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Office Locations:
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2 Greenwich Office Park Suite 300
Greenwich, CT 06831
Phone: 203-542-2870
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Business Services
Energy & Clean Tech
Life Sciences & Healthcare
Manufacturing & Industrial
Real Estate & Construction
Transportation & Distribution
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The Silverfern Group is an independently-owned Merchant Bank focused primarily on the Private Equity Sponsor community. Silverfern specializes in originating and structuring proprietary (non-auction) buy-side Mergers & Acquisitions opportunities, and through its affiliates, Silverfern Co-Investment Partners and the Silverfern Credit Opportunities Fund, in making equity co-investments and debt investments with relationship private equity firms and corporates worldwide. Silverfern Co-Investment Partners is a proprietary private equity co-investment vehicle that seeks to make equity co-investments in the range of $25 million to $150 million per transaction (SCIP's share) with leading private equity firms in buyouts, acquisitions and recapitalizations worldwide. Silverfern Credit Opportunities Fund provides flexible financing alternatives for leading companies and financial sponsors alike, investing up and down the capital structure with wide ($25mm - $500mm+) investment latitude. In 2009 Silverfern originated over 85 proprietary transaction opportunities for its Clients, representing $38 billion of Total Enterprise Value and the opportunity to deploy over $20 billion in equity capital. Silverfern also operates Silverfern Special Opportunities, a private equity co-investment vehicle that makes growth equity co-investments in the range of $5 million to $25 million with leading private equity firms in buyouts, acquisitions and recapitalizaitons worldwide. The team reviews more than 240 investment opportunities each year. The firm maintains offices in Frankfurt, Connecticut, and Sydney.
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Investment Firm Key
VC = Venture Capital
PE = Private Equity
A = Angel
I = Incubator
MB = Merchant Bank
VD = Venture Debt
FI = Family Investment Office
FOF = Fund of Funds
ED = Economic Development Office
TT = Technology Transfer Office
CVC = Corporate Venture Capital
SEC = Secondary Purchaser
HF = Hedge Fund/Mutual Fund
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COMPANY STAGE | REVENUE |
Venture Capital | |
Seed Stage (includes "pre-seed," or concept stage) | No Revenue |
Early Stage | Minimal Revenue |
Growth Stage (also called Mid-stage) | $2M-$7M |
Expansion Stage (also called Late-stage) | $7M and greater |
Private Equity | |
Lower Middle Market | $10M-$249M |
Middle Market | $250M-$499M |
Upper Middle Market | $500M-$1B |
Large Cap | >$1B |
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