Quadrivio Funds target Italian market/niche leaders or companies which have the potential to become market/niche leaders.

• Through international growth;
• through consolidation processes in its market;
• with an active contribution of Quadrivio's management.

The preference is given to target companies

• With a higher return on the capital invested
• that for their growth require limited investment in fixed assets
• where the creation of value could be reached even with an intervention on the organisational and financial structure of companies, and even through clear mechanism of incentive of the management.

Quadrivio Q2 is a generalist fund with some sectorial focuses

• The management team believes that the best investment opportunities in Italy still lie within the food&beverage segment , in the production and distribution of products of high design (excluding fashion), in the modernisation of distribution, in the services Business-to-Business, in services Business-to-Business, in financial services, niche FMCGs and specialised machinery.

The Fund positively values coinvestment opportunities with other operators, both financial and industrial, that could potentially bring added value to the partecipate. These opportunities leverage on:

• Important financial relations that the management has abroad, especially in the USA and in Asia;
• Relations with other operators of private equity.

The Fund does not invest in

• Start-up companies;
• Companies that requie a high turnaround

The objective is to complete roughly 10 investiments during the life of the Fund

• With an equity ticket in a range between 5 and 15 million Euro for each investment, including add-on investments:
• normally in companies with an enterprise value between 20 and 100 million Euro.

Buy-out and buy-in in association with managers of proven experience

• On the basis of an industrial project shared among partners and managers;
• A total alignment of interests with the management both at the moment of the investment and at the moment of sale.

Corporate divestiture

• In case of handing over assets insufficiently valued;
• With a management able to independently develop the company from a corporate structure.

Growth Capital investments

• On the basis of the track record of management in the specific sector;
• With a structure of investment that is such to maximise the return in terms of cash and to have a clear way out from the investment.