What We Do

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Investment Criteria

We invest our private family capital in businesses with high-quality management teams who have the desire to build the company and share meaningfully in its success. Our ideal partner has strong competitive positions, attractive growth opportunities, and a history of profitability and consistent, predictable cash flow.

What to Expect

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Transaction

While there is no one-size-fits-all for any transaction, each working relationship we initiate is grounded in trust with a high-level of agreement on valuation and transaction structure. Our aim is always to purchase a majority interest, with 100% ownership preferred.

Transition

We seek to ensure a relatively seamless post-closing transition for our company’s employees, customers and suppliers. To facilitate this, we meet with key internal and external stakeholders throughout the process to allow everyone involved to get a sense of the caliber of our group as well as the support and stability we intend to provide.

Involvement

We are not involved in the day-to-day operations of our portfolio companies. Rather, we acquire companies with excellent management teams and give them substantial autonomy. Our companies can draw upon our team and resources, and leverage our broad network of working relationships as needed. We also provide board-level strategic support.

Operations

Unlike a traditional private equity fund, we do not make operational changes in order to drive short-term returns. Potential shifts could include professional services relationships as needed and only if advantageous to the business.

Employees

Encore One is committed to the care of our companies’ team members. Post-closing, we will review employment
agreements and compensation structures to best align management’s goals and rewards with ours.
To facilitate a smooth transition, we typically mirror our companies’ pre-closing benefits programs.