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Lawen Partners is a buyout and growth capital investment firm focused on providing equity capital to small traditional information
and media companies. We specialize in initiating investment transactions requiring between $3 and $10 million of equity,
targeting information and media companies with revenues from under $10 million to exceeding $30 million. Typically,
these are established traditional businesses that operate very successfully below what is now called the lower middle market.
Our firm is managed by founding partners who have worked together on a daily basis building businesses in just this
way for over 20 years. We are the continuing buyout and growth capital team from two previous funds where we were directly
involved in investments in over 70 information and media transactions.
Our Approach
We see ourselves
as experienced trade craftsmen, working collaboratively as investment professionals, identifying and building small properties
across a wide range of industry segments that others ignore because of their size. We provide a support system for our portfolio
company management teams and connect them within our network of contacts built over more than two decades.
We are
particularly interested in working with operating managers who have a solid small property, proven skills, a reasonable plan
for growth and high personal integrity. We invest in small information and media companies throughout the United States. We
have no geographic preference.
As investors, we are less interested in achieving scale with a portfolio property
than in enhancing its connections with its customers and thus increasing its organically developed value. Small information
and media properties can effectively expand their user audience with relatively small capital investments. Small acquisitions
can also graft on additional “touch points” with specific complementary customer bases. These activities serve to develop
a business that is attractive to a much larger range of acquirers or capital providers than when we make our initial investment.
This is old-fashioned hands-on private equity practice to the core.
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