Current
Commitment:
£27.5m
Date of investment:
2025
Sector:
Business Services
Buy & Build:
1 Completed Acquisitions
“This is an exciting time for Lanpro, our clients and colleagues. We are delighted to be partnering with Horizon Capital, which has a strong track record in supporting companies such as ours to accelerate both organic and acquisitive growth. Lanpro has grown in recent years with a focus on quality thanks to the hard work of our colleagues and the support of our clients, and we look forward to building on that success with this investment as we deliver on our ambition to become the largest planning led multi-disciplinary environmental consultancy in the UK, whilst retaining the independence and responsiveness that define our culture.”
Chris LeemingCEO - Lanpro
Background
Lanpro specialises in providing outsourced planning, ecology, arboriculture, environmental impact assessment, historic environment, landscape architecture and data & spatial analysis services to over 300 clients nationally.
Lanpro was founded in 2008 by Chris Leeming and Phil Atkinson and has established offices in London, Edinburgh, Cambridge, York, Manchester, Bath and Norwich, providing national coverage. The business has delivered strong organic growth, significantly ahead of market growth rates and built a reputation for quality and proactive advice across all disciplines.
Horizon Capital is taking a majority stake and committing capital to support continued organic growth, and acquisitions to broaden national coverage and complementary services. Alongside Horizon Capital’s investment, additional debt financing support has been provided by HSBC to support the buy and build strategy.
The Journey
Lanpro’s ambition is to become the largest independent businesses in the sector, with a focus on delivering a multi-disciplinary offer across a range of environmental and planning consultancy services.
Buy and Build
Horizon Capital has been mapping the planning & environmental services market for ~3 years and therefore has been able to leverage this sector knowledge and network to Lanpro, building a strong pipeline of accretive acquisition targets alongside management’s extensive network, with the Group’s first acquisition of Carney Sweeney completed shortly post investment.
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