The Riverside Philosophy
At The Riverside Company, we employ a focused business philosophy to our portfolio company acquisitions. This approach includes:
- An emphasis on the smaller end of the middle market
- A talented and experienced team of professionals
- Positive partnerships with portfolio companies' management
We acquire companies at the smaller end of the middle market.
Riverside acquires industry-leading companies at the smaller end of the middle market — generally €15 million to €150 million enterprise value. Our expertise is manufacturing and service companies; we generally avoid start-ups, venture capital, and companies with regulatory risk or focused in the high tech industries.
We rely on our talented and experienced team of professionals.
Riverside is an organization built to manage smaller company transactions. To that end, our staff consists of investment professionals who are experienced in all phases of the acquisition process: sourcing and identifying potential acquisitions, negotiating with sellers, determining capital structure, arranging debt financing, supervising the legal documentation, and closing transactions.
We establish positive partnerships with company management.
At Riverside, we regard ourselves as partners with the management of each portfolio company. We believe management should have strong financial incentives to increase the portfolio company's equity value. Those incentives may include an ownership stake, which can be purchased and/or earned over time by achieving performance goals. This provides managers with long-term equity incentives while affording them day-to-day operational freedom.