- CEO
- Benoît Laurent Pierre Durteste
- Full Time Employees
- - -
- Sector
- Miscellaneous
- Industry
- Investment trusts
- Address
- Procession House London GL United Kingdom EC4M 7JW
- IPO Date
- Jan 2, 1986
- Business
- ICG Enterprise Trust PLC (LSE:ICGT) is a UK-listed investment company focused exclusively on private equity buyouts in profitable, cash-generative mid-market companies across North America and Europe. The company invests both indirectly through private equity funds managed by ICG and other leading managers, including commitments to funds such as THL, New Mountain Capital, Advent, and Stone Point's Trident 10; and directly via co-investments in portfolio companies spanning sectors like technology, business services, healthcare, consumer goods, industrials, and leisure. Its flexible mandate enables exposure to closed-ended limited partnerships and direct stakes in underlying assets for long-term capital appreciation, with subsidiaries including ICG Enterprise Trust Limited Partnership, ICG Enterprise Trust (2) Limited Partnership, and ICG Enterprise Trust Co-investment Limited Partnership; the investment manager is ICG Alternative Investment Limited.
Founded in 1981 and headquartered at Procession House, 55 Ludgate Hill, London, United Kingdom, the company, formerly known as Graphite Enterprise Trust PLC and F&C Enterprise Trust PLC, leverages over 40 years of track record and ICG plc's global platform across 16 country offices since management transitioned to ICG in 2016. Geographically, operations target developed markets in the US and Western Europe, serving shareholders seeking resilient growth through a diversified portfolio of mature private companies.
In the last 1-2 years, ICG Enterprise Trust has executed significant portfolio activity, including realisations generating £222 million in proceeds in the first half of fiscal 2026 from exits such as Froneri (its largest holding), Minimax, and Datasite, surpassing full-year prior proceeds. New deployments totalled £113 million, featuring co-investments like Project Domino alongside ICG's LP Secondaries Fund, US$9.0 million in Gateway Services (pet crematoria network), follow-on in Vistage Worldwide, and increases in high performers; additionally, £108 million in new fund commitments across eight vehicles. The company maintains a gearing ratio of 5% and liquidity over £300 million as of July 2025, supporting progressive dividends, share buybacks, and further investments, while shareholders approved all resolutions including board re-elections at the June 2025 AGM.