Paragon Capital
Buy & build
Acquiring established businesses in fragmented markets and combining them into groups that can carry what no single firm can.
Why buy & build
Fragmented professional markets share a pattern. Individually excellent firms, run by owners who built them, reach a point where the demands on the business outgrow what a single firm can carry — compliance obligations that do not scale down, technology investment beyond one balance sheet, and a labour market where career progression decides who stays.
Combining those firms solves all three at once, provided it is done in a way that keeps what made each of them worth buying. That is the whole difficulty, and it is where we spend our time.
How we do it
We buy for keeps. Our capital has no fund life and no exit deadline. We are not assembling a group to sell it in five years.
Each firm keeps its identity. Its own name, its own culture, its own client relationships. We do not rebrand acquisitions into a single grey holding.
Central support that is genuinely central. IT, compliance, HR, finance and marketing at group level, so that each firm's people can spend their time on clients.
A professional process, and an early answer. We give sellers a value range and a proposed structure within weeks, not months. If we are not the right party, you will know quickly.
Our platforms
Wey & Fields Group — accountancy, tax and administration in the Netherlands. Seven firms and growing. Read more →
We are actively looking at further platforms in adjacent professional and business services markets. If you own a firm in a fragmented sector and are thinking about succession, growth capital or a partial exit, we would like to hear from you.