Finding Undervalued Businesses
- Persephone’s partners have backgrounds in restructuring and investing, where they have proven capability at identifying, preserving and creating value in businesses undergoing transition or with values masked by discontinuities
- Transition can mask value due to:
- Financial stress
- Strategic shifts among competitors, customers and suppliers
- Disruptive new technology
- Strategic misdirection
- Government regulation
- Persephone’s partners have found that companies in transition not only have masked value, but may also have hidden potential for value-added strategic transformation
- As a result, Persephone is seeking control positions in businesses that are not simply undervalued, but that also have the potential for radical additional value creation through a transformation that might include: business model re-alignment, strategic alliances, turnarounds, roll-ups, new ventures, or recapitalization
