Gijs Geurts
CEO, Anywhere365

Accelerated growth through data-driven insights

We leverage big data and artificial intelligence to build companies with lasting significance

The Beehive, our proprietary data engine, proactively delivers market and competitive opportunities you can act on. Our approach removes much of the stress and uncertainty around taking the next big step in your scale-up journey.

The Beehive supports our own investment activity every day. Our investment team takes advantage of these data-driven insights to successfully identify interesting and high-potential businesses to invest in.

When it comes to growth, we leave nothing to chance.

Scan

The Beehive analyses millions of data sources to proactively surface trends and acquisition opportunities that align with your strategic roadmap and enhance your core offering.

Execute

Data analysis supports the identification and due diligence of acquisition targets. In execution, our team does the heavy lifting. You can expect a seamless accretive acquisition process designed to accelerate your product, geographic or customer growth.

Integrate

We’re in it for the long-haul. Which means we understand that success is contingent upon smooth post-acquisition integration. Our approach looks to embed synergy across systems, processes, people and culture to ensure your full potential is realised.

A highly targeted approach to growth

Spot trends

We crunch and analyse enormous amounts of company, people, market and consumer data across multiple sources. Allowing you to take advantage of the trends, patterns and challenges that will directly impact your business.

Capitalise on opportunities

Our proprietary algorithms screen over a million companies to identify new deals and add-on acquisitions that will accelerate your growth plans.

Act with confidence

Make informed decisions based on a full 360-degree view of your industry and geography

We built Beehive to give our portfolio companies the "unfair advantage" against their competition.

All the founders we've partnered with have entrusted us to help them accelerate the growth of their businesses both organically and inorganically. At Bregal Milestone, we take this responsibility very seriously. Beehive is a proprietary decision support platform leveraging data and technology to surface add-on acquisitions, market analysis, and industry trends for our management teams.

Ian Kwok

Managing Director

Bregal Milestone LL
PMIFIDPRU 8 Disclosure
February 2023

Introduction

The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA” or “regulator”) in the Prudential sourcebook for MiFID Investment Firms in the FCA Handbook (“MIFIDPRU”) sets out the detailed prudential requirements that apply to Bregal Milestone LLP, (the “Firm”). Chapter 8 of MIFIDPRU (“MIFIDPRU 8”) sets out public disclosure rules and guidance with which the Firm must comply, further to those prudential requirements.

The Firm is classified under MIFIDPRU as a small and non-interconnected MIFIDPRU investment firm (“SNI MIFIDPRU Investment Firm”). As such, the Firm is required by MIFIDPRU 8 to disclose information regarding its remuneration policy and practices.

The purpose of these disclosures is to give stakeholders and market participants an insight into the Firm’s culture and to assist stakeholders in making more informed decisions about their relationship with the Firm.

This document has been prepared by the Firm in accordance with the requirements of MIFIDPRU 8 and is verified by the senior management of the Firm. Unless otherwise stated, all figures are as at the Firm’s 31 December financial year-end.

Remuneration Policy and Practices

Overview

As an SNI MIFIDPRU Investment Firm, the Firm is subject to the basic requirements of the MIFIDPRU Remuneration Code (as laid down in Chapter 19G of the Senior management arrangements, Systems and Controls sourcebook in the FCA Handbook (“SYSC”)). The purpose of the remuneration requirements is to:

Promote effective risk management in the long-term interests of the Firm and its clients;
Ensure alignment between risk and individual reward;
Support positive behaviours and healthy firm cultures; and
Discourage behaviours that can lead to misconduct and poor customer outcomes.

The objective of the Firm’s remuneration policies and practices is to establish, implement and maintain a culture that is consistent with, and promotes, sound and effective risk management and does not encourage risk-taking which is inconsistent with the risk profile of the Firm and the services that it provides to its clients.

In addition, the Firm recognises that remuneration is a key component in how the Firm attracts, motivates, and retains quality staff and sustains consistently high levels of performance, productivity, and results. As such, the Firm’s remuneration philosophy is also grounded in the belief that its people are the most important asset and provide its greatest competitive advantage.

The Firm is committed to excellence, teamwork, ethical behaviour, and the pursuit of exceptional outcomes for its clients. From a remuneration perspective, this means that performance is determined through the assessment of various factors that relate to these values, and by making considered and informed decisions that reward effort, attitude, and results.

Characteristics of the Firm’s Remuneration Policy and Practices

Remuneration at the Firm is made up of fixed and variable components. The fixed component is set in line with market competitiveness at a level to attract and retain skilled staff. Variable remuneration is paid on a discretionary basis and takes into consideration the Firm’s financial performance as well as the financial performance of each business unit, and the financial and non-financial performance of the individual in contributing to the Firm’s success. All staff members are eligible to receive variable remuneration.

The fixed and variable components of remuneration are appropriately balanced: the fixed component represents a sufficiently high proportion of the total remuneration to enable the operation of a fully flexible policy on variable remuneration. This allows for the possibility of paying no variable remuneration component, which the Firm would do in certain situations, such as where the Firm’s profitability performance is constrained, or where there is a risk that the Firm may not be able to meet its capital or liquidity regulatory requirements.

Governance and Oversight

The senior management of the Firm are responsible for setting and overseeing the implementation of the Firm’s remuneration policy and practices. In order to fulfil its responsibilities, the Firm’s senior management:

Is appropriately staffed to enable it to exercise competent and independent judgment on remuneration policies and practices and the incentives created for managing risk, capital, and liquidity.
Prepares decisions regarding remuneration, including decisions that have implications for the risk and risk management of the Firm.
Ensures that the Firm’s remuneration policy and practices take into account the public interest and the long-term interests of shareholders, investors, and other stakeholders in the Firm.
Ensures that the overall remuneration policy is consistent with the business strategy, objectives, values, and interests of the Firm and of its clients.

The Firm’s remuneration policy and practices are reviewed annually by the Firm’s senior management.

Quantitative Remuneration Disclosure

For the financial year 1 January to 31 December 2022, the total amount of remuneration awarded to all staff was £7,068,755, of which £4,667,413 comprised the fixed component of remuneration, and £2,401,342 comprised the variable component. For these purposes, ‘staff’ is defined broadly, and includes, for example, employees of the Firm itself, partners or members, employees of other entities in the Bregal Group, and secondees.

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