Private family investment group founded by Danny Jatania
Global Private Equity, Public Equities and Commercial Property Investments. Jatania Group is a private family investment vehicle making direct investments into global SMEs, public markets securities and commercial property through its subsidiaries including Jatania Holdings and Jatania Investments.
Jatania Holdings
Buy, preserve and grow remarkable businesses. Jatania Holdings provides straightforward exit options to business owners who are ready to take a step back or reduce their risk but want to see their legacy continued. Jatania Holdings invests family capital into niche, mission critical businesses with a positive trajectory and £500k-£1m of EBITDA.
Whether it’s a full acquisition or providing majority share for management buyouts, investments are made into businesses with long-term potential and there is no intention of reselling after just a few years. With backgrounds in finance, business operations and launching new business from the ground up, the team has a clear idea of what’s possible as well as which businesses are a good fit.
Jatania Investments
Jatania Investments was set up to invest in commercial real estate. This includes acquiring assets such as office buildings, warehouses and industrial/infrastructure properties. These properties typically have financially strong tenants and, ideally, long leases providing stable rental income.
Danny Jatania
Danny Jatania is a businessman with a background in accounting and finance. He has over 30 years of experience managing businesses across international markets such as Asia, Middle East and Eastern Europe.
In 1978, Danny co-founded Lornamead, a leading privately held global marketer of personal care brands with annual turnover of over £100 million. The business was sold in early 2013 to Li & Fung Ltd.
In 2011, Danny launched his second business, Pockit, a financial technology business disrupting the payments sector which has raised over £18m to date from angel investors and Venture Capital funds. Investors include Sir Alex Ferguson, Mark Newton Jones and Maven Capital. Danny led the business and fund-raising initiatives as CEO & Chairman during the first two years of operation and the business has over 350,000 users today.
Danny established Jatania Group to directly invest his wealth into commercial property and private equity & venture capital. As investor and advisor, Danny provides strategic advice and guidance from the Monaco office.
Initially, Jatania Holdings started its private equity activities by investing as a minority shareholder in various industries. However, given Danny and the team’s operational, financial and transactional experience, the objective of Jatania Holdings is to acquire only majority equity stakes in SMEs.
Danny now manages investments through Jatania Group. Jatania Holdings invests family capital into acquiring niche, mission critical businesses that are well-established and historically profitable.
In the press
FINANCIAL TIMES:
British Asian entrepreneurs fight to transmit their zeal
“We all felt it was time to cash out and give liquidity to the family members to pursue other things. We think by selling we are actually creating the opportunity for more entrepreneurship,” he says in an interview with the FT.
THIS IS MONEY:
£650m Jatania brothers add to empire
Jatania brothers snap up Yardley, one of England’s oldest toiletries and cosmetics brands. The £60m deal is the latest in a succession of takeovers by one of the wealthiest and most powerful business dynasties in the British Asian community.
TIMES OF INDIA:
Jatania’s buy America’s biggest hair-care brands
Jatania brothers have bought out two of America’s biggest hair-care brands in a singular acquisition-led expansion strategy that is soon to extend to India, thereby creating the world’s first Asian cosmetics giant multinational.
REUTERS:
Li & Fung buys Lornamead for $190mil to beef up personal care business
Global supply chain manager Li & Fung Ltd said on Tuesday it had acquired Lornamead Acquisitions Ltd for about $190 million, as it strengthens its business globally in health, beauty and cosmetics.