written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . october 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message sovereign capital llp type private ownership limited partnership industry private equity founded 2001 headquarters london england key people andrew hayden founder and managing partner michael needley founder and dominic dalli david myers matthew owen and kevin whittle products private equity funds total assets 650m website sovereigncapital.co.uk established in 2001 sovereign capital partners llp is a uk based private equity specialist investing in the support service companies in the healthcare services and education & training sectors . sovereign has 650m of funds under management . the firm invests up to 50m of capital in each business partnering management teams to help them achieve significant growth through both organic roll out and acquisition . 1 alongside this sovereign s in house research team helps portfolio companies to source strategic acquisitions that will extend the company s service offering and geographic coverage . sovereign capital is the most active mid market investor in the healthcare services sector . the firm has also been actively investing in the education and training sector since 2002 and have committed 230m to its education portfolio february 2013 . 2 the business has supported the growth strategies of some of the fastest growing companies in the uk as recognised in the sunday times buyout track 100 and the sunday times buyout fast track 100 . companies include city & county healthcare group 3 national fostering agency 4 and lifetime . 5 contents 1 awards 2 investments include 3 references 4 external links awards edit sovereign is well recognised by a number of industry awards for its work in its areas of sector expertise including investor of the year for the third consecutive year at the education investor awards 2012 ; 6 finalist for investor of the year at the 2013 healthinvestor awards for the third year running ; 7 winner of the independent specialist care awards 2013 . 8 investments include edit city & county healthcare group a uk domiciliary care businesses . the group provides 140 000 hours of personal support per week to people in their own homes . 9 cordium previously ims group a provider of consulting and integrated business support to the wholesale asset management and securities industry . the group s core service offering is regulatory compliance consulting to uk and international regulated financial services firms . 10 lifetime a vocational training provider offering pre employment training apprenticeship programmes and training courses to people in the fitness retail care and hospitality industries . 11 creare group web development seo company . 12 references edit company overview of sovereign capital partners llp . bloomberg businessweek . retrieved 11 june 2013 . sovereign capital completes the acquisition of three leading independent london sixth form colleges . acq magazine . retrieved 10 june 2013 . 2012 buyout track 100 . fast track the sunday times city & county healthcare group . retrieved 10 june 2013 . 2011 buyout track 100 . fast track the sunday times national fostering agency . retrieved 10 june 2013 . 2011 buyout track 100 . fast track the sunday times lifetime . retrieved 10 june 2013 . educationinvestor awards 2012 pdf . educationinvestor . retrieved 11 june 2013 . healthinvestor awards 2013 . healthinvestor . retrieved 11 june 2013 . sovereign capital named investor of the year at independent specialist care awards . kndu.com . retrieved 11 june 2013 . company overview of city & county healthcare group ltd . bloomberg businessweek . retrieved 11 june 2013 . ims rebrands itself as cordium . cooconnect peer group network . retrieved 11 june 2013 . http www.sovereigncapital.co.uk our portfolio education training lifetime http creare.co.uk external links edit official website v t e private equity and venture capital investment firms investment strategy venture growth mezzanine secondaries leveraged buyout history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s investors angel investor corporate venture capital commercial bank crowdfunding institutional investor insurance company investment bank endowment family office fund of funds high net worth individual merchant bank pension fund sovereign wealth fund private equity firms venture capital firms portfolio companies v t e largest private equity investment firms 3i group aac capital partners advent international alpinvest partners american capital apax partners apollo global management ares management bain capital bc partners berkshire partners the blackstone group bridgepoint capital candover the carlyle group ccmp capital cerberus capital management charterhouse capital partners cinven clayton dubilier & rice cvc capital partners doughty hanson & co encap investments eqt partners first reserve corporation fortress investment group general atlantic goldman sachs capital partners gtcr hellman & friedman h.i.g. capital jrk property holdings kkr trilantic capital partners leonard green & partners madison dearborn partners nordic capital oak investment partners oaktree capital management onex teachers private capital pacific equity partners pai partners permira providence equity partners sentinel capital partners silver lake partners summit partners sun capital partners ta associates terra firma capital partners thomas h. lee partners tpg capital warburg pincus welsh carson anderson & stowe private equity private equity firms venture capital firms portfolio companies this article about a private equity or venture capital firm based in the united kingdom is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sovereign capital & oldid 667942840 categories private equity firms of the united kingdomcompanies established in 1988private equity firm stubsunited kingdom financial services company stubshidden categories articles with a promotional tone from october 2013all articles with a promotional toneall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 21 june 2015 at 15 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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