Lynwood Capital Partners, Inc. is a private equity firm with offices in Denver and Santa Barbara focused on acquiring or investing in middle-market businesses with revenues of $5 - $75 million. The firm and its principals have a successful 20-year track record of operating and growing such companies in a variety of industries. We are not institutional in approach, do not have arbitrary “exit” time horizons, are keenly aware of the issues involved in company building and a company sale process as Lynwood’s principals have both managed and sold companies, and are highly flexible with regard to transaction structure and terms.

What makes Lynwood different?

Lynwood has no investment “formula” or investment limitations and can structure transactions to meet the highly specific needs of company owners, family members, management team members, and other constituencies with a stake in a transaction. We are also willing to invest in many situations that would not meet the criteria of other professional investors. These situations may include smaller transactions with companies that have exceptional prospects, niche market companies with total market opportunities less than $50 million, no asset value service businesses, and other special situations, including turnarounds.

Our objective

Our objective is to acquire established companies, in partnership with management teams and/or other investors, as appropriate. We are willing to make both control and minority investments. Lynwood Capital and its principals have invested in a variety of companies across many industries with a variety of transaction structures encompassing minority growth equity investments to majority control leveraged acquisitions.

Investing in your company to maximize its value

The principals of Lynwood Capital have a deep appreciation for the challenges and complexity of growing a company and seek to bring their expertise and experience to management teams at the Board of Directors level. We focus on the long-term success of our portfolio companies. We work actively to invest resources to maximize company value. This investment can take the form of helping recruit senior management, identifying and negotiating acquisitions, formulating strategy, and financing growth. In specific situations such as a strategic acquisition or a major restructuring of a company’s distribution channel, individual Lynwood Capital principals with direct experience are ready and willing to provide hands-on assistance to management teams. However, Lynwood Capital’s philosophy is to allow managers of its portfolio companies a very high degree of operating autonomy.