Alchemy Partners

Alchemy Partners

Alchemy Partners was founded in 1997 in London by a group including Managing Partner Dominic Slade. The firm set out to capture risk-adjusted returns in European special situations, building a 25-plus–year track record across 220 transactions. Its mandate covers the full stress spectrum — from providing equity for management buyouts to acquiring distressed debt and leading formal restructurings. The partnership invests across three verticals: distressed debt, capital solutions, and private equity. It moves up and down the capital structure depending on the opportunity, writing equity checks for buyouts while also purchasing distressed positions and providing rescue or refinancing capital. The firm states it has deployed capital in 14 European countries across a broad range of sectors. Funding comes from a roster of institutional limited partners described as blue-chip, and the partnership currently advises £2.5 billion of assets. The leadership group shown on the firm’s website lists 22 professionals, headed by Slade, Deputy Managing Partner Thomas Boszko, and Partner/COO-CFO John Rowland. Other named partners include Ian Cash, Alex Dupée, Alex Leicester, and Toby Westcott. No geographic offices beyond the London headquarters are publicized on the firm’s own materials. Alchemy’s architecture departs from a standard pan-European buyout fund by operating a combined debt-and-equity special-situations mandate within a single partnership. That dual capability — able to buy distressed debt and also take controlling equity stakes through restructurings — gives the firm a structural lane that pure-play private equity managers or standalone credit funds rarely inhabit simultaneously.