About
ATL takes a thematic investing approach, underwriting subsectors that have attractive platform opportunities that benefit from long-term secular growth trends. We partner with experienced management teams to drive value creation and growth within each of our platform investments.
Strategy
ATL’s experience and network in its sectors have allowed ATL to:
- Source proactively with early conviction
- Conduct due-diligence thoroughly and efficiently
- Transact on market terms in a timely manner
Investment Characteristics
We apply a documented and consistent approach to screening our target sectors to identify long-term secular trends that we can invest behind.
- Large addressable market with GDP++ secular growth
- Limited strategic dislocation risk or commodity exposure
- Actionability for attractive platform opportunities
- Fragmented industry with a robust universe of add-on targets
- Consistent with ESG objectives
- Multiple proven avenues for eventual realization
Value Creation
In partnering with our management teams, we co-develop tailored value creation plans to identify and implement strategic initiatives that drive profitable growth and scale the businesses. Examples of our value creation initiatives include:
- Enhancing new business development by expanding into new customer markets and making investments in new tools, resources, and talent
- Driving operational best practices to improve the customer experience, efficiency, operating margins, and quality
- Investing in research & development for new products and services that enhance each platform's offering with its customers
- Executing and integrating strategic acquisitions that enhance capabilities, expand customer relationships, and transform businesses
$2.3bn+
Equity Commitments Managed
$1.8bn+
Capital Returned
$1.1bn+
Equity Co-Investment
8
Platforms
38
Add-ons
9
Investment Professionals
History
ATL Partners launched its first fund in 2015 as a sector-specialist, to focus on buyout opportunities in aerospace, transportation & logistics. Prior to forming ATL, senior investment professionals comprised the industrial services team of MidOcean Partners.
Principles
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We are viewed by our LPs as a trusted fiduciary of their capital.
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Creativity, hard work, and hustle are the core of our approach.
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Our most important asset is our people. Teamwork, culture, and personal development are critical to our success.
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We stress collaboration in everything we do and value the opinion of every member of the firm.
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We give back to the communities in which we work and live.
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