Strategy
Investment Policy
Alto Partners focuses upon attractive, growing business sectors where our team has acquired a particular expertise. These investments can serve as ideal platforms for developing premier niche leaders into valuable assets for strategic trade buyers or acquisitive sector consolidators over a three-to-five-year period.
Main Sectors of Interest
Italy, particularly Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto, Emilia Romagna and Tuscany
Buyout/majority to support generational transition. Expansion/minority to support development programs
Start-up, turnaround and restructuring; real estate and financial services; non-ethical sectors
Process
Alto Partners is a majority or controlling minority shareholder, focusing upon business development through intensive portfolio company monitoring. It actively drives growth initiatives and industrial acceleration in its portfolio companies by leveraging its solid industrial background, broad network of contacts, and sector expertise.
Alto Partners investment focus
Due diligence
Each investment is completed after an extensive due diligence process aimed at thoroughly understanding strategic, tax, accounting, legal, insurance and ESG aspects
Monitoring
Each investment is subject to continuous, proactive monitoring. Alto Partners actively cooperates with each portfolio company and its management to support the growth plan
Company Support
Company support is provided by Alto Partners’ leveraging on its exclusive network of industry experts, primarily via such assistance as:
Top-line Growth
Evaluation, selection and negotiation of strategic acquisitions
Selection and recruitment of qualified human resources
Implementation of corporate governance best practices
Managing interaction with banks
Brand development and positioning
Introduction to new potential customers or suppliers
Promoting relationships between portfolio companies and sector entrepreneurs
Our Achievements
A long-term partnership with companies and entrepreneurs resulting in*:*Figures include all the investments and exits part of the Team’s track record
*Figures include all the investments and exits part of the Team’s track record