OUR VISION

Long-Term Value Creation

We believe in taking a long-term perspective to help stakeholders build value over time. To us, value is created through profitably growing a business, not financial engineering. We partner with management teams to cultivate businesses through a combination of product innovation, commercial excellence and careful strategic add-on acquisitions.  Our flexible partnership approach can provide investment for any combination of ownership liquidity, internal growth initiatives, or acquisitions – all while creating significant equity opportunities for key management.​

Partnership Approach

Industrial Technology companies have gained application knowledge through decades of market participation, and have worked hard to create protected niches. We do not attempt to be operators, but rather partners that grow a company to the next stage of its life-cycle. We have deep admiration for the capable people that created success in these companies - and we will leverage our deep industry knowledge and relationships to assist these managers in expanding their businesses while preserving the company’s brand and market position.

Before we complete an investment, Union Park collaborates with management to formalize a strategic plan that will best serve the company’s end markets and customers; and more importantly, we identify and commit the resources required to support those plans. During this routine, we shape clear roles and responsibilities for ourselves, management, board members, and other advisors.

We will help pinpoint opportunities to expand product offerings, sales presence, and geographic reach, thereby positioning the business for sustained growth. Our long-term vision endeavors for each investment to become an industry leader while maintaining the drive, flexibility, and entrepreneurial attitude that made it a great business in the first place.

In almost all of our investments, we have helped identify and completed add-on acquisitions to add scale, drive profitability, and provide more resources for the company to execute its strategy. It can be assured that we will proficiently manage future financing events and leverage our investing knowledge to make the most advantageous decisions for all stakeholders in this regard.

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Investment Criteria

​Union Park Capital will typically pursue equity investments of between $10 million and $50 million, generally focusing on platform businesses with $10 million to $75 million in revenue. We will also invest larger amounts on occasion with support from our partners. Add-on acquisitions for our platform companies will typically range from $1 million to $50 million of revenue. We will consider companies that are profitable and those that have been historically profitable but have temporarily encountered headwinds and are underperforming in some manner.

Our creative and flexible approach to investments allows us to participate in a broad range of transactions. Union Park’s lean investment staff and deep expertise in the sector enables us to act quickly to fund investments, and do so very confidentially. We make a determined effort to structure investments to meet the specific personal and financial requirements of a seller. We finance our investments prudently, not relying on financial engineering to drive investment performance.

Our principal focus is on companies headquartered in North America and Europe. Our experience is well-suited for family-held businesses, roll-overs of a portion of existing equity, acquisition financing, take-private transactions, management buy-outs, recapitalizations, growth equity investments, and other businesses simply in need of successors.