Capital across the structure
Equity, structured equity and private credit. We take minority or majority positions in profitable businesses with hard assets, permits and defensible market positions.
London · Private investment
Capital for the industrial base behind national resilience.
Colbridge Atlas is a London based private investment firm backed by institutional and family office capital. We originate, underwrite and fund investments in recycling, energy and industrials, with a deliberate alignment to defence and critical national infrastructure supply chains.
RecyclingResource recovery, secondary raw materials and permitted infrastructure.
EnergySupply, generation and efficiency assets with contracted cash flows.
IndustrialsPrecision manufacturing, fabrication and engineered services.
DefenceSustainment of in service fleets: MRO, obsolescence and reverse engineering.
The firm
We invest where physical capability matters more than narrative.
Colbridge Atlas operates deal by deal. Every transaction is underwritten on its own merits and funded with capital raised specifically for it, from a network of institutional investors, family offices and specialist lenders who know our sectors.
That model gives our counterparties three things a blind pool cannot: a genuine alignment of interest on each asset, the flexibility to structure around what a business actually needs, and the discipline that comes from having to justify every deal to capital on its own terms.
We work most often with founder led and family owned businesses at the point where the next stage of growth requires capital, structure and an institutional partner who understands regulated industrial operations.
Capital formation
Equity, preferred and junior capital raised transaction by transaction from a mapped investor base, with no blind pool and no fund clock.
Debt arrangement
A dedicated capability arranging senior, unitranche and asset backed facilities, both for our own transactions and on a standalone advisory basis.
Investment criteria
What we look for in a transaction.
£2m – £100mEBITDA
£10m – £250mEquity ticket
UK & EuropeCore geography
Minority & majorityPosition
We take minority and majority positions and co underwrite alongside institutional partners on larger transactions. We are not a pure equity investor: we invest across the capital structure and will take the instrument the situation calls for.
EquityMajority, joint control and structured minority positions.
Structured equityPreferred, convertible and hybrid instruments with downside protection.
Private creditJunior, mezzanine and holdco debt, including warranted structures.
Asset backedFacilities secured on plant, receivables, inventory and real estate.
Strategy
Four sectors, one thesis.
Recycling, energy and industrials are usually treated as separate stories. We underwrite them as one: the domestic capability required to keep material, power and manufactured components flowing when supply chains are under strain.
Defence is a principal driver of our industrials investment. The increase in European defence expenditure flows less to new platforms than to keeping existing fleets in service, and that demand lands squarely on the machining, fabrication and repair base we already back.
We also run a dedicated defence strategy covering maintenance, repair and overhaul, obsolescence management, and the reverse engineering of out of production components for government programmes, delivered with an established US partner.
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