Summary Overview
Saratoga Partners:
- Has managed four corporate buyout partnerships totaling more than $750 million in committed and invested capital.
- Invests in corporate buyouts, build-ups, spin-offs and industry consolidations.
- Focuses its investments on business services, specifically media and telecommunications and financial services, as well as general corporate buyouts.
- Has completed acquisitions with valuations ranging from $20 - $400 million.
- Has invested in 33 companies with an aggregate purchase valuation of approximately $3.7 billion since its founding in 1984.
- Pursues an investment strategy of investing with superior management teams in businesses with leading market positions, proprietary products and defendable market niches.
- Realizes investment gains over a three to seven year investment period through public offerings and outright sales.
- Sources investment opportunities through a proprietary network of long-term relationships and associations.
- Maintains an executive program of corporate CEOs for deal sourcing and evaluations, operating management, identification of follow-on acquisitions, and exits.
- Has historically led all investments, either through sole voting control or control in partnership with like-minded investors, but has recently expanded its investment criteria to include strategic minority interests in publicly held companies.
- Established itself as a wholly owned independent firm in September 1998.
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