Melwood Capital ("Melwood"), led by managing partner Rabih Khoury, is a Merchant Bank that specializes in middle market private investments. It partners with both investors and portfolio companies to create lasting value by matching the appropriate business with both the suitable type of capital and the appropriate managerial support. To its investors, it offers a disciplined and integrated asset management approach that provides investment opportunities in a wide range of asset classes and risk profiles. To its portfolio companies, it offers stewardship, contacts and experience in multiple disciplines and across several industries. To entrepreneurs and aspiring management teams, it offers advice, capital and a seasoned team of senior managers to assist in fulfilling their goals. Melwood believes its success to date has resulted from its strict adherence to the following guiding principles: (1) focus on a select few opportunities, (2) invest only in industries in which we have had significant success and (3) invest our capital at low valuations irrespective of economic cycles. Melwood believes that the Middle Market offers some of the best opportunities for creating value. Through its long-term partnership with its investors and portfolio companies, Melwood seeks to exploit the Middle Market’s inefficiencies to uncover dislocations in valuation and unique investment structures that maximize returns to its investors. Why the Middle Market? Because the outlook for investing in the Middle Market has never been stronger. The Middle Market is large enough and broad enough to provide an unlimited choice of investment opportunities. The Middle Market represents close to 25% of the US GDP with $2.75 trillion in total revenues. In addition, there are close to 50,000 Middle Market companies in the US with revenues ranging between $25 million and $1 billion. Furthermore, unlike larger public companies, Middle Market private companies provide enough flexibility to allow Melwood to structure creative, value maximizing transactions with optimal capital structures.
