Over and beyond the typical objectives that vendors seek to achieve in a transaction, Cipio Partners is flexible to structure agreements that address the needs of all parties involved. Our acquisitions reflect a number of vendor preferences ranging from common ones, such as liquidity and continued upside participation, to very specific ones such as vendors maintaining a degree of access to and control over certain portfolio businesses, e.g. companies of strategic value to the vendor.

Broadly speaking, a transaction with Cipio Partners typically results in the following benefits for both the vendor and the portfolio companies:

• High probability of closing - thanks to a small group of senior decision-makers at Cipio Partners, all possessing considerable transaction experience in the secondary direct market.
• Timeliness and confidentiality - again, given a small team of decision-makers and a very short time-line to investment approval, the exposure of a vendor and its portfolio to leaks, press coverage and other disruptions during the disposal process are reduced to a minimum.
• Opportunity for immediate liquidity upon closing.
• Post-investment, contribution of strong domain and operating expertise, at board level and in day-to-day interactions with management and co-investors.
• Availability of new capital from Cipio Partners for follow-on funding.
• Opportunity for creative win-win's in order to allow a vendor's participation in the future value creation

Cipio Partners believes that in virtually every situation where its team has offered to acquire assets, its proposal was positively received, primarily due to the team's ability to address vendor concerns as well as its professionalism, straightforwardness and dependability in day to day dealings, during the due diligence process and final negotiations.