Our Investments

As a direct co-control investor, Silverfern employs an active diversification strategy to generate superior risk-adjusted returns, seeking to mitigate systemic risk through geographic diversification, while managing local market risk through industry and asset class diversification. Silverfern partners with qualified, in-market, on-the-ground, locally expert investment partners who we select in every investment we make. By partnering with investors who we know and trust well, we can effectively be “local” in everything we do globally.

Silverfern believes that its ability to understand complex situations by drawing on the industry specialization and deep local market knowledge embedded in its two global information networks and to apply multiple transaction structures to address such opportunities, enables it to develop deep investment insights and to act as a globally diversified industry specialist, avoiding competition from both strategic and financial buyers and clearly distinguishing Silverfern from generalist firms and investors.

Silverfern has demonstrated expertise in a wide variety of transaction structures and acquisition scenarios, including take private transactions (e.g., SAI Global Ltd (ASX), APR Energy plc (LSE) and Club Méditerranée SA (EPA)), broken auctions (e.g., Broad River and Chilean Power Assets), company owners seeking financial partners that can help maximize their future exit valuations (e.g., Paladone and Waste Services Group), uncovering unique value (e.g., APR Energy and Broad River), off-market investments with attractive risk/reward characteristics (e.g., Broad River, Tidewater, and Waste Services Group) and the formation of new entities to exploit episodic opportunities (e.g., LocusPoint and Sequitur Energy).

Silverfern has a solid investment track record of twenty-nine (29) global private equity and private equity-real estate platform investments, including:

• Sixteen (16) full exits; seven (7) partial exits
• Twelve (12) private equity investments and one private equity-real estate investment currently being managed
• Investment geographies include: United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, UK
• Investment industries include: Consumer, Energy/Exploitation & Production, Food, Hospitality, Medical Services and Supplies, Maintenance and Remedial Services, Power Equipment Rental, Power Production, Transportation, and Waste Management

Select Prior Silverfern Investments Include:

Silverfern Private Equity Fund I (2008 – 2012)

Silverfern made six (6) platform investments in its Fund I portfolio: