Guiding Principles
Our investment philosophy follows guiding principles:

  • Partner up with an experienced entrepreneur and/or management team
    • Each part plays a specific role in the partnership
    • We value our partner’s competencies and experience
    • We act as “hands-on” shareholder
  • Invest in a business plan
    • Value creation (investment’s profitability) is based on the company’s growth, financial improvements (operating improvement, cash management, reengineering process of poorly managed businesses, asset stripping) and potential for consolidation (build-ups, etc.)
    • The objective is at least to duplicate the EBITDA in 4 years
  • Align management’s interest through equity compensation schemes
    • Stock options, earn out, co-investment, among others
  • Defined exit strategy
    • Thorough analysis of exit opportunities are performed before investing
    • Profitability analysis is projected using the same exit multiple as the acquisition multiple