Description

Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust operates as a private investment firm, concentrating on diverse funding strategies including management-led buyouts, expansion capital, opportunities across the lower and middle market, later-stage enterprises, industry consolidation efforts, and established businesses. The firm consciously avoids investments in distressed turnaround situations and nascent start-ups. While open to a broad spectrum of industries, Alaris specifically excludes those with a diminishing asset base, such as certain oil and gas ventures, or sectors vulnerable to rapid obsolescence, like high technology. Its preferred focus areas include business, professional, information, and healthcare services, alongside distribution & logistics, industrial companies, and consumer products, prioritizing industries that exhibit stable performance rather than pronounced cyclical swings. Alaris provides capital to companies seeking partial liquidity, generational transfers, recapitalization, or growth funding, especially when these businesses wish to maintain control and limit exposure to high leverage. It often favors enterprises under individual or family control. The firm's model involves offering distinctive alternative financing to a diversified group of private companies, referred to as its "Private Company Partners," in exchange for royalties or distributions. This approach is designed to produce steady and predictable cash flows for dividend payments to its own shareholders. Geographically, Alaris targets investments in Europe and North America, with a primary focus on Canada and the United States. Typical investments fall between $5 million and $100 million, targeting companies with enterprise values ranging from $10 million to $400 million and EBITDA between $5 million and $50 million, generally requiring a historical EBITDA in excess of $10 million, coupled with low debt and capital expenditure levels. For smaller companies, the firm can invest up to $20 million if historical EBITDA surpasses $2 million, and larger deals can be structured to incorporate additional capital. Notably, the firm does not acquire equity ownership (shares) nor does it seek board representation. Its investment approach involves deploying capital from its balance sheet to earn equity dividend distributions from its portfolio. It is flexible with its ownership stake, considering non-controlling equity, minority, or even majority positions. Alaris Royalty Corp. was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.