A unique strategic feature of Private Equity Partners is its great operating flexibility and the consequent possibility of recurring to different investment structures and/or types of investors and/or timing of intervention in a highly professional way and according to the distinctive features of the deal in question.
Principal types of deals accomplished by Private Equity Partners:
Expansion Capital and pre-IPO Financing:
In Expansion Capital and pre-IPO financing deals Private Equity Partners has a longstanding and recognized leadership in the Italian market.
Ideal targets are first class well-managed Italian medium sized companies with a strong orientation to grow and internationalize their activities with the final objective to be listed in a regulated market.
In this kind of deals Private Equity Partners privileges the acquisition of minority interests in the company in question, operating in close contact with its entrepreneur and/or management team, following a shared growth strategy and actively supporting its development, acquisition and internationalization processes.
Buy & Build (Creation of industrial clusters):
PEP has implemented several Buy & Build deals, aimed to create industrial clusters operating in specific strategic-product markets in order to establish, in a short period of time, bigger corporate entities endowed with the necessary dimension, synergies and qualified management to efficiently and effectively compete in an increasingly complex and international environment.
Buy Out, with particular reference to Management Buy Out (MBO) deals:
With over 25 years’ experience in the Italian market, Private Equity Partners’ team of experts has helped many groups of managers become entrepreneurs. In many cases, such deals have been realised within a spin-off process from national and international groups, in generational change situations.
Early Stage e Venture Capital:
On certain carefully selected cases and mainly recurring to its own resources, PEP has made investments in Early Stage situations, where general conditions and management quality and skills have been considered fitting with its investment approach.
SPACs (Special Purpose Acquisition Companies):
Thanks to the strategic partnership developed with Equita SIM S.p.A., since 2017 Private Equity Partners has been able to operate through the instrument of the SPAC, a vehicle particularly suited to companies aiming to a fast listing on a Stock Exchange, minimizing the risks and uncertainties linked to the process and benefiting at the same time from the support of highly qualified and professional institutional partners, able to assist them after the listing as well.
Club Deals:
In this type of deals, successfully carried out by Private Equity Partners for a long time, specific categories of investors, both institutional and private ones (Family offices included) are selected, whose characteristics and timing of investment are consistent with the needs and dimensions of the investee company (ies) and who can contribute to the development of the investee company (ies) with useful relationships and contacts.