Ocean Merchant Industrial Partners S.r.l.

Ocean Merchant Industrial Partners specializes in club deals. The club deal is a kind of investment that adapts very well to the Italian industrial sector. It is characterized by the presence of multiple investors who collaborate together and, by pooling their financial resources according to a proportional share of the entire capital amount required by the project, invest in a specific company in order to support its growth. Once an agreement has been reached with the selling party (negotiations take place with the founder/owner of the company, who very often re-invests in the project) the club deal establishes a new company (i.e. the SPV) and invests. The number of these investors is limited and the club deal presents some substantial differences with private equity and investment funds: first of all, it shows greater flexibility and the investor can choose to finance only certain projects, without being asked for a preliminary -liquidity commitment. For entrepreneurs the advantage, in addition to the liquidity contribution, is to take advantage of the skills, contacts and experience of the ones who choose to invest in their company. Last but not least, the club deal is not subject to deadlines as it happens to private equity funds (3 -5 years) because the objective is to guarantee the time needed for a full industrial plan implementation and completion allowing the full valorisation of the investment.