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GFI Energy Ventures is looking for companies that provide products or services relating
to:
- Power Quality/Power
Conversion
- Energy Measurement
and Control
- Transmission and
Distribution Optimization
- Energy Market Information
Systems and Transaction Support
While many other energy
investors have focused on generation assets (upstream markets); GFI targets
the downstream portion of the market with emphasis on the point of interface
among the energy supplier, transporter, marketer, and industrial/commercial
end-users.Selected companies
should have sustainable competitive advantages, annual revenues of at least $50 million, an enterprise value of $50-500 million, and key elements of an in-place management team.
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GFI Energy Ventures is a long-term investor. We believe strongly in establishing and maintaining
a financial structure that facilitates growth rather than maximizing leverage. GFI's extensive industry
contacts and market expertise are a resource to take portfolio companies
to the next level in their development.GFI provides the financing
and transaction expertise to facilitate acquisitions which expand product
offerings, strengthen sales channels, add complementary technology, or
otherwise help make a portfolio company into an industry leader.Working together,
GFI portfolio companies enjoy benefits of scale, market strength, and
market reach not otherwise available to them in such areas as parts procurement,
insurance coverage, cross selling and channel management, OEM relationships,
and the like.
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GFI Energy Ventures acquires controlling interests in private companies, supports the buyouts
of business units from public companies, and gains significant positions
in public companies that can benefit from the changes taking place in the
energy industry. Through these investments and our interaction with GFI's
portfolio companies, we work to maximize company value for all shareholders. Circumstances will
vary but we target annual return on our investment of 25-35%. We are not
committed to a particular liquidity strategy or timetable but take a long
view, looking for the optimum time to realize value for all shareholders,
including management.
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While GFI Energy Ventures does not run these companies directly, we are far more than passive
investors. Through Board representation and informal interaction, we assist
the companies in the GFI portfolio through our extensive industry contacts
and market knowledge, and by facilitating collaboration among companies
in which we invest. GFI views the management
of acquired companies as partners. In all cases, management participates
as equity holders or option holders in the success of the business.
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The principals have held major positions in the energy industry for many
years, serving as senior officers and advisors to regulated companies, equipment
suppliers, and important energy end-users in the United States and beyond.
GFI Energy Ventures's principals have ongoing strategic relationships with the executives
of more than half of the 50 largest investor-owned electric and gas utilities
and power marketers in North America. Internationally, they have advised
many of the regional electric companies in the UK and continental Europe
as well as several public and private entities in Australia. GFI's principals are
the authors of widely quoted forecasts of industry trends, drawing on
their breakthrough analyses of the predictable patterns through which
the electric, gas, telecommunications, banking, railroad, and other historically
regulated industries move on the way to market competition.GFI's exclusive focus
is the energy industry. This enables GFI and its principals to leverage
many years of experience and relationships to make confident, rapid decisions
about market dynamics, the competitive prospects of companies and their
products, and potential investments.
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