Invested in More Than 80 Businesses Since 2000

Private Equity:

New Mountain’s private equity strategy seeks to acquire the highest quality leaders in carefully selected defensive growth industries, and then to build those businesses. New Mountain acquires controlling stakes in defensive growth industries, generally investing between $100 million and $500 million per transaction in companies with enterprise values typically between $100 million and $1 billion.

Strategic Equity:

New Mountain’s strategic equity strategy follows the same defensive growth strategy as the private equity business in order to acquire minority, non-control equity stakes when majority control is not available.

New Mountain seeks to invest in companies generally characterized by:

Market leadership in sustainable and noncyclical growth niches

Strong free cash flow characteristics

High barriers to competitive entry

Strong downside protection in all reasonable worst-case scenarios

The opportunity for substantial value creation due to rapid growth or special factors existing at the time of the investment

New Mountain emphasizes growth and business building, rather than excessive risk and debt, as the best path to private equity returns. The Firm generally uses debt moderately at the time of acquisition (and in some cases, has used no debt at all) and New Mountain has never had a private equity portfolio company bankruptcy or missed an interest payment. The Firm has consistently identified industries top down and has sought to pursue businesses proactively before auction processes begin.

Once an investment is made, New Mountain works to help management add value to its companies in order to create much larger and more profitable new mountains in their own industries.

 

New Mountain’s Primary Sectors of Focus:

Advanced Materials / Niche Product Technologies

“Must Have” Information and Data

Technology-Enabled Business Services

Human Capital Management / Future of Work

Financial Services / Technologies

Specialized Software

Defensive Growth Consumer / Products

Healthcare Cost Containment, Quality, and Access

Infrastructure Services / Field Services

Digital Marketing / Transformation

Adding Value

New Mountain has helped management teams add value in a range of ways, including:

Providing growth capital

Increasing management ownership

Developing and supporting new growth strategies

Seeking out, supporting, and executing add-on acquisitions

Strengthening management teams

Supporting technology and infrastructure upgrades

Supporting increased research and development

Making high-level sales contacts on the company's behalf

Establishing strong financial Wall Street coverage and support

Establishing improved financial systems and controls

Recruiting high-quality board members

Implementing digital technologies

Expanding into new markets