Verdian is not a private equity firm. Verdian seeks to invest its own capital, along with those of the family offices of some of the most sophisticated private equity investors in the world. We prefer to own our businesses over the long-term, either as public or private entities. Verd…
Verdian is not a private equity firm. Verdian seeks to invest its own capital, along with those of the family offices of some of the most sophisticated private equity investors in the world. We prefer to own our businesses over the long-term, either as public or private entities.
Verdian leverages its extensive industry knowledge, operational expertise and flexible capital to ensure companies reach their full potential in the healthcare, government, industrial and other business service sectors.
The Verdian team is led by Jim Lindstrom, a former Chairman, CEO and CFO and invested in several publicly-traded, global businesses, including Providence Service Corp., IES Holdings, Centrue Financial Corporation and ChiRex Inc., all of which generated shareholder returns in excess of their peer groups during his tenure.
Our investment focus is on B2B service and software sectors where businesses provide services which are essential or mandatory, often subject to regulation, reputational assurance and characterized by consistency in demand.
We focus on targets that have a large proportion of revenues that recur periodically from month to month and year to year with long-term, durable customer relationships.
We focus on software and service sectors which are technical, specialist and operationally complex to deliver and command attractive margins thanks to the efficiencies and value they add to our customers’ operations. Areas include:
· Education and training
· Compliance management
· Quality Assurance and Testing
· Software
We focus on markets which are fragmented and exhibit characteristics that are suited to industry consolidation.
We would like to hear from you if you are selling a business with revenues in excess of $5m and are:
· Planning a retirement sale, complete or partial exit from your business.
· An ambitious entrepreneur or management team of an established businesses operating in the business services arena looking for significant investment to accelerate your growth.
· In a strong market position regionally or nationally with established operations.
We can offer:
· The opportunity for both operational improvements and the economies of scale that are created through our operational expertise and industry knowledge.
· The benefit of being part of a family-office owned company which provides access to significant investment and the flexibility to take advantage of further growth opportunities.
· We have significant acquisition funds readily available.
· We are able to structure a wide variety of deals to suit diverse shareholder circumstances and don’t have a one size fits all approach.
· Our team of M&A professionals are adept at structuring deals end executing them efficiently.
· The ability to complete deals of all shapes and sizes, but typically with enterprise values that range from $5m to $100m.
