INVESTMENT

CRITERIA

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

At Hawk Capital, we strive to invest in the highest quality lower middle market businesses and management teams. We prefer investing in well established businesses with world-class management teams, sustainable competitive advantages, strong and stable cash flows, moderate capital expenditure needs and industries/sectors that can weather cyclical downturns.

In general, we look to acquire businesses that have as many of the following characteristics as possible:

Stable and dependable cash flow, low indebtedness, a solid asset base that provides risk mitigation, a strong management team interested in remaining and becoming part of something larger, opportunity for strategic redirection, an unrealized market opportunity, and opportunity to improve operational performance.

TARGET FINANCIALS

Current financials
$ in millions
annual revenues
$5-40
annual ebitda
$1-8
enterprise values
< $50

TARGET INDUSTRIES

Distribution

Food and Beverage

Industrial and Branded
Consumer Goods and Services

Direct Marketing and
Web based Businesses

Manufacturing

Professional Services

Energy Services

Financial and Leasing
Companies

TARGET GEOGRAPHY

mid-atlantic region
southeast region