About
We are a family owned holding company with a passion for preserving and growing remarkable businesses.
Having built and sold companies of our own, we understand wanting to see the results of your hard work preserved and your legacy continued. We’ve been where you are, which is why we only invest our own capital into well-run businesses with no intention of selling them. We will only ever promise to do what we feel is realistic and achievable. We’re in this for the long-term and through experience we know who we’re best suited to as partners.
We bring with us a wealth of expertise in business growth, from both a financial and operational perspective, whilst also respecting the skill and knowledge of your team. Acting as a partner for sustainable growth and opening up new opportunities for the businesses we invest in is what we do best. We’re here to add value and not to create change for the sake of change.
Not only does our team hold a strong understanding of business investment and growth strategy, we also appreciate the hard work, dedication and compromises that come with growing a business from scratch. Using our own family capital, we invest in businesses that we believe have the potential to do great things. The benefit of that is we don’t have pressure from external investors, or a timeframe in which we need to pay back funds.
In the same way you started your business, our investment company was started through passion for remarkable business and long-term success, not greed and short-term profits.
It’s hard to put a price tag on years of work and dedication. That’s why our offers will always be fair and our process straightforward.
Danny Jatania
Investor and Advisor, Monaco
Danny Jatania is a businessman with a background in accounting and finance. He has over 30 years of experience managing businesses across international markets such as Asia, Middle East and Eastern Europe.
In 1978, Danny co-founded Lornamead, a leading privately held global marketer of personal care brands with annual turnover of over £100 million. The business was sold in early 2013 to Li & Fung Ltd.
In 2011, Danny launched his second business, Pockit, a financial technology business disrupting the payments sector which has raised over £18m to date from angel investors and Venture Capital funds. Investors include Sir Alex Ferguson, Mark Newton Jones and Maven Capital. Danny led the business and fund-raising initiatives as CEO & Chairman during the first two years of operation and the business has over 350,000 users today.
Danny established Jatania Group to directly invest his wealth into commercial property and private equity & venture capital. As investor and advisor, Danny provides strategic advice and guidance from the Monaco office. Jatania Holdings is a subsidiary of Jatania Group.
Initially, Jatania Holdings started its private equity activities by investing as a minority shareholder in various industries. However, given Danny and the team’s operational, financial and transactional experience, the objective of Jatania Holdings is to acquire only majority equity stakes in SMEs.
Yuvraj Jatania
Chief Executive Officer
Yuvraj graduated from the London School of Economics & Political Sciences with a BSc in Accounting and Finance. He subsequently joined Ernst & Young’s Transaction Advisory Services team where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant and gained valuable experience in business/transaction modelling and valuations.
In 2011 Yuvraj co-founded and managed Pockit, a financial technology business disrupting the payments sector which has raised over £18m to date from angel investors and Venture Capital funds. During his time at Pockit, he was responsible for fund raising, building strategic sales partnerships, marketing and customer experience and service.
He has over 13 years of transactional experience spanning a number of industries including Real Estate, Energy and Technology.
Prathapan Shankar
Chief Operating Officer
Prath graduated from the London School of Economics & Political Sciences and subsequently worked in asset management for Deutsche Bank , Julius Baer & UBS in the early part of his career before joining Ernst & Young in 2007 where he subsequently qualified as a Chartered Accountant practicing in Transaction Services. During his time there he focused on private equity portfolio advisory, including working capital and special situations for clients such as Terra Firma, 3G Capital and Warner Music. He also has experience in Corporate Recovery.
Prath has an entrepreneurial streak having built a personal and autonomous portfolio of small businesses turning over in excess of £2m pa.