For Business Owners and Intermediaries

Partnering with Owners and Management Teams
Empeiria's approach to making and managing investments is informed by its principals' long history of partnering with small and medium sized companies.  We understand business owners' concerns and motivations.  For most owners, a sale is among the most important transactions in their lifetime, so we endeavor to make it a professional, fair, positive, and worthwhile experience.  

​We see our roles as primarily the following:
  • Provide liquidity or a path to liquidity to business owners.  We offer the flexibility of tailoring a transaction to fit differing shareholder interests and liquidity objectives.
  • Offer existing owners an opportunity to participate in further upside in the business.  Owners and managers can do so via a combination of continuing equity interests, contingent payments/"earnouts", stock option grants, and annual performance bonuses.
  • Assemble a team of talented and motivated executives who are given the mandate and financial support to take the company to the next level.
  • Provide strategic guidance and support at the Board of Directors level. We do not manage the day-to-day activities of our portfolio companies.  Rather, our goal is to use the relationships we have developed and the lessons we have learned over the course of our 150+ years of collective investing and operating experience to assist and guide a portfolio company through good and bad economic times.
  • Take a long term perspective that enables a company to ride out economic cycles and create value.  While our investors eventually desire to realize a profitable investment, we are not limited by the "end of fund life" constraints that sometimes compel traditional private equity funds to liquidate investments before their full potential is achieved.
  • Take a leadership role in sourcing and executing add-on acquisitions and investing in organic growth initiatives.   Empeiria's principals have executed more than 50 add-on acquisitions for over 20 platform companies.
We use our 150+ years of collective investing and operating experience to assist and guide a portfolio company through good and bad economic times

Working with Intermediaries
Empeiria welcomes ideas and introductions from investment bankers, business brokers, and other intermediaries. We are responsive and flexible in structuring creative approaches to complex transaction dynamics.

We work closely with sell-side advisors and financing sources as well as routinely pay buy-side fees in the event you have an idea, but do not have the sell-side engagement.  Also, when we look to exit a portfolio company, we will hire a sell-side advisor to help us execute the transaction.
Do not hesitate to contact us at any time if you think there is an opportunity that could be a good fit with Empeiria.
We are responsive and flexible in structuring creative approaches to complex transaction dynamics