Blue Bridge Capital Partners
Transformative and Flexible Capital Solutions
Our Approach
At Blue Bridge Capital Partners, we aim to establish long-term partnerships with all our stakeholders - our portfolio companies and their employees and our investors - to foster economic activity and promote higher value-added initiatives to achieve measurable impact.
Differentiated Strategy: Building Value Through Credit Investing
We employ a disciplined conservative approach and focus on bottoms-up fundamental analysis with an emphasis on capital preservation. As a long-term investor, our mission is to understand different constituents of businesses and gain insights into the risks and business opportunities to offer alternative capital solutions based on each company`s individual needs.
We devote our resources to drive incremental value through improving productivity, strengthening operations and assisting our portfolio companies to achieve their full potential and continue to grow. Our growth model allows companies to achieve superior performance through focusing on environmental sustainability, social responsibility, and good governance, and deliver strong results over the long-term.
We partner with strong management teams at inflection points and invest substantial time and resources. As active investors, we offer on-demand flexible support, depending on the complexity of initiatives required by portfolio companies: from strategic guidance to event driven support and on-the-ground execution.
Our team of Operating Partners with significant industry experience work with management teams to provide coaching and support in new and challenging business circumstances to realize our portfolio companies strategic and operational initiatives. They provide management teams with the necessary tool-kit to support decision making and help execute on new initiatives, including but not limited to, improving governance and reporting, business and growth strategy, cash flow and working capital management, risk management and sustainability.
Our Business
We are primarily focused on the middle market segment in which we can have a critical role in augmenting growth and achieving transformational impact in sustainable value creation.
Holistic Approach: Not One Size Fits All
Blue Bride team has an extensive knowledge and track record of structuring and executing differentiated set of investments. The strength and depth of our team allows us to be a value-added partner in different circumstances and execute on complex transactions across the capital structure.
We focus on two primary strategies with different risk and return characteristics:
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Senior Secured Lending: Re-financings, recapitalizations and strengthening of balance sheet and other complex situations
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Growth Capital Financing: Solutions for organic growth (incl. Capex and working capital financing) and for inorganic growth initiatives (incl. industry consolidations and M&A)
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Partnering with strong management teams with a shared vision and culture
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History of consistent earnings and cash flow with a potential to grow over time
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Leading position in the market and offering differentiated and diversified products/services
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Companies that have strong business models and great impact potential
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Ticket Size: minimum $15 million per investment
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Long-term focus: Highly bespoke and structured funding capabilities
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Average Investment Term: 5 years
Impact Investing
How can we benefit from Sustainable Investing and can do more for our community?
We pursue a holistic approach to impact investing and have developed a set of robust internal policies and best practices to determine the overall strategy and integrate Environmental Social Governance (ESG) factors effectively to our investment process: starting from the screening process, to active monitoring and when we exit from our investments.
ESG Criteria Are Essential In Our Diligence
Employing ESG factors in our diligence process allows for a differentiated view of the companies including i) better understanding of medium to long-term picture ii) insights on potential risks lurked iii) knowledge on how the company is equipped for tomorrow`s challenges.
Studies have shown that companies with good ESG management are more crisis-resistant and achieve a better long-term performance than those with poor ESG management. Companies that persistently follow sustainability standards and ESG guidelines dramatically improve their operational performance, competitiveness, access to capital markets, and attain a higher valuation compared to their peers.
Better We Can Measure Our Impact Better We Can Maximize It
We aim to maximize expected return of an investment while ensuring we maximize the measurable beneficial impact on our society and environment. Measuring our impact is an important way for us to continuously evaluate our progress in carrying out our mission, identify opportunities for improvement, and understand the social and environmental returns on our investments. Periodically measuring our impact on our portfolio companies is critical in our value generation process.
For each of our investment we undertake a different approach based on companies` needs. In our experience we have seen the following factors affect companies the most in emerging economies and addressing these issues creates an immediate impact on the overall performance of businesses:
Environmental
Climate Change, Waste & Pollution Management, Resource Efficiency & Sustainability
Social
Human Capital, Employee Health & Safety, Consumer Protection & Product Liability
Governance
Board Composition, Compensation Structure, Compliance, Transparency & Reporting