LDC Invests in Bullen Healthcare

LDC Invests £13m in Hybrid

June 21, 2021

Marketing & Advertising

LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, has invested £13 million in Bristol-based digital media and marketing agency Hybrid to support organic growth and enable targeted acquisitions. Hybrid, which serves higher education institutions and global technology brands and employs more than 70 people across offices in Bristol, Kuala Lumpur and Sydney, will retain its management team while founder James Craven remains as a Board Director.

LDC Makes Minority Investment in Deltron Group

July 4, 2024

Industrial Services

LDC, the private equity investor part of Lloyds Banking Group, has made a minority growth investment in Dudley-based Deltron Group to support its UK expansion and acquisition-led growth strategy. Deltron, which maintains and repairs elevators, service lifts and stairlifts and employs around 94 people, will use the capital to scale operations, invest in its services and pursue complementary acquisitions.

LDC Makes Growth Investment in Uinsure

February 12, 2024

Financial Services

Private equity firm LDC has made a significant growth investment in Manchester-based insurtech Uinsure to support the company's next phase of expansion. The funding will back Uinsure's technology development, increase market share, develop new markets and grow partnerships with intermediaries, building societies and banks while the existing management team remains in place.

LDC Invests in Panthera Biopartners

August 12, 2025

Healthcare Services

LDC has made a growth investment in Panthera Biopartners, the UK-based Site Management Organisation (SMO) that recruits patients and runs Phase II/III clinical trials, to support the company’s UK and European expansion and capability build-out. The transaction delivers a partial exit for BGF and Gresham House Ventures (with BGF reinvesting as a minority shareholder); senior debt was provided by TDC and LDC will back the existing management team to scale sites and invest in technology.

LDC Invests £18m Minority Stake in TMC Pharma Services

August 24, 2022

Healthcare Services

LDC has made an £18m minority growth investment in TMC Pharma Services to back the company’s international expansion and capability build-out. The capital will support TMC’s plans to expand into the US and Asia, double its number of full-time employees over the next five years and open new offices in key markets.

LDC Makes Minority Growth Investment in The Barrister Group

May 30, 2023

Legal Services

LDC, the private equity investor part of Lloyds Banking Group, has made a minority growth investment in tech‑enabled legal services group The Barrister Group (TBG), backing co‑founders Harry Hodgkin and Stephen Ward and the existing management team. The funding will support recruitment of more barristers and instructions and further investment in TBG's proprietary Chambers365 technology; LDC partners will join the board.