1. Ipocampus Holding Odoni Partner is not in the business of placing money with other funds or investment managers to manage.
2. Ipocampus Holding Odoni Partner is not in the money management, brokerage or securities business.
3. Ipocampus Holding Odoni Partner is a “strategic advisor” and “investor” in private equity transactions with a focus on the Energy, Industrial, Technology and Security sectors.
Strategy
Ipocampus Holding Odoni Partner underwrites the equity portion of a transaction, both directly and through its core group family offices on a deal-by-deal and no-fee basis – allowing its partner clients the opportunity to co-invest in its equity transactions. A model that reflects its preferences for investment discretion, where many high-net-worth investors are hands-on business owners themselves.
When debt financing is required to structure an optimum transaction, it is provided by the wide array of leading financial institutions with whom Ipocampus Holding Odoni Partner has deep relationships with.
Although far from formulaic, Ipocampus Holding Odoni Partner’s private equity transactions share some basic features.
Once it makes an investment, it works with companies management to revitalize the business — making it more productive, more competitive, and more profitable. It does so by streamlining operations, investing in future growth, and growing the top and bottom lines for the benefit of all stakeholders, including employees, customers, suppliers, and the communities in which its businesses operate.
Ipocampus Holding Odoni Partner approaches business and investments as industrialists. The Firm works closely with the management teams of companies that have strong business franchises, attractive growth prospects, leading market positions, and the ability to generate superior returns and stay deeply involved in the operations of the businesses, providing them with substantial resources over an average investment period of three to five years.
Investment Scope
Ipocampus Holding Odoni Partner is particularly interested in backing and co-investing with other investment groups in private plays of established companies all across the U.A.E., China, India , select Africa and Latin America.
Ipocampus Holding Odoni Partner is not a lender nor a securities broker dealer. Only a strategic advisor and private equity investor.
Ipocampus Holding Odoni Partner likes to particularly back rollups, consolidations and buildups, along with growth capital financing throughout the asset class categories. The Firm is industry agnostic and does invest globally as long as it is dealing with the right “operators”.
General Criteria
Deal Makers
1. Companies run by operators with significant skin in the game – cash of their own – not sweat equity.
2. Companies growing rapidly with expectations to continue for the next three years of at least 20% a year and 20% EBITDA margins.
3. Companies generating at least $10 million in revenue for year seeking funding.
4. Companies with minimum free cash flow (EBITDA) of $2 million upon funding and at the outset. No limit on the upside.
5. Roll-up Opportunities
Deal Breakers
1. Capital raising for Funds
2. Start-ups with no revenues – Idea stage
3. Films and motion pictures
4. Greenfield, development and project finance opportunities
5. Public companies
Results
Everything the Firm does is guided by a set of principles that define its character and culture; they have been at the core of Ipocampus Holding Odoni Partner since its inception. These enduring qualities are the shared convictions that we as partners bring to our professional and personal conduct – they are a fundamental strength of our business.
Understanding the value of your business and intellectual property is essential for many reasons including long-term planning, mergers and acquisitions, proactive legal guard, estate planning and retirement. Our team provides professional business valuations that are objective, timely and cost-efficient, using strategies to address the complexities of a valuation for tax, business and personal purposes.
Businesses and creditors are concerned with a wide range of risks that can arise either within the company itself or externally. Risks include management or employee fraud, personal injury claims, product liability lawsuits, natural disasters, and business failures of key suppliers. 
Internal control review is important for strategic sourcing, risk management, fraud prevention and quality assessment. Our team brings objectivity to your internal control processes to improve your organization’s operations, help you maintain an effective system and meet government and accounting requirements.
