Gainline Differentiator
20+ Year Track Record in the Middle Market
Value-orientation Focus on Complexity
Performance Driven by Professionalization
Primarily
<$250MM
Enterprise Values
Primarily
$5MM - $50MM
EBITDA
Primarily
U.S.
Geography
Key Characteristics
- Strong management team seeking meaningful ownership
- Defensible barriers to entry
- Identifiable growth opportunities or operational improvements
- Corporate carveouts and divestitures
- Existing or path to sustainable competitive advantage
Transaction Types
- Buyouts and Management Buyouts
- Recapitalizations
- Growth Equity
- Corporate carveouts and divestitures
- Add-on acquisitions
Representative Industries
- Business Services
- Niche Manufacturing
- Consumer
- Logistics and Transportation Services
The Gainline Strategy
Strong Fundamentals
Focus on businesses with strong fundamentals facing complex situations where Gainline can drive long term value.
First institutional capital
First institutional capital, seek out opportunities to professionalize and institutionalize businesses with prior owners and/or managers.
Control-oriented investments
Business services, niche consumer, and niche manufacturing sectors.
Middle market platforms
Generally, US-based middle market platforms with $5-50 million in EBITDA.
Management Teams of Companies
We take a partnership approach to backing founders / entrepreneurs / operators. Our 20-year track record of helping talented managers create long-term equity value for businesses like yours is distinguished and referenceable.
Intermediaries
We are a reliable and trustworthy partner for you and your clients. We have experience navigating a wide variety of transactions and situations. We are responsive, stay true to our word and provide certainty of close.
Limited Partners
We are good stewards of your capital. We have a clearly defined and differentiated strategy, and we put it to work to grow our clients’ capital as well as our own.
Executives
We find value in partnering with seasoned industry executives, and have utilized experts like you throughout our careers. We recognize the value you can bring to our portfolio companies and focus on aligning our relationship so you participate in the success you help us achieve.