We’re not just different for its own sake.
We’re offering you distinctive advantages.
Operating Partnership
Keystone’s “roll-up-the-sleeves” style means the firm is capable of, and willing to provide, day-to-day support to management teams in the following areas of potential need: setting and refining strategic direction, design of new compensation and incentive plans, development of new business lines, acquisitions, banking relationships, cash management, financial reporting, risk management, crisis management, human resources, legal and facility expansion. Keystone’s professionals bring a wealth of experience in operating and building businesses.
Timely and Professional Execution
Because our reputation is paramount, Keystone only commits to do what we know we can deliver. Our professionals have a long and proven history over 30+ years of closing over $1 billion of merger and acquisition transactions as principals, as well as a national reputation and network in the financial markets. Keystone’s nimble size and lack of internal approval committees allow us to be a quick and dependable buyer, often closing transactions in 45 days or less.
Management Transition Assistance
Unlike most private equity firms, Keystone is willing to acquire a business where there is a void in the management team because a founding entrepreneur wants to retire, a division manager prefers to stay with the selling parent company, or no chief financial officer exists at the business. Keystone’s professionals are capable of filing such leadership needs on a transitional basis until a new manager can be recruited, thus facilitating the sale of the business without penalty for the lack of a full management team.
Financial Partnership
We want excellent management performance to be properly rewarded. So Keystone always creates a management stock ownership opportunity in order to assure that our managers’ goals are identically aligned with our own. This corresponds to our 7-10+ year investment time horizon, which facilitates sound, longer-term decision-making. Keystone also believes in a conservative financial approach to our transactions by providing our companies a solid equity base and by avoiding excessive and risky financial leverage.
“WHAT SEPARATES KEYSTONE FROM FUND BASED EQUITY FIRMS IS THEIR CONSISTENT LOGICAL APPROACH AND A GENUINE REAL VALUE DRIVEN PERSPECTIVE. KEYSTONE’S INDEPENDENT FINANCIAL STRENGTH AND HAVING NO FUND-BASED INVOLVEMENT IS A REFRESHING SHIFT COMPARED TO THE ALL TO OFTEN TURN AND BURN MENTALITY OF FUND-BASED INVESTORS WITH LIMITED EXIT HORIZONS. KEYSTONE IS A TRULY UNIQUE FIRM WITH AN INVESTMENT PHILOSOPHY TIED TO TRUE LONG-TERM PARTNERSHIPS.”
- STUART D. EDEN, CEO/PRESIDENT
