liquidity where there is no successor and value is locked in the business

Structuring and placement with institutional and family-office capital

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Sector coverage

We work across the assets and operators that move goods, data, and people, where contracts and utilisation define value.

Transport Infrastructure

Road, rail, and intermodal assets with concession, access, or contracted revenue characteristics.

Freight & Transport Operators

Road, rail-linked, and intermodal businesses valued on contract tenure, fleet, and lane economics.

Third-Party Logistics & Warehousing

3PL and fulfilment platforms where customer concentration and site control shape the multiple.

Cold Chain

Temperature-controlled storage and transport, a consolidating niche with infrastructure-grade demand.

Ports, Terminals & Marine Services

Concession and service businesses with long-dated cash flows and regulated counterparties.

Shipping Operators

Vessel owners and operators valued on fleet profile, charter coverage, route exposure, and balance-sheet resilience.

Digital Infrastructure

Data centres, fibre, and towers, where capital intensity meets contracted revenue.

Social & Availability-Based Assets

Availability-based assets and the service businesses attached to them.

Waste & Environmental Services

Collection, processing, and resource recovery with municipal and industrial contract books.

Equipment Rental & Leasing

Fleet businesses where utilisation, age profile, and funding structure drive returns.

Aviation & Airport Services

Ground handling and airport service businesses holding concession-like positions.

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What we are seeing

Infrastructure capital is moving down the size curve. Mid-market operators with contracted revenue are being underwritten like assets, and priced accordingly.

Customers are consolidating their supplier lists. Scale, sites, and systems now decide who keeps the contract at renewal.

Digital infrastructure demand is reshaping land, power, and capital at once. Adjacent owners keep discovering their assets are worth more to a different buyer.

Typical Situations

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Several owner-run operators in one corridor or category, each too small to attract institutional money alone.

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A capital-intensive business that needs a recapitalisation to fund its next stage.

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An owner with no successor and most of the family's wealth inside the company.

If this is your position, or that of someone you advise, it is worth a conversation.

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