Invest with vision.
Partner with ambition.

Meridian Equity Group backs businesses at the point where conviction matters most — early enough to shape what a company becomes, and long enough to see it through. We look for opportunities at the intersection of innovation, growth and durable value creation, across sectors where we understand what separates a good business from a defining one. Our capital is private, our horizon is long, and our involvement continues well past the point of investment.

Conviction

• Take positions we can defend
• Hold them when conviction is tested
• Move decisively, or not at all

Innovation

• Better never stops

Partnership

• Founders keep building
• We bring capital, judgement and network
• Have impact, be accountable

Fairness & respect

• Your duty; your right
• Meritocracy
• Congenial conflict

One firm, one team

• One team across every sector
• Knowledge transfers between them

The whole firm, not an assigned partner

Private equity has come a long way since the early days of leveraged buyouts. Today, the private equity universe spans numerous strategies with varying levels of risk and highly dispersed returns across a vast and ever-evolving universe of opportunities.

The complexity and scope of this opportunity set—and the importance of finding and investing with the limited universe of managers who can deliver outperformance—requires extensive resources and specialized expertise.

That’s why our senior private investments team, with an average of nearly 20 years of industry experience, is located around the globe to help us find and access the funds that we believe can drive portfolio outperformance.

Yesterday's pioneers, today's leading-edge investors

As one of the earliest proponents of private markets investing, we have been partnering with sophisticated institutional and family investors to shape the global private markets investment landscape for five decades. We are a leader in private markets investing, often being the first stop for new and emerging managers who are spinning out from larger firms.

And while private investments have consistently proven to drive portfolio performance for investors with meaningful allocations, there is a wide dispersion in returns between the best and the rest.

That’s why we have continually invested in the resources, experience, and infrastructure to source, evaluate, and access high conviction private investments around the globe.

HOW WE INVEST

Every business we look at gets the same four questions, asked in the same order. The discipline is not in having a view — it is in refusing to skip a step because an opportunity feels obvious. Conviction is what the process produces, not what we bring to it.

   

   

Our Approach

Private capital, strategic insight, disciplined evaluation and long-term partnership — applied together, to the same question.

Sector Knowledge

Experience earned inside these markets, not observed from outside them.

Operational Value Creation

Capital is the starting point. The work that follows — hiring, market entry, pricing, positioning for the next round — is where returns are actually made. We are involved in it, at the level of detail the company needs and no more.

Long-Term Partnership

We stay through the stages where support is worth the most.

PRIVATE EQUITY

We tailor comprehensive private equity investment solutions for all types of investors by partnering with top private equity fund managers.

Our growth since inception is fueled by a diverse investor base increasingly seeking to gain or increase access into the private equity asset class. We believe it is important to offer clients a flexible approach that provides access to quality fund managers through a variety of investment solutions.

At Meridian Equity Group, we value a collaborative environment. We keep an open and curious mind when evaluating investment opportunities, yet remain highly disciplined in our selection.

STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE.

We gain advantage in the market due to our team’s experience which offers us resources that give us an edge over our peers. Our advantage is complemented by a comprehensive, diversified investment approach.

PROGRAMS & SOLUTIONS.

Meridian Equity Group has developed a number of investment solutions to assist investors with their goals of accessing the private equity asset class. These programs can accommodate investors of various sizes and provide access to different sectors (i.e. buyout, venture capital, growth, distressed/turnaround, and credit), vintage years, geographies, industries and stages. We work very closely with investors in finding the right solution for their portfolios and in developing programs utilizing a variety of approaches.

We value a collaborative environment while keeping an open and curious mind when evaluating investment opportunities, yet remain highly disciplined in our selection.