Pillar 3 disclosures

The disclosures in this section are made in respect of the UK Consolidated Group which includes PCL and its immediate parent, Permira Credit Holdings Limited (“PCHL”). PCL is a subsidiary of PCHL.
PCL is a BIPRU €50,000 Limited Licence firm (not permitted to hold client monies) that is authorised and regulated by the FCA. PCL is the only firm with a limited license in the UK Consolidation Group; PCHL is a financial holding company and not an operating company.

Disclosures are made on a fully consolidated basis.

PCL is permitted to omit one or more of the required disclosures if the Board of PCL believes that the information is immaterial, proprietary or confidential. Materiality is based on criteria that the omission or misstatement of material information could change or influence the assessment or decision of a user relying on that information for the purpose of making economic decisions. Proprietary information may include information on products or systems which, if it were shared, would undermine the company’s competitive position. Information is regarded as confidential where there are obligations to customers or other counterparty relationships binding the company to confidentiality.

Where information is omitted for any of these reasons, this is stated in the relevant section of the disclosure, along with the reason for the disclosure.
Risk management & material risks

Responsibility for risk management rests with the Board of PCL.

The Board has delegated day-to-day responsibility for management of PCL, including risk management, to the CEO, but overall responsibility remains with the Board. The CEO interacts with the Board formally at PCL’s board meetings, which occur regularly, and also informally on a regular basis.

The CEO is also a key part of PCL’s Credit Committee, Investment Committees and Advisory Groups, which are responsible for the investment review process, including oversight of the preparation of proposal documents by PCL’s credit analysts and are responsible for managing and advising on risks in both proposed investments and in current investments within the debt vehicles managed or advised by PCL.

The CEO is assisted by PCL’s CIO in respect of risks in investments within the debt vehicles. The PCL COO and the PCL Finance Director and Chief Risk Officer also assist the CEO with the identification and management of risks in PCL’s business.

Reports of risks and risk management are provided on a regular basis from the CEO to the board of PCL and from the CEO to the Permira group, including through the Chief Risk Officer reporting process.

The Directors have established appropriate risk management policies and procedures proportionate to the nature and scale of PCL’s business to help manage risk. The Directors have identified the following risks as being relevant to the business of PCL:

• Reputational risk: Damage to PCL’s reputation or the reputation of the broader Permira group or funds could have an adverse effect on the business of PCL. The Directors believe that the long-standing experience of the Permira group and the risk management techniques and procedures in place across the Permira group, including PCL, effectively manage, to the extent possible, reputational risks.
• Business risk: PCL could be exposed to substantial risk arising from the difficulty of its key clients to operate in an environment where liquidity is not available. As a fee-based management and advisory business, PCL’s key business risk is the loss of fee income. The Directors believe that business risk, and particularly that associated with the loss of fee income from its existing customers, is low due to the contractual nature of its relationships with those customers. The Directors have carried out various stress tests to look at business risk in more detail in order that business risk is mitigated as effectively as possible.
• Credit risk: Although not a direct risk for PCL, the exposure of the underlying debt vehicles managed or advised by PCL to the credit risk of the investee companies may have implications for PCL’s business. Credit risk manifests itself as a direct risk to PCL through business risk (see above).
• Market risk: This may have indirect implications for PCL’s business. PCL’s clients are active in the debt markets and any weakness in those markets may have implications for PCL. PCL’s direct exposure to market risk is limited to foreign exchange fluctuations and the Directors believe that they have appropriate measures in place to effectively mitigate market risk.
• Operational risk: PCL shares some of the operational support of the Permira group (for example, IT and HR) and its operational capacity is interlinked with the ability of the Permira group to provide it with such support. The Directors feel confident that PCL can take significant comfort from its Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and IT back-up systems which provide a back-up of all files and provide PCL with alternative server and disaster recovery site capabilities.
• Liquidity risk: Liquidity risk is the risk that a firm may not be able to meet its obligations as they fall due or cannot do so without excessive cost. PCL may be exposed to liquidity risk through the loss of fee income or the loss of access to cash deposits (1). Appropriate and regular monitoring by the PCL Board has been established to ensure the company meets FCA requirements as set-out in BIPRU 12.

Each of these risks is considered to be low and all of these risks are within PCL’s risk appetite. In addition the Directors believe that they have appropriate procedures and controls in place to monitor and manage these risks.