Philosophy

Brynavon is a private investment company and not a traditional private equity group; the major differences are:

• Brynavon focuses exclusively on the ownership transition between a company’s existing ownership structure and a company’s management team, which often includes different generations of the same family. Within Brynavon’s current portfolio, managers and former managers own 20 – 49% of the equity and Brynavon owns the balance.
• Brynavon’s target market is comprised of companies with EBITDA of $1 – 4 million which is normally too large for an individual to acquire and too small to support the overhead of a private equity group.
• Brynavon invests private capital from its founding family and certain additional individuals. As a result, investments are made for the long-term and not to satisfy the usual short-term goals of private equity limited partners. Since 2006 Brynavon has divested five operations and the average investment time was 14.5 years.
• Investment decisions at Brynavon are not made by a committee of investors so indications of interest or valuation can be made rapidly.