Falconhead Capital focuses on making operationally-intensive control investments in small to lower middle-market consumer-oriented companies. The firm invests globally with particular emphasis on the leisure, lifestyle, sports and media industries. Falconhead Capital employs a proactive operating approach that seeks to create value by targeting transactions in niche growth verticals in which they can leverage their financial, operational and strategic resources to help businesses pursue growth opportunities and other value building strategies. The firm's thematic, research-driven investment process seeks to identify intrinsic values in smaller businesses and to provide strategic guidance, investment capital and domain expertise to help companies grow. Falconhead Capital looks for consumer-oriented companies with high growth potential, revenues of $20 million to $150 million and EBITDA of $5 million to $30 million.Falconhead Capital targets verticals with: (1) higher-than-average growth rates (2) favorable, long-term demographic fundamentals (3) emerging products or services (4) market inefficiencies (5) consolidation opportunities in fragmented markets and (6) operational value add. The firm's typical strategic operating plans focus on: (1) developing and supporting new revenue growth strategies (2) strengthening management teams (3) supporting technology and infrastructure upgrades (4) add-on acquisitions (5) making high level sales contacts on companies' behalf (6) establishing improved financial systems and controls and (7) recruiting high quality board members.Equity investments generally range from $10 million to $50 million per transaction and up to $100 million along with co-investors. Falconhead Capital invests in a variety of types of investments including LBOs, MBOs, growth equity financings and industry consolidations. The firm typically holds their investments for 3 to 7 years.
