Overview

Focus
Smaller middle-market companies:
===• Sales $25 to $250 million
===• EBITDA $5 to $15 million
===• Enterprise Value less than $100 million

Profitable and growing businesses with strong management, or underperforming companies in the process of a turnaround.

Sectors of interest:
===• General Manufacturing=====• Media=============• Specialty Retail==========• Specialty Chemicals
===• Automotive============= • Marketing Services=== • Consumer Products

Experience
Our principals have invested nearly $500 million in private equity transactions. They have also advised and financed private equity transactions totaling over $10 billion.

We have an experienced group of operating executives who assist us in due diligence and in the strategic oversight of our portfolio companies.

Capability
Access to over $200 million of equity capital.

Building Partnerships

Our success depends on building partnerships with the parties that make our transactions possible.

Owners
We close our transactions expeditiously because our professionals are experienced in evaluating and financing acquisitions.
We welcome the continued involvement of our companies’ previous owners both as senior executives and as shareholders, if they so desire.

Management
Key to our success is building a genuine partnership with the management of our portfolio companies. We seek management teams with a strong commitment to build equity value in their business – for their shareholders and for themselves.

We structure ownership and incentive plans that offer management significant rewards for growth and profitability.

Our operators, who have experience with much larger companies, are a valuable resource to management.

Investment Bankers
MTN is an experienced business partner. We are quick in evaluating transactions and resourceful in getting to the finish line.

Investment Approach

MTN has an active origination program to identify attractive investment opportunities. We often find our best opportunities off the beaten track: orphan subsidiaries of large companies, private companies reluctant to go through an auction process, companies with an intrinsic value that is not readily apparent, or businesses lingering in failed auctions.

We have recruited operating executives to help us evaluate our investment opportunities. They are former top executives from major corporations and successful entrepreneurs.

We carefully study our investment targets from both an operational and financial perspective, develop our investment thesis with management and our operators, and determine a fair acquisition price.

Post-acquisition, MTN investment professionals and operators join the boards of our portfolio companies. We take an active role in monitoring our companies’ performance and in ensuring that they achieve their full business potential.

Together with management, MTN determines the best time and strategy for exiting the investment.