MERK Capital Corporation

Overview

MERK Capital Corporation is an operationally-oriented private equity firm based in Chicago, Illinois. The firm specializes in providing equity investments to middle-market businesses with strong management teams, focusing on optimizing shareholder value and facilitating strategic, operational, and financial objectives across key industry sectors. Their investment approach emphasizes intelligent acquisitions and seamless integrations to transform good businesses into great companies. The firm's investment strategy is dedicated to helping businesses optimize shareholder value, facilitate their strategic, operational, and financial objectives across key industry sectors, and engage with companies where they have a shared vision for their business. Their investments are focused on several industries where they capitalize on their expertise – these include packaging, consumer products, food, building material, aerospace, and business services related businesses. MERK Capital's professionals utilize best-in-class pre-acquisition due diligence, post-acquisition integration, and business transformation models to create and execute optimization strategies and/or initiatives for their respective investments and add-on acquisitions. Their partners have, over the course of their careers, invested or advised in over 100 companies deploying over $4.5 billion of investment capital. The firm's success depends on the same basic values that contribute to the success of any business: hard work, common sense, teamwork, and integrity. They strive to create a culture that fosters such values. Their goal is to ensure that companies perform at the absolute optimal level. Experience demonstrates that the most effective way to achieve this goal is by making available to each portfolio company all of the intellectual and monetary capital that the business can prudently handle; creating an environment of dedication and excitement in which managers are not afraid to take the risks necessary for superior results; developing strategic and tactical plans designed to increase the commercial value of the enterprise for the long term; and ensuring that managers and employees share in the rewards of their successful efforts.

Investment Focus

• Strong management teams
• Established businesses with growth potential
• Companies in key industry sectors such as packaging, consumer products, food, building materials, aerospace, and business services