Litorina is a growth oriented investor in the lower end of the mid-market that acquires and develops Nordic, primarily Swedish, companies.
Investment opportunities may arise when family businesses are faced with generational shifts, in management buyout situations, and when entrepreneurs need help to take their companies to the next level of their development. In a majority of Litorina’s transactions the incumbent owners have chosen to reinvest a part of their proceeds in parallel with Litorina. As minority shareholders they can continue to develop their companies in partnership with Litorina and participate in the future value creation.
Litorina will typically hold a majority share in the companies we invest in, with the management and Board of Directors holding significant minority interests. It is our ambition to work in partnership with the management and Board, in order to responsibly provide the best possible conditions for future profitable growth, with long-term industrial value creation as the overall vision.
Litorina invests in profitable, Nordic companies that typically have an enterprise value in the range of SEK 100- 500 million and show potential for development. These companies should ideally hold a strong market position in their niche and have an identifiable organic and/or acquisition-based growth potential.
A competent management team with the capacity to realise a growth-oriented business plan is key to our success with an investment. The management team is often already in place at the time of our investment, but occasionally a new management team is recruited to run the company under Litorina’s ownership. Such recruitments are clearly communicated before we make the investment and often made in close dialogue with the seller of a company.