Acquisitions & ownership succession
We buy established, owner-led companies from founders who want a careful, well-capitalised successor — and keep doing what made the business good in the first place.
Private Holdings · Investment · Advisory — London & Dubai
A private house for companies, capital, and counsel.
Farrowgate is a UK-based private holdings and advisory group. We acquire established companies from the owners who built them, back growing businesses with patient capital, and advise on the decisions that shape them — privately, and for the long term.
Principal officeLondon, UK
Operating officeDubai, UAE
CapitalPrincipal — long horizon
Who we are
We buy, back, and advise the companies other people built — and look after them properly.
Farrowgate is a privately held group, not a fund with a clock. We bring our own capital, our own operators, and a long holding horizon to every relationship. That lets us move quietly, decide quickly, and stay involved long after a transaction closes.
We work in three connected ways: through our holdings arm we acquire companies and run them well; through our investment arm we back growing businesses with patient equity; and through our advisory arm we help owners think through the decisions that shape a company's future.
Read our storyWhat we do
Three ways we work with owners and capital.
Venture & growth capital
We back ambitious companies with patient equity and hands-on help — capital that doesn't force an early exit, from people who have built and operated businesses themselves.
Strategic advisory
Plain, senior counsel for owners weighing a sale, a succession, a capital raise, or a change of direction — informed by the fact that we invest and operate ourselves.
Portfolio stewardship
Owning a company is the beginning, not the end. We help the businesses we own invest, hire, and improve — strengthening them over years, not quarters.
Principal & co-investment
We invest our own capital and invite trusted partners, founders and family offices to invest alongside us on aligned terms — no manufactured urgency, no misaligned incentives.
International expansion — UK & GCC
We help portfolio and partner companies move between the United Kingdom and the Gulf — opening doors, setting up, and navigating both markets from our London and Dubai base.
How we work
A careful way of doing business.
Private discussions, quick decisions, and a partnership that continues well beyond completion.
01
Understand
We meet the owner, learn the business in its own terms, and understand what they want next — for the company, the team, and themselves.
02
Assess
We do our diligence quietly and on our own account — quickly enough to respect an owner's time, thoroughly enough to be sure.
03
Agree
We work towards terms that fit the business and the people in it — not just the headline price — and we keep our word.
04
Steward
After the handover we stay: investing, supporting, and helping the company grow on a horizon measured in years.
Where we focus
Sectors we know well.
We concentrate where our operators have real experience, across the UK and the Gulf.
Property & technical
Home & technical services
Maintenance, technical trades and property services — the field of our UAE operating company, European Technical.
Trade & industrial
Trade & industrial services
Established B2B service businesses with skilled workforces, recurring contracts and room to consolidate and grow.
Building & facilities
Building & facilities
Facilities management, fit-out and trades businesses serving owners and occupiers across commercial property.
Consumer & heritage
Consumer & heritage brands
Distinctive brands and makers with a story worth preserving and the potential to reach new markets and customers.
Professional services
Professional & business services
Knowledge-led practices and consultancies where reputation and people matter more than scale alone.
Hospitality
Hospitality & leisure
Hotels, serviced accommodation and hospitality ventures, with a particular interest in the Gulf market.
Why Farrowgate
What you get from a house, not a fund.
The difference shows up in how decisions are made, how long we stay, and how much of our own capital is at risk alongside yours.
Our philosophyPatience
We hold for the long term. There is no fund clock forcing a sale, so decisions favour the company, not the calendar.
Operators
We have built and run companies ourselves. The conversation includes someone who knows the operational reality.
Discretion
We work privately and confidentially. Most of what we do never appears in a press release, by design.
Alignment
We invest our own principal capital on the same terms, so our interests and an owner's point the same way.
The group
“We operate as well as invest. In the Gulf, that means running European Technical — and learning from it every day.”
A single group across two markets: London for capital and counsel, Dubai for operations and the wider Gulf.
UAE operating company
European Technical
Our affiliated home and technical-services company in Dubai — a licensed UAE maintenance and technical-services operator and the working face of the group in the Gulf.
Visit europeantechnical.aeQuestions
Plain answers, before we've met.
Farrowgate is a UK-based private holdings, investment and advisory group. It does three things: acquires established companies from their owners, provides venture and growth capital to growing businesses, and advises owners on succession, exits and capital decisions — investing its own principal capital with a long holding horizon.
It is a private holdings group rather than a fund. The difference matters: Farrowgate invests its own capital, holds companies for the long term rather than to a fixed fund life, and operates the businesses it owns alongside the teams that run them.
The focus is established, owner-led companies in property and technical services, trade and industrial services, building and facilities, consumer and heritage brands, professional services and hospitality — primarily across the United Kingdom and the Gulf.
Farrowgate has its principal office in London, United Kingdom, and an operating office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where its affiliated operating company European Technical is based.
Email info@farrowgate.net, call +971 50 168 5444, or message on WhatsApp. Initial discussions are private and handled under a confidentiality agreement where appropriate.
A conversation
Considering selling, scaling, or seeking counsel?
Tell us where the business is today and where you'd like it to go. We'll listen first, in confidence, and tell you plainly whether and how we can help.