Jacob Stuart & Knight Inc. acquisitions/takeovers can take numerous forms. We have taken publicly listed companies private, acquired divisional capital through corporate divestiture transactions, partnered with family-owned firms and purchasers, structured reverse takeover and going public (IPO) transactions and purchased and grown companies through industry-consolidations.

Jacob Stuart & Knight Inc. transactions share some fundamental qualities: We can supply equity dollars for the friendly acquisition of a business with regular cash flows and quality management. The capital structure of the acquired business depends on the strategy for growth creation, which is jointly developed by internal managers/owners and Jacob Stuart & Knight Inc. We work with our companies to design and implement plans for improving operations in the areas of manufacturing, sales, and marketing. Over time, usually many years, we exit our investments through IPOs, secondary offerings, and sales to other buyers in our network. When investments are disposed of, profits are distributed to our investors, which include corporate and public pension plans, financial institutions, public and private businesses, insurance companies, merchant banks and high net worth sophisticated investors.

A benefit of Jacob Stuart & Knight Inc. ownership is that the boards and managers of our companies are not concern themselves with the short-term pressures of the capital financial markets. We take our time and are patient investors. We do not concentrate on short term results. In a typical case Jacob Stuart & Knight Inc. holds investments for several years, and in sometimes we have held them for more than a decade. However, if Jacob Stuart & Knight Inc. is hired specifically for a hostile takeover and or reverse merger by one of our clients we may be looking for a quicker exit such as an IPO.

Over the long term, effective ownership and management of a company leads to benefits for all such as shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers, and the community at large. The success of a company depends on these same factors. Jacob Stuart & Knight Inc. encourages its selected companies to invest in each stakeholder group. Employees can be trained in ways that prepare them for better, more demanding jobs. And we encourage our companies to contribute to the communities where they are located.