Buyout PE
Cardinal Capital Group
Cardinal Capital Group acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from Dublin, Ireland.
Stated investment criteria
What Cardinal Capital Group says it buys
Read from Cardinal Capital Group’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.
Source
A stated mandate is a firm’s description of itself and was true of the page on the day it was read; firms widen and narrow what they will look at without updating the site. Nothing here is a commitment by Cardinal Capital Group to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.
Regulatory record
How Cardinal Capital Group is registered
From this firm's Form ADV, the annual filing every registered and exempt investment adviser makes to the SEC.
| Adviser status | Exempt reporting adviser |
| Regulatory assets under management | Not reported by an ERA |
| Private funds advised | 2 · $301m gross |
| SEC adviser number | CRD 171530 |
An exempt reporting adviser is not required to report regulatory assets under management, so the blank above means the question was not asked rather than that the answer is unknown. Where a figure exists it is the gross asset value of the private funds the firm advises, which is a different and usually larger measure.
Portfolio
Disclosed holdings
Companies Cardinal Capital Group lists on its own website. No investment years are published.
| Company | Invested | Years held | Recorded transaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Plus | — | — | — |
| Charlemont Square | — | — | — |
| Irish Examiner | — | — | — |
| Lily O'Brien's Chocolates | — | — | — |
| Mowlam Healthcare | — | — | — |
| Rathborne Boulevard | — | — | — |
| irish-times | — | — | — |
| learning-pool | — | — | — |
| rte | — | — | — |
| the-business-post | — | — | — |
| the-independent | — | — | — |
Compiled from Cardinal Capital Group’s published portfolio page. Where a recorded transaction is shown, that company was the target of a reported deal and has most likely already been realised. Nothing here is represented as being for sale.
Recorded transactions
Buying and selling
Deals in which Cardinal Capital Group is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 1 recorded exit, most recently in 2022.
| Company | Side | Counterparty | Year | Consideration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McCauley | Sold | Uniphar Group Plc | 2022 | $56m |
Compiled from a transaction archive of 10,204 recorded deals. Most private transactions are never disclosed, so this is a sample of a firm’s activity rather than a complete record of it.
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