$10-100M

REVENUE

$3-20M

EBITDA

$25-100M*

EQUITY INVESTMENTS

* Limited partners capable of providing significant additional resources for larger investments
(e.g. $212m equity investment in GLG)

INDUSTRIAL AND LIFE SCIENCES TECHNOLOGY

FOCUS AREAS

  • Instrumentation, sensors, and measuring devices
  • Life sciences tools and laboratory products
  • Labs and Test, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) services
  • Outsourced pharmaceutical services
  • Reagents, consumables, specialty chemicals, and kits
  • Laboratory and industrial automation
  • Industrial or life sciences software

END MARKETS

  • Biopharmaceutical
  • Food, Agriculture, and Beverage
  • Discrete & Process Manufacturing
  • Electronics
  • Transportation and Logistics
  • Aerospace & Defense
  • Energy, Power, and Utilities

SFW invests across all end markets; the ones listed above represent examples.

TRANSACTION TYPES

  • Recapitalizations of founder-owned and family businesses
  • Management-led and complete buyouts
  • Corporate carve-outs / divestitures
  • Public-to-private transitions
  • Partnerships with strategic or financial buyers
  • Significant minority transactions
  • Add-on acquisitions for select portfolio companies (strategic fit is more important than size or profitability)

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