Experience Investing Private Equity Funds

The Riverside Company is one of the leading firms investing private equity funds in premier companies at the smaller end of the middle market. Riverside's investment professionals have extensive experience in all phases of the acquisition process, including sourcing and identifying potential acquisitions, negotiating with sellers, determining capital structure, arranging debt financing, supervising the legal documentation, and closing transactions. Over time, Riverside has developed a set of criteria that has served us well in guiding our investment decisions. When we consider a company for acquisition, we generally measure it against these criteria:

Significant and defensible share of a market
Operating profit margins exceeding 10%
Excellent management in place or identified
Diversified customer base without undue concentration
Record of sustainable profits and cash flow
Stable products not subject to rapid obsolescence
Operating profit of at least $3 million
Headquartered in North America
In operation for at least five years.

It takes a disciplined investment strategy to generate the high returns for which Riverside has become known among our investors. Experience and due diligence are vital. Our senior investment professionals have worked together since 1994 and have developed extensive experience in investing private equity funds. We have initiated, negotiated, financed, closed and managed dozens of investments in a wide range of industries. Since our inception in 1988, The Riverside Company has invested more than $300 million in equity capital in 62 transactions, including 30 platform companies and 32 add-on acquisitions across a variety of industries.

At Riverside, we inspire investor confidence with a core business philosophy and disciplined process that have yielded a long track record of success. In addition to four pre-1995 acquisitions, we have brought three private equity funds to market, attracting investors from pension funds, endowments, funds-of-funds, insurance companies and banks. By increasing the multiples at exit, Riverside earns superior returns. In fact, over the past 14 years, we have achieved returns well above the upper quartile of all buyout firms.*

We invite you to take a closer look at Riverside.

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