Title: Stephen Norris & Co. Capital Partners, L.P.
1Stephen Norris Co. Capital Partners, L.P.
- Right Team, Right Time, Right Model.
- 2006
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2Preliminary Materials
- These Confidential Materials are for
information purposes only and do not constitute
an offer to invest, or acquire securities.
Interests in Stephen Norris Co. Capital
Partners, L.P. (the Partnership) can only be
acquired through a Private Placement Memorandum
(PPM) and Subscription Agreement. Potential
investors are urged to consult their professional
advisors regarding the possible economic, tax,
legal or other consequences of acquiring
Interests. There will be no public market for the
Interests. These Materials are not to be
distributed without the prior consent of the
Partnership.
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3Vision
- Stephen Norris Co. Capital Partners,
L.P. is a private equity investment partnership
formed to (i)co-invest along side well
established and successful private equity and
leveraged buyout firms, (ii) take advantage of
the business experience and relationships of its
Investment Committee, including Steve Norris
long-standing relationships and substantial
private equity experience as co-founder of The
Carlyle Group and Steve Paperins experience as
Senior Advisor to Soros Fund Management, and
(iii) create the opportunity to realize
substantial long term capital appreciation with
less risk than typically associated with private
equity investments.
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4Market Opportunity / Strategy
- It has been reported that larger private equity
and buyout firms have on average provided an
annualized return on investment of 22.5 over the
last 3 years and 13.2 over the last 5 years and,
as compared to the SP 500, which has provided a
14.4 and 0.5 return over the same periods. - Buyouts are larger and private equity and buyout
firms are actively seeking co-investors to allow
them to take advantage of large opportunities
which they are unable to do on their own because
of deal size commitment and/or diversification
limitations. Very few firms want to invest 1B
or more of their funds in any one transaction,
irrespective of the size of their funds. - Well established private equity firms
increasingly are seeking an equally well
capitalized Co-Investment Partner of Choice that
can invest significant capital and whose
principals are known to them - a Dependable
Partner of Choice. This is in addition to any
co-investment rights offered by the sponsors to
their own investors, which are derived from the
sponsors share after allocation to institutional
investors or co-investors such as the
Partnership. - The Partnership will be able to timely commit
substantial capital (50 million and more) to
each identified and selected opportunity. -
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5Market Opportunity / Strategy
- The Partnership will invest in deals on an
opportunistic basis using the substantial private
equity experience of its Investment Committee
(which collectively has over 75 years of
experience in sourcing, analyzing, structuring,
buying and selling companies), and independent
due diligence to pick the best among available
investment opportunities. Because of the network
and access of Mr. Norris and Mr. Paperin and the
other members of the Investment Committee to most
of the private equity and buyout firms throughout
the world, the Investment Committee will be able
to cherry-pick the very best deals of top-tier
private equity and buyout firms. - In the current environment there are few
non-competing investors able to exercise
co-investment opportunities and invest 50M or
more in a timely manner. - The Partnership will not originate investments
and accordingly will not compete with
sponsoring private equity and buyout firms and
thus will be more attractive as the Co-Investment
Partner of Choice of those firms. - In addition to the Investment Committees own
due diligence the Partnership will have access
to the comprehensive due diligence already
performed by the sponsoring private equity or
buyout firm. Therefore, on every investment made
by the Partnership, two extensive analyses will
have been done, (I) reducing risk, and (ii)
enhancing the likelihood of investment success
and substantial returns.
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6Trend of Participation in Larger Deals
- On Dec. 21, 2005, Ford Motor Company announced it
had completed the sale of The Hertz Corporation
to an investor group composed of Clayton Dubilier
Rice, The Carlyle Group and Merrill Lynch
Global Private Equity in a transaction valued at
approximately 15 billion including debt. - On December 12, 2005, a consortium of Bain
Capital, The Carlyle Group and Thomas H. Lee
Partners said they reached a deal to buy fast
food franchiser Dunkin' Brands, Inc. from French
beverage company Pernod Ricard S.A. for 2.43
billion in cash. - On December 1, 2005, a trio of private-equity
firms consisting of the Blackstone Group,
Providence Equity Partners Inc. and Kohlberg
Kravis Roberts Co. announced it has formed an
alliance to examine purchasing newspaper
publisher Knight Ridder Inc., which owns the
Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer and 30
other daily newspapers. - General Motors Corp. reached a definitive
agreement to sell its Electro-Motive Division
(EMD) to an investor group led by Greenbriar
Equity Group LLC and Berkshire Partners LLC in a
deal expected to close in late 2005. - Hicks Muse, TD Capital, and CIBC Capital Partners
acquired Canadian cable company, Persona, the
countrys 6th largest, for 406 million in July
of 2004. - Texas Pacific Group and Warburg Pincus LLC
acquired Neiman Marcus Group, Inc. for 5.1
billion in May of 2005. - KKR, Five Mile Capital Partners, and Goldman
Sachs Capital Partners announced in August 2005
that they had reached a definitive agreement with
General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC),
the financial services subsidiary of General
Motors Corporation, to acquire a 60 percent
equity interest in its commercial mortgage
subsidiary, GMAC Commercial Holding Corp.
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7Uniqueness and Comparative Advantages
- The Investment Committee (led by its Chairman
Steve Norris, Co-Founder of The Carlyle Group,
and the Partnerships Chief Operating Officer,
Stewart Paperin, Senior Advisor to Soros Fund
Management), has well established relationships
and personal access to executives of major
investment and buyout firms internationally,
built over their more than 75 years of collective
experience in analyzing, structuring, negotiating
and closing mergers, acquisitions, and
investments. - In addition to the Investment Committee, the
Partnership will have two Business Development
Directors with substantial contacts to premier
private equity and leveraged buyout firms. The
Partnership will create an Advisory Board that
will help widen the network of relationships
available to the Partnership better helping the
Partnership leverage the international networks
and personal relationships of its members. - Mr. Norris is well known, highly regarded and
has an extensive track record of success in
private equity and buyout investments having
achieved at the Carlyle Group an IRR in excess of
40 on investments he originated, negotiated or
materially participated. The Carlyle Groups
first fund was a 105 million fund that arranged
investments of approximately four times its
capital by working extensively with co-investors
and strategic partners. - Co-investors are only attractive to sponsors when
they can act in a timely fashion and commit
significant capital. There are few investors that
are able to co-invest significant amounts of
capital (50 and more) in a timely manner.
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8Uniqueness and Comparative Advantages
- By pooling the participations of investors, the
Partnership can commit large sums of capital,
with no single investor having to commit the
entire amount, thereby permitting the Partnership
to co-invest in the Big deals. - By not originating investments, the Partnership
will not compete with any sponsoring buyout or
investment firm in potential investments. - As opposed to a fund of funds, the Partnership
intends to choose from among numerous specific
investment opportunities presented by leading
buyout firms and will not invest blindly in any
fund or investment. It will invest directly in
deals, avoiding the doubling of fees and carry. - The Partnership will have the benefit of an
established network of relationships attractive
to portfolio companies, including significant
contacts in the Middle East, China and Europe,
and from its unique understanding of and access
to government that will give it a competitive
advantage as a co-investor.
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9Due Diligence Process
- The investment process will be managed by an
Investment Committee chaired by Mr. Norris. - As Chief Operating Officer, Stewart Paperin,
Senior Advisor to Soros Fund Management, who will
after the First Closing work substantially
full-time for the Partnership, will have personal
responsibility for managing the due diligence
process and the financial analysis of investments
performed by the Partnerships senior analysts. - In addition to Mr. Paperin, the Partnership will
employ two full-time seasoned Senior Analysts who
will report to Mr. Paperin and have at least 20
years of combined experience. One of the Senior
Analysts will be a CPA with strategic planning
experience and the other will have an advanced
business degree and substantial senior-level
private equity fund experience which will include
analyzing, structuring and negotiating deals that
will be well known to Mr. Paperin or Mr. Norris. - The due diligence reviews themselves will be
out-sourced to veteran industry experts known
to and selected by Mr. Norris, Mr. Paperin and
the other members of the Investment Committee,
who will build their independent analysis on the
substantial due diligence efforts of the deal
sponsors and their advisors. This analysis will
be overseen and reviewed by Mr. Paperin. - The process will allow the Partnership to
efficiently cherry-pick the best deals
available from premier equity and buyout funds,
reducing risk and greatly enhancing the
likelihood of substantial returns to the
Partnership.
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10Due Diligence Process
- The Investment Committees review will focus on
- Competitors and barriers to entry and assessment
of industry. - Business strategy product development,
marketing, sales and distribution, intellectual
property, etc. - Managements background and experience within
their industry sector, ability to attract and
retain top talent, ability to manage growth and
execute to plan including an assessment of the
opinions of customers and suppliers regarding the
business. - Financial history and scrutiny of Sponsors
projections of revenues, margins, cash flow, etc. - Review and confirm the reasonableness of
Sponsors exit strategies. - Evaluating and comparing each co-investment
opportunity to achieve the maximum value for the
Partnership.
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11Organizational Structure
Investment Committee
Stewart J. Paperin Chief Operating Officer
Stephen L. Norris Chairman
Joachim Gfoeller, Jr.
Pamela J. Newman
Gen. Wesley K. Clark
Due Diligence, Finance and Operations
Business Development and Investment Sourcing
Senior Analyst
Senior Analyst
Business Dev. Director
Business Dev. Director
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12Value Proposition
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13Summary of Terms
- The Target Capitalization of the Partnership is
1 Billion, with the General Partner having the
right, in its sole discretion to increase the
amount and with a First Closing taking place upon
attaining Capital Commitments for 250 million,
in addition to the Capital Commitment of the
Partnerships Special Limited Partner. - The Minimum Capital Commitment is 25 million,
subject to the right of the General Partner to
accept lesser amounts in its sole discretion. - The Capital Commitment of the General Partner and
its Affiliates will be 5 million at the First
Closing. - The Draw Down period will be five (5) years.
- As a Co-Investor, the Partnerships exit from
investments will be on a side-by-side basis with
the lead investor or sponsor on a negotiated
basis.
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14Summary of Terms continued
- The Limited Partners will have a cumulative
non-compounded priority return (the Priority
Return) of 10 per annum on Contributed Capital
(including draw downs for Organizational and
other expenses, including Management Fees, with
standard General Partners catch-up provisions,
and Monitoring Fees). - The General Partner will have a carried
interest of 20 of Cumulative Net Profits,
subject to a limited Clawback provision to
ensure that the Partners receive a return of
Contributed Capital and the Priority Return. Any
General Partner carried interest allocated to
Sponsors not subject to clawback. - The Limited Partners will pay an annual
Management Fee, pro rata, quarterly in advance,
to the General Partner of 1.5 of aggregate
Capital Commitments until the Partnership is
fully invested. Thereafter the Limited Partners
will pay an annual Monitoring Fee of .75 of
Capital Commitments. - Payment of Management Fees or Monitoring Fees
does not reduce the amount of a Partners
remaining Capital Commitment.
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15 Investment Committee
The General Partner has assembled an
Investment Committee that collectively has over
75 years of experience in sourcing, analyzing,
structuring, managing and exiting investments.
The Investment Committee consists of Stephen L.
Norris, Chairman Stewart J. Paperin, Chief
Operating Officer Gen. Wesley K. Clark Pamela
J. Newman and Joachim Gfoeller, Jr. The
Investment Committee will be actively involved in
the operation and management of the Partnership,
aggressively targeting and analyzing potential
co-investment opportunities. Until the
Partnership are fully invested, it will hold at
least one face-to-face meeting per month, which
will be augmented by weekly telephonic meetings.
The Investment Committee will utilize a consensus
process, acting by majority vote. Each member
of the Investment Committee will, in addition to
receiving base cash compensation from the General
Partner, share in the General Partners carried
interest in the Partnership, further assuring
that the Partnership will receive the full
attention and commitment of the Investment
Committees members. Accounting and
administrative services will be provided by Mr.
Gfoellers company, GMG Capital Partners, under
arrangements, that include provision of initial
funding, between GMG Capital Partners and the
General Partner
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16 Investment Committee
Stephen L. Norris Chairman Steve Norris
was one of the co-founders of The Carlyle Group
in Washington, D.C. serving as President of its
management company from inception in 1987 to
1996. He will be Chairman of Stephen Norris
Co. Capital Partners Investment Committee and
will principally focus on sourcing of investment
opportunities and investment strategy, as well as
structuring and negotiating investments and exits
from investments. Mr. Norris was involved in the
decision-making process in essentially every
major Carlyle investment decision from its
beginning as a 105 million fund that made
investments of more than four times that amount
through extensive use of co-investors and
strategic partners. Those investments yielded an
annual return on investment in excess of 40. He
also served on the boards of directors of major
Carlyle portfolio companies. He was actively
involved in recruiting all of Carlyles current
senior partners and played a major role in
recruiting President George W. Bush to serve as a
director of one of its portfolio companies and in
enlisting former Secretary of State James Baker
III and former Secretary of Defense Frank C.
Carlucci to be senior partners of Carlyle. Mr.
Norris acted as a principal financial advisor to
Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud of Kingdom
Holding Company, in structuring and negotiating
the re-capitalization of Citibank, which returned
over 15 billion in profits on about 590 million
of equity invested. He also advised or played a
key role in other Kingdom Holding Company
investments. He was appointed by former president
George H.W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate
to serve as one of five governing members of the
100 billion Federal Retirement System Thrift
Investment Board. (continued next slide.)
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17 Investment Committee
- Stephen L. Norris Chairman (continued)
- Since 1997, Mr. Norris, and certain members of
his team, have worked on a number of investments
including real estate investments in Europe and
the United States. They were involved in amongst
others the privatization of Thompson CSF, the
recapitalization of Suez, the acquisition of
portions of Credit Fonciers real estate
portfolio in Paris by the German firm of IVG, the
formation of Nomuras (London) bid for a Dutch
mortgage bank, the offer by a major Saudia
Arabian investment firm for Lamborgini in Italy,
and the formation of a bid by Leucadia
Internationals for the Labouchere Bank in
Holland. He also negotiated and structured
investments in Synxis Corporation, which was
backed by George Soros and Mr. Norris, and MARC
Global Holdings. Mr. Norris served as a law clerk
on the U.S. Tax Court and earned a B.S. and J.D
from the University of Alabama, was a fellow at
Yale Law School and earned a L.L.M. in Taxation
from New York University.
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18 Investment Committee
- Stewart J. Paperin Chief Operating Officer
- Stewart J. Paperin, who has agreed to work
substantially full time for the Partnership as
its Chief Operating Officer after the Initial
Closing, has been the Senior Advisor of Soros
Fund Management since 1997 and has been and will
continue to be a senior executive at its related
worldwide philanthropic organization. Mr. Paperin
and Mr. Norris have worked together for over 5
years and have served together on the board of a
portfolio company. Mr. Paperin has created 600
million of incremental value for the fund by
managing its turnaround and liquidation of a
portfolio of distressed investments in securities
and private equity in Russia, as well as managing
for the fund U.S. and Western European private
equity investments in numerous industries. He
also has managed and served on associated public
and private boards of directors. As Vice
President of the related worldwide philanthropic
organization, he has directed financial,
administrative and economic operations in 40
European, Latin American, Central Asian and
African countries, created and managed a
development investment fund for small business
and microfinance investments in 11 countries and
founded three successful commercial banks
dedicated to small business finance. Prior to
his current positions, Mr. Paperin was President
of Lion Rock Partners/Capital Resource East,
Ltd., providing investment and consulting
services in the United States and Central America
to clients such as Weirton Steel, David Joseph
Company and Topps Corp served as Senior Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer of Western
Union Corporation and President and Managing
Director of Brooke International, successfully
restructuring Western Union Corporation and
leading Brooke Groups development of timber
processing, chemicals trading and energy trading
businesses in Russia. Mr. Paperin holds a B.A.
in Economics and Management and an M.S. in
Management from the State University of New York,
Binghamton.
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19 Investment Committee
- General Wesley K. Clark, U.S. Army (Retired)
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- Wesley K. Clark is one of the nation's most
distinguished retired military officers. During
thirty-four years of service in the United States
Army he rose to the rank of four-star general and
in his last position was NATO's Supreme Allied
Commander and the Commander-in-Chief of the US
European Command. In 2004 he won the Oklahoma
Democratic presidential primary and placed second
in three other state primaries. Since returning
to the private sector, he has resumed activities
at Wesley K. Clark Associates, the private
consulting firm he founded in 2003, working with
a numerous clients in the areas of command and
control communications, leadership, and
technology development. He is also Vice Chairman
of James Lee Witt Associates, a leading
consulting firm in the field of homeland
security, business continuity and disaster
mitigation, a general partner in Four Seasons
Ventures, an investment fund dedicated to
commercializing military technology and an
advisor to Goldman Sachs. Prior to his run for
the presidency, General Clark was Managing
Director of Merchant Banking for Stephens Group,
Inc, a large private investment bank, where he
brought in numerous companies in the security and
high-technology field for possible investment
opportunities. He has been and is a member of
numerous corporate and non-profit boards of
directors. General Clark graduated first in his
class from the United States Military Academy
(B.S.) and completed degrees in Philosophy,
Politics and Economics at Oxford University (B.A.
and M.A.) as a Rhodes Scholar. -
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20 Investment Committee
- Pamela J. Newman
- Pamela J. Newman is Executive Vice President of
AON Corporation and in that capacity is an
international insurance broker specializing in
Fortune 500 clients worldwide. Ms. Newman and
Mr. Norris have worked together on a number of
transactions for over 5 years, including
transactions with Berkshire Hathaway and other
major funds. Ms. Newman has extensive experience
in working with major private equity groups,
including The Blackstone Group, Veronis Suhler
Stevenson, Heartland Industrial Partners, Easton
Capital, Hermes, The Carlyle Group, Highfields
Capital Management, Columbia Partners, Atlantic
Capital Partners LLC, and Westwood Capital, LLC.
She serves on the Board of RKO Pictures, as well
as on its Executive Committee. She also serves
on the Board of Interactive Metronome, Ivivi
Technologies, Inc. and Chipwich Chippoppitty.
She is a Trustee of The American University of
Paris is on the Corporate Board of Carnegie
Hall is a Fellow of the Foreign Policy
Association and a member of the Associate
Committee of The Julliard School a Vice Chairman
of the Business Committee of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art a member of the Medical Center
Advisory Board of the New York Hospital-Cornell
Medical Center a past President of the Financial
Womens Association and is on the Board of the
McGowan Transplant Center, the Brain Trauma
Foundation and American ORT. Dr. Newman earned a
B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of
Michigan. She has co-authored two books
Organizational Communications and Behind Closed
Doors A Guide to Effective Meetings. -
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21 Investment Committee
- Joachim Gfoeller, Jr.
- Mr. Gfoeller co-founded GMG Capital Partners in
1997 and has served as its Managing General
Partner since then. Since 2004, Mr. Norris has
been actively involved on the Board of Directors
of a number of GMG portfolio companies. Prior to
joining the General Partner, Mr. Gfoeller was one
of the founding partners of Stolberg Partners, a
New York based 70 million buyout fund
established in 1993. At Stolberg Partners, Mr.
Gfoeller had extensive experience investing in
the private equity market, particularly in the
manufacturing and distribution industries. Prior
to establishing Stolberg Partners, Mr. Gfoeller
served as a vice president of the money
management firm Weiss, Peck Greer (1988-1993)
and as a partner of its buyout group (1992-1993).
While at Stolberg Partners and Weiss, Peck
Greer, Mr. Gfoeller was responsible for
generating private equity deal flow through his
extensive network in the Midwest, the South and
the East Coast and was involved in all phases of
the private equity investment process from
finding investment opportunities, conducting due
diligence, making investments to creating exit
strategies. Mr. Gfoeller is a Director or Board
advisor to Forum Systems, Lancope and OpenPeak.
He also sat on the Board of Directors of Phobos
and StorageApps prior to their acquisitions by,
respectively, SonicWALL for approximately 270
million and Hewlett-Packard for approximately
350 million. Mr. Gfoeller holds a B.A., magna
cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in International
Studies from The Ohio State University (1981), a
M.A., with honors, Economics/Latin American
Studies from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies (1983) and an M.B.A.,
Finance from the Wharton School at The University
of Pennsylvania (1988).
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22Senior Analysts
- The Partnership will hire two full-time Senior
Analysts who will be responsible for due
diligence, including direct daily supervision of
the outside teams of experts hired to conduct due
diligence. They will report directly to Mr.
Paperin. - The Senior Analysts will have over 20 years of
combined senior-level experience in mergers and
acquisitions. Each will be well known to Mr.
Norris or Mr. Paperin. - It is anticipated that one Senior Analyst will be
a certified public accountant with at least ten
years of experience, including at least five
years of chief financial officer or other
strategic planning or similar senior management
experience that involved significant experience
with mergers and acquisitions and initial public
offerings. - It is anticipated that the other Senior Analyst
will have an advanced business degree, such as an
MBA, and at least 7 years of experience in the
private equity investment markets. - The Senior Analysts will have a dotted line
reporting relationship to the Investment
Committee, in addition to reporting directly to
the Chief Operating Officer.
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23Select Stephen Norris Co. Capital Partners,
L.P. Relationships
Kissinger McLarty Associates
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud
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24Contact Information
- Stephen L. Norris
- 399 Park Avenue
- 36th Floor
- New York, New York
- P 212-832-4013
- F 212-980-1695
- M 202-468-6793
Jeffrey Gilfix 399 Park Avenue 36th Floor New
York, New York P 212-832-4013 F 602-912-3881 M
917-337-1319
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