Lime Rock Partners, LLC

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Lime Rock Partners, LLC is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in growth capital, emerging growth, buyouts, expansion capital, acquisitions, late venture, turnarounds, and mature investments. The firm typically invests in middle market companies. The firm prefers to invest in power, exploration and production, energy service, oil service technology, oilfield service companies, upstream, oil and gas storage and transportation, alternative energy resources, and related energy sectors. Within exploration and production, it seeks to invest in oil and gas producing companies with an established reserve base and start-up companies that develop new resources. Within oilfield service, the firm focuses on companies offering products and services to energy producers worldwide, products with a technological edge over the competition, and companies targeting fast growing regional markets such as the United States Rockies, North Sea, or Central Europe. Within oil service technology, it prefers to invest in entrepreneurial oil service technology companies developing high-impact technologies that offer measurable improvement in oil and gas production and extraction and companies that seek to commercialize its technically feasible products or expand into international markets. Within the other sectors, it seeks to invest in developers of midstream assets, downstream technologies, or renewable energy projects. The firm invests in companies around the world with a focus on North and South America, Europe, and Northwest Europe. The firm prefers to invest between $5 million and $150 million in companies with enterprise values between $10 million and $500 million. The firm also invests smaller amounts of capital in young technology companies on the brink of strong growth. The firm prefers to take a majority stake. The firm exits its investments through public offerings, private market sales, or recapitalizations. Lime Rock Partners, LLC was founded in 1998 and is based in Westport, Connecticut with additional offices in Houston, Texas; Aberdeen, United Kingdom; London, United Kingdom; Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Calgary, Canada.

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