The Gores Group

Family Office · Beverly Hills (United States)

Family Office

Seed

Series A

Services

Hardware

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The Gores Group LLC is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of mature, and growing businesses. The firm seeks to invest in middle market companies, divestitures from larger corporate parents, leveraged buyouts, and buyouts of standalone businesses. The firm also specializes in merger and acquisitions and turnarounds. The firm specializes in acquiring businesses that are undergoing change in capital structure, strategy, operations or growth. The firm does not make early stage and venture stage investments. It invests in underperforming and undervalued non-core businesses typically those encountering strategic, operational, financial, or organizational challenges. It invests in technology; communication; telecommunications; cable, satellite, business services; consumer and retail with a focus on apparel; healthcare; industrial sectors; media with a focus on radio, television, and music in particular; food products; and commercial security and safety services, residential security and personal safety services. It focuses on investments in the North America focusing on United States and Europe. The firm seeks to invest between $25 million and $250 million to acquire businesses that have enterprise values between $100 million to $3 billion; sales value of upto $300 million; and EBITDA of upto $20 million. For public investments, the firm typically invests in companies with enterprise values between $1 billion to $30 billion. It makes controlled investments and prefers to take majority positions in the portfolio companies. The firm generally acquires controlling interests and a seat on the Board of Directors of the portfolio companies. The Gores Group LLC was founded in 1987 and is based in Beverly Hills, California with additional offices in Boulder, Colorado; and Greenwich, Connecticut.

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