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Leadership strategies that create shareholder value
Akoya Capital is a merchant bank that partners with industry-leading chief executive officers, proprietary platform organizations, experienced management teams and co-investors. Together we investigate, develop and execute acquisition-based strategies that deliver significant, measurable value for management partners and shareholders.
An Akoya executive works closely with our team to build a differentiated, executable investment thesis. Together we research, identify and develop target acquisition companies seeking change and growth, and we secure the capital to execute CEO-led investment strategies for creating robust, competitive, best-of-class business entities.
Akoya operates with a full complement of domain and acquisition experience to ensure delivery for all transaction stakeholders. Akoya Capital possesses world-class acquisition capabilities alongside seasoned human capital expertise. Akoya's core team leverages career-long operating and merger and acquisition experience throughout each transaction. Collectively, the team brings deep functional expertise in strategy consulting, market research and executive-level assessment — resulting in a penetrating understanding of middle-market companies' key success factors.
Akoya utilizes its resources and differentiating strategies in the delivery of value for management partners, business owners and co-investors. At the heart are our four pillars of transaction support.
Emphasis on human capital-led strategies
The Akoya core team has more than 25 years' experience in the recruitment and assessment of world-class leaders resulting in the creation of significant shareholder value with its partners.
Our primary mission is to partner with and support best-of-class operating executives — our designated ‘management partners’ — and their teams as we work together to create shareholder value.
Strategy development, validation and pursuit
Akoya Capital works with a management partner to assess, develop and validate his/her vision and its potential market impact, regardless of the idea’s stage of development. We pressure-test the investment idea to arrive at an executable business plan. Whether it is a core concept, a complete investment thesis, a management buyout of an existing company, or a re-capitalization of an existing company, Akoya’s commitment is to execute the CEO's vision.
Acquisitions
We are proactive in the marketplace in locating, researching and performing detailed analyses of exceptional platform companies. Akoya actively pursues proprietary acquisition opportunities aligned with our management partners' investment strategies. Once the thesis is validated, our market research team develops a comprehensive list of potential acquisition targets and prioritizes them in collaboration with our experienced mergers and acquisitions professionals. Adhering to defined criteria established with the management partner, we pare down the list from as many as several hundred companies to several dozen that meet the attributes of the ideal platform.
We create the economic and financial models to support an acquisition and value-creation strategy and structure every transaction with the long-term success of the company in mind: Our primary goal is to build the optimal capital structure that will support growth and meet the challenges of the company. Akoya is a principal investor in every transaction in which we're involved, and we also secure the transaction's entire capital structure, focusing on platform companies with an enterprise value of $20 million and above. We have long-term relationships — built on a record of confidence and success — with a large number of institutional capital sources with whom we co-invest.
Our co-investment partners are highly successful professionals within private equity firms, hedge funds and family offices, as well as high-net-worth individuals who understand the power of the CEO-based vision and endorse our long-term view. Because we are not reliant on a single funding source, we are not tied to any one set of investment criteria and are in a position to evaluate each opportunity on its own merits.
Operational support
In addition to the expertise of our core team of principals participating in the transaction at every step, Akoya Capital also maintains trusted, meaningful relationships with a portfolio of senior advisors, differentiating ourselves from private equity through the span of hands-on support we provide a management partner.
Our Senior Advisory Council — a network of leading luminaries with relevant domain expertise and advanced thought leadership — lends its insight and connections to Akoya-backed management teams as formal and informal advisors and co-investors committed to building meaningful enterprise value across the operational life of the investment.