Value Creation

We Help Our Portfolio Companies to Get Where They Want to Go

We believe in backing quality management teams and supporting them behind the scenes. Our CEOs run the day-to-day, but we are there to offer our complete range of resources as needed. Although the level of involvement varies from one portfolio company to the next, LMM can assume an active role in developing growth-oriented strategic and operating initiatives with management. At times, such involvement may call for input regarding acquisition identification and implementation, comparative benchmarking or investigation of a new financing strategy. Upon acquisition, important value-added initiatives and services we provide may include:
Product and Service Enhancement
  • Review product or service offerings and implement organic new or improved offerings
  • Execute add-on acquisitions to enhance company offering suite
Operational Improvement
  • Review or develop supplier evaluation and sourcing programs
  • Analyze cost structure and productivity
  • Institute safety standards
  • Implement lean manufacturing as necessary
Geographic Expansion
  • Implement geographic expansion initiatives through organic growth or M&A strategies; gain access to new markets, customers and talent pools, reduce costs and diversify country-specific risks
Marketing Upgrade
  • Rationalize marketing channels and end markets
  • Enhance/professionalize sales force
  • Revise sales team compensation structures
  • Review and update website, marketing materials and social media
Management Enhancement
Financial Controls & IT Systems
  • Augment management teams
  • Create incentive plan that aligns manager and owner interests
  • Institute a Board of Directors
  • Ability to fill in interim management positions when needed
  • Proprietary network of relationships to assist the firm
  • Professionalize information systems
  • Monitoring of daily sales, cash and debt pay down
  • Management of monthly financial reports, key operating metrics and benchmarking
  • Review of the capital structure and working capital
  • Institute budgeting and forecasting processes
  • Implement internal controls