Our Business

Our Business

Private Equity

As the pioneer of a unique, operations-focused approach to private equity, Platinum seeks opportunities to help businesses achieve their full potential. We specialize in complex carve-outs, public-to-private transactions and acquisitions from private sellers. We then work with our companies to build market leaders and drive enterprise value through operational best practices, investments in growth and other transformational initiatives.

Diverse Industries & Transaction Types

As an industry agnostic firm investing for more than 28 years, we have extensive experience across a wide range of sectors and transaction types.

We handle a variety of complex transaction types including:

  • Corporate divestitures
  • Private
  • Public-to-private
  • Special situations
Diverse Industries & Transaction Types

M&A&O®

Our trademarked M&A&O® approach is a unique combination of people and process that integrates operations at the root level of everything we do. It is disciplined and process-oriented, and has been market- and cycle- tested for more than 28 years.

M&A&O® is a proprietary approach that helps us create value at every stage of an
investment, from beginning to end.

PRE-Transaction

transaction executed

Post-transaction

  • Transaction Sourcing

    The business development team sources and screens opportunities.

    ORIGINATION
  • M&A&O Analysis

    The M&A&O team is involved from the beginning, starting as early as the management presentation.

  • M&A&O Execution

    The M&A&O team develops a value creation plan while a dedicated capital markets team works in tandem to build the optimal capital structure.

  • Transition & Integration

    Portfolio Operations executes the plan created during diligence. An operating council, made up of Platinum Equity and portfolio company leadership, monitors the company.

  • Operations Management

    The portfolio Operations team works closely with management, applying an approach that typically requires an extended on-site presence.

  • Exit

    Once a company completes its transition, Platinum Equity's dedicated sell-side team works with the operating council to find the right monetization opportunities.

    EXIT

Continuous Add-Ons & Realizations

Teams collaborate and seek to execute value, creating add-ons and/or monetizations through ownership.

Level of Involvement

Business Development

M&A

M&A Operations

Capital Markets

Portfolio Operations

Sell-Side M&A

M&A&O® is a proprietary approach that helps us create value at every stage of an
investment, from beginning to end.

PRE-Transaction

Transaction Sourcing

The business development team sources and screens opportunities.

M&A&O Analysis

The M&A&O team is involved from the beginning, starting as early as the management presentation.

transaction executed

M&A&O Execution

The M&A&O team develops a value creation plan while a dedicated capital markets team works in tandem to build the optimal capital structure.

Transition & Integration

Portfolio Operations executes the plan created during diligence. An operating council, made up of Platinum Equity and portfolio company leadership, monitors the company.

Post-transaction

Operations Management

The portfolio Operations team works closely with management, applying an approach that typically requires an extended on-site presence.

Exit

Once a company completes its transition, Platinum Equity's dedicated sell-side team works with the operating council to find the right monetization opportunities.

Real Operators

Real Operators

The "O" is in our DNA. We have a large in-house team with real-world industry experience. M&A Operations professionals dig in to create value at the earliest stages of diligence, while Portfolio Operations specialists manage transitions and drive ongoing transformation programs. They know how to effect change from the ground up, with hands-on expertise across a broad range of functional areas.

Investment Capabilities and Access to Capital

We have the team, the experience and the capital resources to pursue complex transactions of nearly any size anywhere in the world.

  • $25.2 billion of capital committed across six buyout funds to date including our most recent funds Fund V and Small Cap Fund.
  • Experienced capital markets team with ability to provide range of traditional and creative financing solutions.

2021

$57B

Aggregate Transaction Value

Past 5 Years

$100B

Aggregate Transaction Value

Credit

Platinum’s dedicated credit team is actively deploying capital by applying Platinum’s M&A&O® investment strategy to the credit market. The team seeks opportunities to provide debt capital across all industries for a variety of uses, including acquisitions, refinancings and recapitalizations. Target companies generally have $15 to $75 million of EBITDA and are primarily based in North America.