Investment Strategy
We invest in and work alongside experienced operational managers with strong track records. We do this by offering the kind of support normally available only to much larger companies, including corporate finance and advice, infrastructure support and a full range of management services.
Marwyn looks for opportunities in diverse sectors and investment cycles, usually in the European small and mid cap markets.
Marwyn is currently operating two distinct investment strategies.
Our value investment proposition is predicated on the belief that significant value can be created in selected industries through a process of timely consolidation. Marwyn has honed a keen understanding of this process and how to pursue it in public markets.
Marwyn Value Investors (formerly Marwyn Neptune Fund LP) focuses on defensive, cash generative sectors with opportunities for the creation of value enhancing events. The fund follows a “buy-and-build” model, using publicly quoted special purpose acquisition vehicles to execute acquisition-led growth strategies.
The preference is for sectors influenced by regulatory or structural change where we see opportunities to create value. These include conventional regulated industries, such as environmental services, gaming and financial services, as well as sectors undergoing specific structural change, such as media distribution, training, leisure and food manufacture.
Seperately, Marwyn has developed a unique approach to distressed investing. We believe there is a shift in emphasis away from narrow financial investment skills and debt instruments towards management skills and equity funding. Structured financing as part of an operationally-focused investment strategy has the potential to create superior returns by bringing real benefits to distressed businesses that have seen their franchises threatened by the scarcity of lending capacity.
Marwyn Alternative Capital will provide convertible debt and structured equity to otherwise sound European companies that are experiencing stressed or distressed valuations as a result of short-term liquidity or refinancing problems.