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Chase Templeton

Chase Templeton is a private medical and group risk insurance broker focusing on the SME and private individual sectors.

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Key Facts

Initial investment: 10/01/2013

Sector – Financial Services

Fund — Buyout Fund II

Status — Realised

Investment highlights

  • Completed and successfully integrated over 75 acquisitions.
  • Bolstered the management team with appointment of new CEO and CFO with extensive sector and private equity experience.
  • Provided an additional £5m to part fund acquisitions and negotiated additional bank funding with HSBC to support growth.
  • Developed streamlined due diligence process to allow acquisitions to be completed in an efficient manner.
  • Accelerated organic growth with the development of a new in-house call centre operation.

Partnership Motivation

We were impressed by the growth Chase Templeton had achieved historically and the management team’s ability to successfully integrate businesses they acquired onto their platform. Scaling the business is supported by its strong relationships with major insurers who are in favour of further market consolidation.

It was clear to the founder that attracting professional investment through private equity was the most efficient way of fuelling his ambitious growth strategy in what remained a highly fragmented market. Due to our deep understanding of financial services, and track record in buy-and-build, we were ideally suited to partner with Chase Templeton.

“Palatine has played an instrumental role in the extraordinary growth at Chase Templeton since investing in our business in 2013. With their much valued support we have in that time completed over 75 acquisitions, more than doubled our workforce and increased our annual premium income from GBP90m to GBP150m. Chase Templeton is now firmly established as one of the UK’s leading private medical insurance specialists.”

Warren Dickson
Chief Executive Officer, Chase Templeton

Investment Team