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Working With the Best Clients and Partners

•Serial deal-by deal sponsors

•Firms with realized, attributable track records

•“Spin-outs” from other funded sponsor platforms

•Team with deep hands-on operating expertise within a target company’s sector

•Single asset or platform build (multiple businesses, one close)

•Acquisitions that exceed a PE fund’s concentration limit / equity check size capacity

•Acquisitions that exceed a fund’s remaining dry powder

•Fund managers that have solicited LPs for equity co-investment and have open capacity

•GP-led continuation vehicles

•Family offices acting as their own GP sponsor, seeking like-minded 3rd party co-investment

•Liquidity solutions for retiring members of management team and/or founders

•Management buyouts requiring meaningful passive or active 3rd party capital

INDEPENDENT SPONSORS

FUNDED SPONSORS

FAMILY OFFICES & MANAGEMENT TEAMS

PROCESS: Phase I

Relationship Building: Develop sponsor relationships with goal to conduct assessments of sponsors qualified to execute and manage a private equity investment

Sponsor Underwriting: Goal to create a diligence report to share with investors interested in the strategies that the sponsor intends to deploy

Approval & Engagement: Goal is to reach an agreement whereby Caerus can leverage is proprietary syndication relationships once a deal is under LOI

PHASE I

Ideally, Caerus prefers to build a relationship with the sponsor well in advance of an actual opportunity coming to market. This allows Caerus the opportunity to get to know the sponsor and understand where value can be created.

Caerus intends to work closely with the sponsor during sourcing and diligence, so that Caerus can provide market intelligence on interest in their opportunity. In most instances, early conversations with potential investors lead to actual investors at closing. In the most ideal situations, early conversations with value-add investors can enhance the opportunity and make it even more attractive in the market. At the very least these conversations can provide insights for diligence.

PROCESS: Phase II

Preparation: Assist in the creation of collateral materials, while sponsor commences diligence process post-LOI

High Priority Action: Early discussions with pre-introduced investors that indicated initial interest in the opportunity and sponsor

Syndication: Conduct a broader outreach if necessary to round out the capital

PHASE II

Phase II is where the more traditional capital formation work begins, but without Phase I, the process is more difficult. No high priority capital providers have been identified and have left providers less time to both underwrite the sponsor and the opportunity. While it is still possible, the quality of the opportunity must be higher and Caerus and the sponsor will need to work double time to assure success.

PROCESS: Phase III

Confirm Leads: Coordinate and schedule calls and meetings as appropriate to determine cultural fit, terms, execution risks, intangibles and governance

Allocation: After assembling all of the capital provider interest, Caerus and the Sponsor will determine the optimal syndicate structure

Funding & Closing: Sponsor will provide syndicate subscription documents and the Sponsor will be responsible for coordination of funding of the closing

PHASE III

Once interested capital providers have been identified, Caerus will help coordinate final provider diligence requests, document distribution and final allocations. The sponsor will coordinate funding with providers generally a few days to a week before closing.