BREGAL CAPITAL LLP

Bregal Capital LLP is a London based private equity firm with approximately €2.8 billion of committed funds to date, making private equity investments in buyout and development capital. Bregal targets equity investments of up to €150 million in middle market companies.

The firm was established in 2002 and recently raised its third private equity fund, Bregal Capital Fund III, of €1 billion.

Bregal seeks to make investments in companies which it can hold for a number of years while the businesses grow and increase in value. This provides for a stable environment for growing companies, like Aurigen, to develop and plan for the long-term without being constantly pressured to manage earnings or demonstrate short term performance. An important part of Englefield's philosophy is to utilize the capital, experience, skills and relationships of the firm to support portfolio companies, where appropriate, where growth is a key source of value creation.

Although Bregal is a generalist fund, it has a strong focus on financial services. Since 2002, the firm has invested in numerous financial companies, including an international non-life insurance company based in the Lloyd's market in London, a leading UK motor insurance company, an East European lending and insurance business and a Swedish mortgage company.