Our Advisory Firm
CapVest Inc. is a Delaware corporation principally located in New York City. The Firm is principally
owned by Seamus FitzPatrick (through a holding company), Kate Briant and Christopher Campbell. The
Firm is under common ownership and control with CapVest Partners LLP (“CapVest LLP”) and CapVest
Irish Partners Limited (“CapVest AIFM”, and together with CapVest Inc., CapVest LLP and their other
affiliates, including their affiliated general partners of the Funds (as defined below), “CapVest”). CapVest
is an investment management firm founded in 1999 that invests in businesses primarily in three key
sectors in which it has developed significant experience and expertise since its founding, namely: (i) staple
consumer goods; (ii) healthcare; and (iii) essential services. Post-acquisition, CapVest seeks to transform
companies through a value creation approach.
Our Advisory Business
CapVest sponsors and manages privately offered investment funds (the “Funds”). The Funds seek to
invest in businesses that meet CapVest’s highly-selective investment criteria and will then seek to utilize
a series of equity value creation initiatives with the aim of transforming the scale and growth profile of
such businesses to build larger, more diversified companies that are repositioned under CapVest
ownership, making them attractive from a range of exit perspectives. Detailed terms, strategies and risks
applicable to investors in the Funds are described in each Fund’s organizational and offering documents
(together, “Operative Documents”). In the case of most Funds, CapVest AIFM is appointed as the
alternative investment fund manager of the Fund pursuant to an alternative investment fund management
agreement entered into by such parties. In such capacity, CapVest AIFM is responsible for the portfolio
management and risk management functions in respect of such Funds. In other cases, the Fund is managed
by its general partner, not by CapVest AIFM.
Pursuant to its investment management agreements with CapVest AIFM and/or the Fund general partner
(as the case may be), CapVest LLP has been delegated certain management functions (including portfolio
management) in respect of the Funds. CapVest LLP, in turn, has entered into a sub-advisory services
agreement with CapVest Inc. pursuant to which CapVest Inc. provides CapVest LLP with investment
advisory services with respect to the Funds’ investment activities. More specifically, under this
subadvisory agreement, CapVest Inc. provides the following services (among others):
i. identifying, procuring, recommending and evaluating investments for possible acquisition or
divestment by each Fund consistent with the investment policy or policies of such Fund and
communicating its advice and recommendations to CapVest LLP;
ii. advising CapVest LLP as to structuring or negotiating the terms of acquisition, holding or disposal
of any investments and formulating and negotiating such terms for consideration by CapVest LLP;
iii. advising CapVest LLP concerning actions and investments that appear to CapVest Inc. to be
advantageous to each Fund in implementing its investment policy;
iv. communicating
(via emails, telephone calls and in-person meetings) to CapVest LLP factual
information and investment recommendations about potential investments and potential portfolio
companies, industries or markets in which any Fund may invest;
v. providing research, analyses or forecasts concerning the prospects of a potential portfolio
company or industry in which any Fund may invest; and
vi. assisting with arranging or effecting the purchase or sale of specific securities or other
investments, including advising as to the structure of any investments and negotiating any
documents related to the purchase of any investments.
In providing such sub-advisory services, the Firm takes into consideration each Fund’s investment
objectives, strategies, restrictions and guidelines (as applicable); however, such services are generally not
tailored to any particular investor in a Fund.
Discussions of the Funds in this Brochure, including but not limited to their investments, the strategies
used in managing the Funds, the fees and other costs associated with an investment in the Funds, and
conflicts of interest faced by CapVest in connection with its management of the Funds, are summaries
intended only to provide required information on our business and practices to our advisory clients, (i.e.,
the Funds). These discussions do not purport to provide investors with a complete description of all
relevant information that they may need to evaluate an investment in a specific Fund. Prospective
investors in a Fund should read that Fund’s Operative Documents for additional information on these
matters. Participation in the Funds is limited to certain eligible investors, as described in Item 7.
In addition, from time to time, CapVest provides some investors, including investors in Funds, strategic
partners and third parties, and some of its employees with opportunities to co-invest in certain investments
alongside a Fund, including through participation in co-investment vehicles formed and controlled by
CapVest. Such co-investment vehicles currently include deal-specific vehicles formed to invest alongside
a Fund in a specific opportunity and co-investment vehicles formed for specific investors that invest
alongside a Fund in multiple opportunities, though CapVest may, in the future, enter into other types of
coinvestment (or similar) arrangements that have different structures. The sub-advisory services provided
by the Firm relate to investment opportunities in which CapVest-controlled co-investment vehicles invest
alongside a Fund; however, the Firm’s sub-advisory services in relation to such opportunities are tailored
to the investment objectives, strategies, restrictions and guidelines (as applicable) of the Funds, and the
coinvestment vehicles do not have separate investment objectives, strategies, restrictions and guidelines
with respect to which the Firm provides tailored investment advice. References herein to “Funds” will be
deemed to include CapVest-controlled co-investment vehicles, as the context may require.
As of December 31, 2023, CapVest Inc. managed a total of $5,924,592,662 of client assets, all of which
is managed on a non-discretionary basis.