Overview
Private Equity Approach
Private Equity Criteria
Private Equity Case Studies

G.C. Andersen Partners’ approach to private equity is to identify direct investment opportunities that can be enhanced by the firm's involvement.

Evaluation
The firm’s evaluation process involves identifying the investment thesis, analyzing the company's competitive position, assessing risk, evaluating management, and valuing the investment. Importantly, the firm also assesses how its involvement can enhance the opportunity.

Structuring
The firm’s goals include meeting the company's financing needs, aligning constituent interests, highly motivating management, protecting against downside scenarios, enabling follow-on investments, balancing elements of control, and planning for exit.

Investing
The firm invests its partners' own money. It also selects appropriate co-investors, optimizes the capital structure and arranges other necessary financing.

Maximizing Value
The firm does not typically get involved with day-to-day management. The firm does, however, seeks to endorse or refine the company's strategy, identify and attract additional members of management, assist in add-on acquisitions and joint ventures, arrange additional financing and help with operational issues, if necessary.

Exit
Consistent with plans established at the time of investment, the firm helps companies go public, find strategic partners or attract additional capital to enable them to move to their next stage of development.