Strategy
Control Investing
Our control investing strategies combine traditional private equity with distress-for-control investing. We are flexible and opportunistic, investing at any level of the capital structure and benefiting from Aristier Partners’s unique access to deal flow.
Our control investing strategies use limited leverage, and generally hold less liquid, and more concentrated, portfolios than our other investment strategies. Supporting this approach to control investing is our belief that the potential returns more than compensate for the bearing of increased risk.
We manage five control investing strategies that focus on different regions and market sectors – Global Principal, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia-Pacific and Infrastructure Investing and in a range of industries including Financial services, Travel & Entertainement, Technologies, Media & Communications, Transportation, Real Estate, Industrials, Consumer & Retail, Energy & Natural resources.
How We Invest
Aristier Partners makes control equity investments in middle market businesses in North America, Asia-Pacific and Africa with unique and differentiated capabilities. We are seeking to partner with likeminded management teams who have the vision and commitment to build industry-leading companies in our target sectors.
We always begin with the end in mind. For us, the end is a large, profitable, predictable, cash-flow positive business that is delighting its customers. We are looking for the management team to explain to us where the business and markets are now and how to navigate through the waters ahead to profitability.
We tend not to participate in Private Equity auctions, but rather seek opportunities that are outside the mainstream due to the particular circumstances affecting the target company, such as management issues or a lack of capital.
We make opportunistic Private Equity investments when market conditions make them most attractive. Our approach is flexible and opportunistic and benefits from Aristier Partners’s unique access to deal flow. We can make investments, using little to no leverage, of small to large size, in significant blocks or in whole companies, and at any level of the capital structure.
Investor Criteria Factsheet Pdf Download
We want to hear your story, your business’s story, and how we can work together to build the next big thing for lasting impact.
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Target Revenues
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- $20 – $500 Million
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Target Equity Investment
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- $5 – $100 Million
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Profitability
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- Businesses with solid fundamentals are strongly
preferred. Operating profit margins exceeding
10% (ideally 15-20% within 1-2 years).
Certain distressed situations will be considered
- Businesses with solid fundamentals are strongly
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Geographic
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- North America
- Africa
- Asia-Pacific
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Target EBITDA
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- $3 – $15 Million
- Committed and proven management
- Established, profitable and sustainable business model
- Multiple opportunities for rapid organic and
- acquisition- driven growth
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Capital Structure
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- Adequate asset base or cash flow to support
debt is preferred
- Adequate asset base or cash flow to support
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Investment Position
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- Minority or control position
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Industry Sectors
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- Aerospace & Business Aviation
- Digital Infrastructure
- Software and Technology
- Health Care IT & Services
- Real Estate
- Transportation
- Finance services including Fintech
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Industry Focus
But identifying upside potential alone is not the key to profitable investments in Asia-Pacific. Our watchwords are caution, discipline, and selectivity. We favor business sectors where Aristier Partners has prior experience and expertise. Among the companies and industries that receive the most focus are those that exhibit: solid revenue and profit growth, but low valuation multiples, a need for capital and strategic counsel, strong local brands which could benefit from low-cost manufacturing, and cross-border investment potential.
- Aerospace & Business Aviation
- Digital Infrastructure
- Software and Technology
- Health Care IT & Services
- Real Estate
- Transportation
- Finance services including Fintech
Investment Situations
We invest across a wide variety of transaction situations.
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Growth Capital
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- Fueling customer acquisition costs
- Adding sales resources
- Expanding sales and partnership channels
- Accelerating R&D and product expansion
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Capital for Acquisitions
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- Sponsoring the game-changing acquisition of a meaningful competitor, a product that fills out the portfolio, or a forward or backward integration for margin capture
- Sponsoring industry consolidations or build-ups in fragmented,target-rich sectors with attractive fold-in economics
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Buyouts
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- Traditional change-of-control buyouts
- Backing management to buy out existing shareholders
- Leading a take-private of a public company
- Sponsoring a divisional buyout or divestiture of a non-core asset
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Shareholder Liquidity / Recapitalizations
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- Providing full or partial liquidity for financial, strategic, or management shareholders
- Cashing out early investors and prior founders to create alignment with go-forward stakeholders
- Solving for situations where the need for an exit or liquidity event hampers the Company’s ability to drive long-term value
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