Evaluating and Executing Transactions
Company owners, intermediaries, and advisors who have worked with FFL will tell you that we strive to cultivate business relationships that are built upon a foundation of fairness, partnership, and trust. When evaluating or negotiating a transaction, we do our best to communicate openly, directly, and we expect the same from others we deal with.

Before we enter into a partnership with a company, we must fully understand the intricacies of the business, so we use leading consultants, bankers, lawyers, and accountants. We place a high value on the right advice, insight, or introduction and make every effort to partner with the very best advisors.

We are keenly aware that investment discussions are sensitive and have built our reputation around discretion.

Bringing Opportunities To Our Attention
Investment opportunities come to us through many different channels. We will respond quickly and confidentially to ideas from company owners, managers, or intermediaries.

Realizing that talented management is vital to the success of any investment, we seek strategic partnerships with CEOs and managers with proven records of accomplishment to create investment opportunities. We invite proven CEOs and managers to approach us with investment ideas.

We recognize that attractive companies are often represented by intermediaries. We have excellent relationships with many leading financial institutions, and we strive to communicate quickly and clearly our goals and our interest in a particular transaction. Our intermediary relationships have been a valuable source of investment opportunities in the past and we encourage intermediaries whom we do not know to contact us.

Last, we know that great investments often involve change and vision. Therefore, investment proposals need not always be straightforward and well packaged. We will brainstorm to help refine an idea with a prospective portfolio company until it is fully developed, and as our partnership matures, we can offer, if necessary, a wide variety of financial resources and operating support to help build value.