Alchemy Partners

Managing Partner Dominic Slade leads the firm and has been central to its investment direction since 1997. He is supported by Deputy Managing Partner Thomas Boszko and a partnership group that includes Ian Cash, Alex Dupée, Alex Leicester, and Toby Westcott. As a small, private partnership, investment authority is concentrated within this senior team.

Alchemy Partners is an asset manager, specifically a private equity and special-situations firm. It manages third-party institutional capital, not a single family’s wealth. The firm advises £2.5 billion in assets on behalf of a large number of blue-chip investors.

Alchemy’s special-situations focus tends to generate proprietary or intermediated opportunities from restructuring advisors, banks selling distressed loan books, and companies seeking rescue capital. Its 14-country European footprint and 220-deal track record built since 1997 provide sourcing relationships across the continent’s restructuring and corporate distress ecosystem.

The firm’s disclosed model is direct investing. It acquires distressed debt, provides capital solutions, and buys equity stakes in private companies. There is no public indication that it operates as a fund-of-funds or makes commitments to external private equity vehicles.

Alchemy’s public materials do not describe a formal co-investment program alongside other sponsors for passive minority positions. Its approach is lead or control-oriented, often taking concentrated positions in complex balance sheets or full equity stakes in buyout situations. Institutional co-investors would typically negotiate co-investment rights directly within fund documentation.