Finding Hidden Global Champions
Paladin is a global private equity firm based in the US (Los Angeles & New York) and Germany (Hamburg) with a focus on investing in and building global market leaders within their industrial technology niches.
Paladin’s investment strategy targets unique companies that dominate highly attractive niche markets encompassing highly-engineered, manufactured products and technology-enabled business services. These companies are distinguished by deep and sustainable competitive advantages with as yet unfulfilled global growth potential, lean management and performance improvement potential.
As a core part of its investment strategy, Paladin is deeply committed to achieving positive ESG outcomes within its portfolio companies as a means to create long-term financial value from cost reductions, productivity improvements and new carbon offset revenue streams.
Paladin’s investment team and senior advisor network have extensive experience advising management teams on global sales & marketing growth strategies (including new product development and geographic expansion), executing and integrating global M&A, optimizing complex global manufacturing, procurement, and supply chains and pioneering the use of lean management and cutting-edge digital technology to automate and modernize operations for maximum efficiency, quality, innovation and safe operations.