For Sponsors

Cohesive is a flexible, creative, and easy to work with partner, and seeks to add value beyond just providing capital.

“User-Friendly” Sponsor Interaction

  • Highly responsive, transparent, and efficient – never waste sponsor’s time

  • Constantly communicate

  • Review materials and give feedback quickly (“Quick No’s”)

  • Able to operate under accelerated timelines

  • Thoughtfully prepare for meetings with sponsor and/or management

  • No unnecessary internal bureaucracy

COHESIVE PROCESS

Flowchart outlining steps in a business deal process, starting with assessing fit and executing NDA, reviewing materials, initial call with sponsor, continuing diligence, and signing the deal. The flow includes feedback, review, initial call, continued diligence, and signing.

The “50%" Rule”: If at any point during the process, Cohesive is less than 50% likely to do the deal, we will drop so as not to waste the sponsor’s time or hang around the hoop and risk leaving the sponsor “at the altar”

Flexible Solutions

Cohesive is set up to work with sponsors early in a process as a Junior Partner to reduce co-investment syndication risk and give sellers confidence

  • Support new or existing investments

  • Comfortable with accelerated timelines and complex situations

  • Willing to be creative to find situation-specific solutions

A timeline diagram illustrating stages of a business partnership process from pre-process to closing. The y-axis measures Co-Investor Value-Add, decreasing over time from pre-process to closing. The timeline includes stages labeled Pre-process, LOI, Exclusivity, Signing, and Closing. The diagram emphasizes the role of a Junior Partner throughout the process.

Flexibility also allows Cohesive to be helpful in a variety of other potential situations:

BRIDGE TO CLOSING OF A NEW FUND

LEGAL/REGULATORY OWNERSHIP LIMITATIONS

CAPITAL FOR ADD-ON ACQUISITIONS

GROWTH CAPITAL FOR PRODUCT OR SALES INVESTMENT

INDEPENDENT VALIDATION OF CROSS-FUND INVESTMENTS

SECONDARY PURCHASE FROM PREVIOUS OWNER / CO-INVESTOR

Value-Added Knowledge Network

Cohesive leverages its Knowledge Network to:

  • Provide additional insights during due diligence

  • Introduce potential customers or strategic partners for portfolio company

  • Facilitate introductions to bankers and debt financing sources

Cohesive’s Knowledge Network Includes:

  • 200+ value-added LPs

  • Corporate executives

  • Bankers

  • PE professionals

  • Lenders

  • Public market investors