Edgewater Capital Management, LLC
PE/Buy-Out · Independence (United States)
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Edgewater Capital Management, LLC is a private equity firm specializes in acquisition of lower middle market, later stage, Turnaround companies. The firm has no restriction in investment types but participates in management buyouts, corporate carve-outs, supporting succession planning in family businesses, Partnering with owner-operators, closely held family businesses, growth capital, corporate spinoffs, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, mature, recapitalizations, and industry consolidations or build-ups. It invests in performance material businesses including specialty chemicals, distributors, manufacturing services, pharmaceuticals focusing on proprietary formulations with competitive protection (patents, NDAs, exclusivity, etc.), and engineered substances or components (Examples include, but are not limited to: composites, ceramics, abrasives, polymers, services businesses, biomedical materials, nano-elements, resins, plastics, and alloys). The firm seeks companies with products that are small but critical components to an end-product, are custom designed solutions to a given application, and are sold to technical professionals (i.e., chemists, scientists, engineers, etc.) rather than purchasing agents. It also seeks to invest in life sciences, specialty industrials, and advanced materials. It invests in platform companies throughout North America and has no geographic limitation for add-on acquisitions. It makes equity investments ranging between $5 million and $50 million. For initial or platform investments, it invests in companies with an enterprise value between $8 million and $100 million; sales value between $5 million and $200 million; and an EBITDA between $2 million and $25 million with gross margins of greater than 20% (for add-on and platform) and EBITDA margins of greater than 10%. For add-on acquisitions, the firm seeks businesses with revenues of at least $5 million and a positive EBITDA. It prefers to take a majority stake. The firm utilizes a combination of consideration in its acquisitions like cash at closing, seller participation in the post-transaction entity; and/or earn-out payments contingent on the future performance of the business. Edgewater Capital Management, LLC was founded in 1998 and is based in Independence, Ohio.
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