Investment Approach
Keeping things simple, speedy and smart.
Now Investing Fund IV
We concentrate on the U.S. lower middle-market.
Champlain Capital believes smaller companies have significantly higher growth potential than their size implies. We elevate untapped opportunities by crafting sustainable strategic plans, developing organizational capabilities, and improving functional operations to unlock hidden value. Our target: companies with revenues of $10 million to $100 million and EBITDA of $3 million to $15 million.
We invest in what we know.
We like to partner with companies in niche businesses, including consumer products, manufacturing, business services, healthcare and value-added distribution.
We help management go full throttle.
At Champlain, all the capital comes from one source — so as challenges occur or timely opportunities arise, management is ready to act quickly while staying prepared for the long term.
We ease the path for sellers.
Our team understands how selling a company can be complicated, filled with trade-offs, and exhausting to owners who have never faced this task. Whether the goal is to cash out and retire, or to retain both a financial stake and business involvement, we know how to make it happen with minimum stress or risk, and with maximum certainty.
We take a practical and thoughtful approach to our ESG Commitments.
We view responsible investing as a key priority for Champlain. This commitment to responsible investing enables our portfolio companies to be more successful. It’s also one more way that we help good, small companies become even better, more profitable businesses, resulting in superior returns for our investors.
Targeting companies ready for the next giant step.
Champlain Capital seeks investments of $25 million to $100 million in companies showing strong and consistent earnings, products valued by customers, defensible market positions, and solid organic growth potential. We only take a controlling interest, and we expertly lead the way forward.
Revenues of $10 million to $100 million
EBITDA of $3 million to $15 million
Expected hold period: 4 – 7 years
U.S.-based companies
One-Stop Solution – better for everyone!
Aligning everyone’s interests isn’t just talk at Champlain Capital, and one way we achieve it is by our unique approach to transaction funding. Our One-Stop Solution allows us to provide all the equity and debt required to purchase a company — all of it. This eliminates the need for restrictive third-party debt that can so often impede further growth.
Most importantly, our One-Stop Solution benefits all our key stakeholders. Champlain investors can realize excellent returns with lower financial risk and lower cost. Sellers benefit through our ability to create flexible transaction structures that maximize seller gains upon exit. Champlain portfolio management teams are not burdened by third-party lenders who have interests that are potentially adverse, so management can be nimbler and more adaptable to changing business needs.
