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Investment Profile

ABLS is looking for businesses that fit the following criteria:

Characteristics of the Company:

  • items or services that are vital
  • recurrent revenue or a high level of free cash flow
  • strong management teams and investors who share our objectives
  • substantial competitive advantages, market positions that can be defended, and widespread product adoption
  • financial structures with a sufficient margin of safety
  • Investing theses that may be verified with extensive due diligence
  • even in less than ideal operating conditions, identifiable acquirers
  • Although it is based in North America, it may have international operations.

Investment Size:

  • From tens of millions of dollars to one hundred and twenty-five million dollars
  • With co-investments and limited partners, you can get a lot more money.

Deal Types:

  • buyouts by management
  • initiatives for growth
  • reorganisations (including dividend recaps)
  • refinancing of the balance sheet
  • generational transfers and ownership shifts
  • buy-and-build strategies are a type of buy-and-build strategy that involves
  • mergers and acquisitions (M&A) or industry consolidation

Size of Business:

  • $10 million to $500 million in enterprise value

Structure:

  • a variety of instruments, such as equity, subordinated debt, or a hybrid of the two
  • We only invest in subordinated debt when we have a strong ownership stake in the transaction.

Not Considered:

  • Financing for startups, real estate, financial institutions or underwriters, energy products, and project finance are just a few examples.