Our primary objective is to build great companies that are positioned for long-term success. It is our belief that great companies grow market share, have loyal customers, attract, train and retain the best talent, and deliver outstanding operational results. Importantly, we believe that great companies deliver exceptional investment returns over the long-term.

Barnes Capital has employed a consistent formula for building market leading companies and generating outstanding investment returns.

We tailor the structure of each transaction to achieve the goals of the selling shareholders, carefully taking into account divergent objectives among this group.

We partner with management teams that have a history of success. The common thread among our transactions is a highly functional, performance-oriented management team.

We work shoulder to shoulder with our teams in the value creation process, from the development of a long-term strategic plan, to the execution of critical strategic initiatives, to the decision to exit the investment.

We have more than 50 collective years of experience transforming good businesses into great companies.

We believe in the power of equity incentives to clearly align economic interests. Accordingly, Barnes Capital and our management partners are both significant investors in our companies. To further align interests, performance-based equity incentives are typically part of our management compensation packages.

We capitalize each of our investments with a combination of equity and long-term debt, balancing the ongoing investment requirements to achieve the strategic plan with the company’s cost of capital. Our capital structures are carefully designed to accommodate unexpected opportunities and to withstand the inevitable “bumps in the road.”