Refinancing of Career Partner Group

1 March 2021

Oakley Capital Investments Limited

Oakley Capital Investments Limited¹ ("OCI") is pleased to announce that Career Partner Group has completed a refinancing with Arcmont Asset Management.

OCI's share of proceeds via Oakley Capital Fund III² will be c.£28 million.

Note that the above figure only relates to OCI's share of Oakley's overall proceeds from the refinancing.

OCI's liquid resources available for future deployment (including this transaction) are estimated to be c.£197 million.        

Further details on the transaction can be found in the below announcement from Oakley Capital.

Refinancing of Career Partner Group

Oakley Capital is pleased to announce that Career Partner Group ("CPG") has completed a refinancing with Arcmont Asset Management, as a result of continued strong performance and cash generation.

CPG is Germany's largest and fastest growing university group and has continued to perform well throughout 2020. As a tech-enabled business, CPG has benefitted from the increasing digitalisation of the education market and achieved record student intake growth during the last twelve months. Oakley will continue to support the management team as the business further expands its product offering.

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For further information please contact:

Oakley Capital Limited

+44 20 7766 6900

Steven Tredget, Investor Relations

Greenbrook Communications Limited

+44 20 7952 2000

Alex Jones / Michael Russell / James Williams

Liberum Capital Limited (Financial Adviser & Broker)

+44 20 3100 2000

Gillian Martin / Owen Matthews

Notes:

This announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 as amended by The Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.

LEI Number: 213800KW6MZUK12CQ815

¹ About Oakley Capital Investments Limited ("OCI")

OCI is a Specialist Fund Segment ("SFS") traded investment vehicle that aims to provide shareholders with consistent long-term capital growth in excess of the FTSE All-Share Index by providing liquid access to private equity returns through investment in the Oakley Funds².

A video introduction to OCI is available at https://oakleycapitalinvestments.com/videos/

The contents of the OCI website are not incorporated into, and do not form part of, this announcement.

Oakley Capital, the Investment Adviser

Founded in 2002, Oakley Capital Limited has demonstrated the repeated ability to source high quality growth assets at attractive prices. To do this, it relies on its sector and regional expertise, its ability to tackle transaction complexity and its deal generating entrepreneur network.

²The Oakley Funds

Oakley Capital Private Equity L.P. and its successor funds, Oakley Capital Private Equity II, Oakley Capital Private Equity III, Oakley Capital IV and Oakley Capital Origin Fund are unlisted lower-mid to mid-market private equity funds that aim to provide investors with significant long-term capital appreciation. The investment strategy of the Funds is to focus on buy-out opportunities in industries with the potential for growth, consolidation and performance improvement.

Important information

Specialist Fund Segment securities are not admitted to the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority. Therefore, the Company has not been required to satisfy the eligibility criteria for admission to listing on the Official List and is not required to comply with the Financial Conduct Authority's Listing Rules.

The Specialist Fund Segment is intended for institutional, professional, professionally advised and knowledgeable investors who understand, or who have been advised of, the potential risk from investing in companies admitted to the Specialist Fund Segment.

This announcement may include "forward-looking statements". These forward-looking statements are statements regarding the Company's objectives, intentions, beliefs or current expectations with respect to, amongst other things, the Company's financial position, business strategy, results of operations, liquidity, prospects and growth. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future.  Accordingly the Company's actual future financial results, operational performance and achievements may differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, the statements. Given these uncertainties, prospective investors are cautioned not to place any undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as at the date of this announcement. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to update or revise any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect actual results or any change in the Company's expectations with regard to them or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statements are based unless required to do so by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, the Listing Rules or Prospectus Regulation Rules of the Financial Conduct Authority or other applicable laws, regulations or rules.