Our focus

Verdoso actively seeks investment opportunities in companies that have strong underlying businesses but may suffer from inappropriate capital structures or operating weaknesses. Such transactions may benefit from financial/operational turnaround or restructuring of the company.

Verdoso helps to design and implement strategies and action plans which improve the sustainable performance of the companies and are consistent with the interests of all the shareholders.

Involvement

Verdoso seeks to add value to its portfolio companies by actively assisting the management in the change management processes in order to enhance business operations.

Industries

Verdoso takes a generalist approach to investing and will consider investment opportunities in a variety of industries. All opportunities rely on industrial processes, as opposed to high-tech or creative activity

Characteristics

Verdoso looks for investment opportunities which exhibit many of the following characteristics :

• Companies with revenues up to €200 million
• Value-creating action plan for which the management has the ownership and will lead the execution
• Viable core business model, despite current structural, transitional, financial and / or operational weaknesses
• Companies with operating problems that can be identified isolated and fixed. These may include right sizing, rescaling, or reorienting operations, meaningful capital projects and opportunities to reduce costs. To each problem will correspond an action plan
• Companies with financial problems as result of capital structure which may be inappropriate given the current performance of the business

Transaction size

Verdoso makes equity investments between 1M€ to 10M€. Verdoso will also co-invest with outside equity sponsors or former shareholders in larger transactions

Transaction structure

Verdoso is flexible in terms of acquisition structure, including purchasing assets, bankruptcies, divisional carve-outs, and recapitalisations.