GrowthGate Capital Corporation (“GrowthGate”), is a specialist buyout firm incorporated in the Kingdom of Bahrain targeting promising corporations located primarily in the GCC markets and selectively in other parts of the MENA region. GrowthGate is managed by Keystone Equity Partners (“Keystone”), a dedicated professional firm comprised of seasoned corporate financiers and deal makers with extensive experience in the target markets of GrowthGate.
Shareholders in GrowthGate include a select group of corporate leaders and public pension plans, regional financial institutions, prominent family groups and leading individuals from the Middle East region.
The firm’s competitive advantage is based on the depth, breadth, and experience of our investment team, led by Keystone, who comes from a variety of backgrounds, ranging from operational key roles in multinationals, private equity groups, and investment banks to strategic consulting firms.
GrowthGate’s investment team sources acquisitions, works with senior managers of portfolio companies to design ways of growing and improving their business, determines the optimal capital structure to support a company’s business strategy, provides access to a global network of resources that strengthen operational execution, and realizes value for our shareholders when exiting a company.
GrowthGate’s relationship with its portfolio companies is generally long term. The General Manager’s investment professionals along with industry savvy shareholders, act also as proactive board members of the portfolio companies who understand that managers need operational autonomy. We want the managers of our portfolio companies to own the results of their decisions.
The portfolio companies selected by Keystone on behalf of GrowthGate assume prudent levels of debt that enable them to invest for growth and weather economic downturns. The General Manager’s investment professionals work closely with the portfolio companies’ senior executives to develop operating budgets that support research and development, capital spending, and acquisitions.
To cover the scope of investment of GrowthGate, the General Manager operates from offices in Dubai, Beirut, and, in the near future, Riyadh. As such, the General Manager acts on behalf of GrowthGate as a single firm with a single culture. GrowthGate and Keystone share common attitudes, values, and practices and have created an environment that promotes teamwork.
Our investment professionals adhere to the highest ethical standards, and our growing regional presence is built upon a philosophy that embraces the cultures of the diverse geographies in which we do operate.