Southern Capital Group

Overview

Southern Capital Group is a private equity firm that focuses on control buyouts of high-growth middle-market businesses in Southeast Asia. The firm has a successful track record of acquiring and growing businesses with enterprise values between US$20 million and $200 million. Operating from offices in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Southern Capital specializes in leveraged buyouts of companies that leverage Asia's strengths, including a large and fast-growing domestic consumer market and its competitive edge as a major manufacturing and services hub. The firm's investment strategy targets sectors such as specialized financial services, value-added manufacturing, business process outsourcing, consumer products and services—including food & beverage, healthcare—and selected infrastructure. Southern Capital's investment team comprises professionals with diverse backgrounds in private equity, industry, finance, and consulting, enabling the firm to deliver superior private equity returns on a repeatable basis. Southern Capital aims to deliver consistent long-term equity returns to its investors, which include leading financial institutions, public pension plans, endowments, family offices, and charitable foundations. The firm has delivered investment performance in excess of 25% per annum on equity invested in its target area of Southeast Asia since its inception. Southern Capital has been the lead or sole investor in all of its investments, believing that this approach allows the firm to be the main driver of key strategic decisions to add value to its portfolio companies. The firm develops tailored plans in conjunction with company management and stakeholders, defining a set of critical initiatives to execute over the lifetime of the investment, ranging from strategy to operations improvement, all designed to create material shareholder value.

Investment Focus

• Control buyouts
• High-growth middle-market businesses
• Enterprise value between US$20 million and $200 million
• Sectors: specialized financial services, value-added manufacturing, business process outsourcing, consumer products and services (food & beverage, healthcare), selected infrastructure

Portfolio Companies