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This week LIQUITY celebrated the launch of its ground-breaking private equity marketplace with an event attended by more than 200 interested parties, including CEOs, angel investors, venture capitalists and other city professionals. The event, supported by UBS Wealth Management and Wedlake Bell LLP, was held at Canary Wharf’s Technology hub - Level39.
The value of unquoted company equity in the UK is over £300 billion, and the UK is home to thousands of established and highly profitable private companies that represent outstanding investment opportunities. However, there are currently significant challenges for all types of investors to access these businesses. At the same time, it is also very difficult, at times impossible, for private company shareholders wishing to sell their stakes and realise the value of their holdings. In today’s environment, private companies and shareholders alike are suffering the consequences of a severe lack of liquidity within the private company equity space.
The LIQUITY offering reduces the potential friction between private shareholders by enabling the flow of unquoted company equity; ultimately benefitting businesses by creating a more stable and forward thinking shareholder structure.
LIQUITY’s online platform, combined with its traditional offline support services, champions the concept that greater liquidity in UK private company market will not only profit shareholder, private companies and potential investors, but also strengthen the UK economy as a whole.
Barry Shrier, Founder and CEO of LIQUITY, comments:
“Private company ownership structures are highly complex.
Increasing the liquidity of equity stakes is vital to the performance of UK private businesses, strengthening the shareholder base and stimulating further economic growth.
LIQUITY aims to release £1 billion cash into the British economy by matching buyers and sellers of private company equity with the proposition of a new and unique solution benefitting all sides of the equation.”
