Exploring Investment Opportunities

The Team, in collaboration with the advisors in the Iqcq Network, which are selected and retained along with the sectors, seeks to identify potential control or co-control equity investments in companies with strong or improving market positions, a significant potential for top-line and earnings growth and an engaged management team. In the middle-market segment, additional focus is on growth equity in the family- and entrepreneur owned businesses, corporate orphans and public-to-private transactions.

This work, in conjunction with opportunities originating from our Advisors, ensures a strong pipeline of possible transactions. Targeted companies should have the potential for improvement and value creation by investing in growth, performance improvement, and active participation in industry consolidation through add-on acquisitions.

The typical equity investment opportunity in the large-cap segment ranges between EUR 125 million and EUR 1,000 million, and in the mid-cap segment between EUR 40 million and EUR 125 million.

The focus is on finding companies with underlying competitive advantages, such as operational excellence, unique brand qualities and superior product characteristics – the essential building blocks of a strong market position. When assessing a company’s growth potential, an array of factors are considered, such as addressable market size, the potential for new products and geographical expansion, distribution channels and customer satisfaction.