Penta Capital is a private equity fund management company based in Glasgow and London that specializes in buyouts, buyins, and providing later stage development capital primarily to UK and Irish companies. The company was formed in 1999 and is owned and managed by its directors, who make all investment decisions. Penta focuses on businesses with strong management and high growth potential, with a preferred investment size of £5-25 million.

1. PENTA CAPITAL<br />Penta Capital is an independently owned private equity fund management business based in Glasgow and London. Penta specialises in buy-outs, buy-ins and the provision of later stage development capital. Our funds cover the UK and Irish unquoted mid-market and has a preferred investment size in the range of £5m to £25m. Penta is focused on businesses with strong management and high growth potential.<br />Penta Capital was formed in 1999 and is owned and managed by its directors who make all investment decisions. <br />Penta was formed specifically with the aim of exploiting a qualitative gap in the UK mid-market for the provision of private equity. Our ambition is to provide superior returns to our investors through the creation and realisation of a diversified portfolio of high quality private equity investments. <br />LEVERAGE<br />In finance, leverage is a general term for any technique to multiply gains and losses.[1] Common ways to attain leverage are borrowing money, buying fixed assets and using derivatives.[2] Important examples are:<br />A public corporation may leverage its equity by borrowing money. The more it borrows, the less equity capital it needs, so any profits or losses are shared among a smaller base and are proportionately larger as a result.[3]<br />A business entity can leverage its revenue by buying fixed assets. This will increase the proportion of fixed, as opposed to variable, costs, meaning that a change in revenue will result in a larger change in operating income.[4][5]<br />Hedge funds often leverage their assets by using derivatives. A fund might get any gains or losses on $20 million worth of crude oil by posting $1 million of cash as margin.[6]<br />