INVESTMENT STRATEGY
Accel-KKR engages primarily in the following three types of transactions:Acquisitions and recapitalizations of private companies. We pursue investments in private companies that prefer to remain private or do not currently have the scale and/or growth profile to access the public markets, but whose shareholders desire liquidity and/or access to growth capital, including acquisition financing. These companies often will not have venture or traditional institutional investors, and will often include founder and family owned businesses.
Acquisitions of public company assets. Accel-KKR seeks to acquire subsidiaries, business units or operating assets of existing public companies. Specifically, we target assets that are considered, or are likely to be considered, non-core assets. These will typically include businesses with business models that are inconsistent and/or incompatible with the parent and may have been underinvested in for some period.
Going-private transactions involving small/micro-cap public companies. Accel-KKR pursues going-private transactions in public companies that are either subscale for the public markets or whose management teams have a business plan that is most appropriately executed as a private company. We generally seek to work with existing management teams to affect a management-supported buyout. Accel-KKR will also pursue opportunities to acquire companies in need of meaningful organizational and/or operational change.
