The questions owners and advisors ask us.

Silverleaf Group is a London-based private holdings and investment group. We acquire, invest in, and advise exceptional businesses, using patient, permanent capital rather than a timed fund. Our group also includes European Technical, a licensed Dubai technical-services company, as an operating business.

A private holdings group owns companies for the long term. Unlike a fund that must sell within a set period, a holdings group can keep, strengthen, and reinvest in its businesses indefinitely. Silverleaf Group acquires companies outright, provides growth and succession capital, and advises owners — all with the freedom to hold for decades.

We focus on profitable, founder-led companies with a defensible position in their market — typically in professional and business services, specialist manufacturing, health and wellness, technical and trade services, property, and consumer brands. We look for a genuine edge, a capable team, and earnings that can compound over time.

No. Private equity funds are usually structured to buy and sell companies within a fixed window, which pushes decisions toward a fast exit. Silverleaf Group uses permanent capital with no mandated end-date, so we can hold businesses for decades and partner with founders rather than trading companies in and out of a portfolio.

Indefinitely, where the business keeps compounding. There is no exit timer. We reinvest earnings, support growth, and only sell a company when doing so genuinely serves the business and its people.

Our focus is established, profitable companies rather than early-stage startups. We can, however, back later-stage growth opportunities through our Invest & Back arm, where a business has proven its model and is ready to scale with a patient partner.

We work with established small and mid-sized companies — businesses that are profitable, have a real market position, and a team in place. We're flexible on size and far more interested in the quality, durability, and people behind a business than in any single threshold.

Yes. Many of our partnerships are with founders who want to keep building but seek a patient capital partner, or who are planning succession over time. We can structure a full handover or long-term shared ownership, depending on what the owner wants.

Growth capital funds a business's expansion — new markets, hires, equipment, or acquisitions — beyond what retained earnings allow. Succession capital lets a departing owner realise value while the business and its people continue. Silverleaf Group provides both, structured to the owner's goals and timeline.

Yes. Unlike a firm that earns fees from transactions, our advisory is not driven by a need to sell you something. We advise on succession, exits, acquisitions, and capital with the owner's interest first — and we're clear when the best advice is to do nothing.

We are based in London and active across the United Kingdom and Europe, with portfolio interests in the United Arab Emirates — including our operating company European Technical, in Dubai. We will consider opportunities further afield where the business and the people are exceptional.

Call us on 050 168 5444 (+971 50 168 5444), message us on WhatsApp, or email info@silverleafgroup.net. Every enquiry is confidential and begins with a no-obligation discussion. We're happy to work through your advisors and to put an NDA in place before any details are shared.