“When my father, sister and I began to explore ways to grow Kidsline faster and generate capital for estate planning, we knew what we wanted to accomplish, but were less clear about the best way to get there. Century Park Capital made our decision easy. Their down-to-earth style, astute business sense, and extraordinarily creative and flexible proposal to acquire a minority interest in our company met our goals on all fronts. As testament of my confidence in them, I invested in their fund.”
Michael Levin
President & CEO
Kidsline, Inc. |
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BUSINESS OWNERS TYPICALLY KNOW WHAT THEY WANT to accomplish with respect to business growth, asset diversification, and lifestyle management. However, the path to achieving these goals is not always apparent. Century Park Capital works closely with business owners and management, providing the requisite experience, insight and equity capital to help them resolve such challenges as:
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| Diversify his or her net worth by taking some money out of the business, but retain an equity stake and remain active in the company |
Minority or majority recapitalization (usually 30% to 80% of the company’s stock) with dividend to owner
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• Cash to diversify portfolio
• Participation in future value
creation of company
• “Deep pocketed” partner
• Continue to run company
• No disruption of corporate
culture |
| Buying out his or her partner(s) |
Equity infusion in minority or majority control position to finance payout to selling partner(s) |
• Equity partner meets the needs
of both selling and remaining
shareholders
• Cash for remaining
shareholder(s) to diversify
portfolio(s)
• “Deep pocketed” partner
• Continue to run company
• No disruption of corporate
culture |
Accessing sufficient capital to grow organically and/or through acquisitions
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Equity infusion in minority or majority control position and introductions to mezzanine and/or senior lenders |
• Reduced financial risk
• Cash to achieve growth
• Cash to diversify portfolio
• Partner experienced at identify-
ing, negotiating and integrating
acquisitions
• “Deep pocketed” partner |
| Retiring and selling company |
Equity to facilitate management led buyout or buyout by key industry executive introduced by Century Park |
• No disruption of corporate
culture
• Management can participate in
ownership
• “Deep pocketed” partner
experienced at buyouts |
| Corporate divestitures |
Equity to facilitate management led buyout or buyout by key industry executive introduced by Century Park |
• No disruption of corporate
culture
• Management can participate in
ownership
• “Deep pocketed” partner
experienced at buyouts |
Once we have gained a thorough understanding of the business owner’s specific goals and challenges, we handcraft an investment structure to meet everyone’s objectives. We have the flexibility to invest on a minority interest or control basis and in the form of redeemable preferred, convertible preferred, common stock, or any combination thereof.
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