Our team has invested assisted and partnered with companies in a broad range of industries and sectors over the years. Some recent ones include business services, specialty retail, food processing and infrastructure, consumer packaged goods, media and entertainment including broadcasting, communications and technology and heavy industrial including oil and gas.
By virtue of our hands on approach to balanced partnerships, wherein we supplement management as opposed to supplant them, we have developed a good sense of capabilities that work and decisions that matter and support the stakeholder objectives being pursued. While we have a diversity of sector and geographic experience, our skills are functional and hence always complementary to the sector and industry experience that management and employees bring to our portfolio. While we tailor fit our investments and partnerships to each situation the three typical models we have within our portfolio are:
Control oriented investment or buyouts: We like situations where with our support we can drive profitable growth in companies by virtue of harnessing the full potential of the underlying platform the business affords. Examples include situations like ownership transitions, carve-outs, shareholder conflicts, capital structure challenges, international mis-steps wherein non-operating issues have impacted the businesses ability to exploit true potential. For example buying out the “stub” portfolio and carving out assets of a private equity firm to enable orderly exits for principals.
Turnarounds and distress: Companies that face challenging situations or are in distress due to bad decisions or unfortunate calls under uncertainty, benefit from our active, hands on and heavy participation. We have seen range of turnarounds across sectors and therefore can help owners, management and companies bring to bear cross-functional insights and across sector expertise in handling challenges. For example, deploying software and application oriented offerings growth in specialty retail.
“Off the wall” acquisitions, contrarian investments and ventures. We march to our own tune and often are out of tune with the popular market views. Based on our industry and geographic experience and industry relationships we are comfortable taking on contrarian challenges and creating or working on unique, proprietary situations. For example at peak of the Great Recession acquiring a strong branded specialty retailer with declining revenues. In cases the more off the wall the more at home we feel.
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Our team has invested assisted and partnered with companies in a broad range of industries and sectors over the years. Some recent ones include business services, specialty retail, food processing and infrastructure, consumer packaged goods, media and entertainment including broadcasting, communications and technology and heavy industrial including oil and gas.
Control oriented investment or buyouts: We like situations where with our support we can drive profitable growth in companies by virtue of harnessing the full potential of the underlying platform the business affords. Examples include situations like ownership transitions, carve-outs, shareholder conflicts, capital structure challenges, international mis-steps wherein non-operating issues have impacted the businesses ability to exploit true potential. For example buying out the “stub” portfolio and carving out assets of a private equity firm to enable orderly exits for principals.
Turnarounds and distress: Companies that face challenging situations or are in distress due to bad decisions or unfortunate calls under uncertainty, benefit from our active, hands on and heavy participation. We have seen range of turnarounds across sectors and therefore can help owners, management and companies bring to bear cross-functional insights and across sector expertise in handling challenges. For example, deploying software and application oriented offerings growth in specialty retail.
“Off the wall” acquisitions, contrarian investments and ventures. We march to our own tune and often are out of tune with the popular market views. Based on our industry and geographic experience and industry relationships we are comfortable taking on contrarian challenges and creating or working on unique, proprietary situations. For example at peak of the Great Recession acquiring a strong branded specialty retailer with declining revenues. In cases the more off the wall the more at home we feel.