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Great Circle Capital is a private equity firm specializing in investments in expansion capital, buyouts, and industry consolidation. It seeks to invest through common equity, preferred equity, and mezzanine investment with equity participation. The firm seeks to invest in privately held or subsidiaries and divisions of larger companies with
revenues in or indexed to major currencies. It seeks to invest in the global transportation sector with a focus on transportation infrastructure, shipping, transportation operating companies, energy services, logistics, freight forwarding, warehousing, and transportation assets sectors. Within transportation infrastructure, the firm seeks to invest in modernization, up gradation, and expansion of existing marine based or inland ports, terminal, and depots; facilities handling transportation of dry and liquid commodities; containerized cargos; container terminals; and also considers greenfield projects. Its investment in shipping includes companies which operate vessels in tanker, container, dry bulk, and niche shipping sectors. In the transportation operating sector, the firm seeks to invest in established air, road, and rail operators and carriers. Within the energy services sector, it prefers to invest in oil rigs, supply vessels, anchor handling tugs, standby vessels, floating production, storage and offloading vessels, heavy lift vessels, tugs and barges, and onshore supply bases and terminals servicing offshore activity. The firm’s investment in the logistics, freight forwarding, and warehousing sectors includes all other critical components of and support services to the global transportation supply chain. In the transportation assets sector, it considers investment in ships, rail wagons, containers, and related equipment. The firm seeks to invest in Russia, Southeastern Europe, Turkey, and the Baltic states although it considers all emerging markets. The firm typically invests more than $25 million per transaction in companies having cash flows more than $5 million. It considers transactions of any size with maximum equity participation of upto $30 million. The firm makes control investments and seeks strong minority positions, substantial shareholder rights, and board representation in its portfolio companies. It prefers to exit its investments between three to seven years. Great Circle Capital is based in Fairfield, Connecticut
