Since 1991 we have invested approximately $1.8 billion in 52 transactions. We typically invest $25 million to $150 million per deal, in companies with valuations between $100 million and $750 million. Our disciplined style has proved successful in a wide range of industries, transaction structures and markets.

Industries of experience:

• Consumer products
• Distribution
• Energy
• Financial services
• Food
• For-profit education
• Health-care products and services
• Manufacturing
• Media and communications
• Retail

We target businesses with:

• Steady cash flow
• Strong growth prospects
• Sustainable competitive advantages
• Proven operating management
• Significant potential for profit improvement
• Range of potential exits

Typical candidates for investment:

• Privately held companies seeking to accelerate growth through expansion, acquisition or market consolidation
• Leveraged acquisitions of businesses with strong market positions, including orphan divisions of public companies
• Restructurings of fundamentally sound businesses with complex financial or operating issues
• Family-owned companies seeking to facilitate generational ownership changes or to recapitalize
• Late-stage high-potential ventures not dependent on unproven technologies
• Small- and mid-capitalization public companies seeking negotiated placement of preferred equity