Crosswinds Holdings Inc., formerly known as C.A. Bancorp Inc., is a private equity firm specializing in management buyouts, acquisitions, expansions, restructurings, leveraged buy-out, refinancing, distressed securities, bankruptcy exits, growth capital, turnarounds, PIPE transactions of middle-market companies, and other alternative investment opportunities. The firm focuses its investments in small and middle capitalization public and private companies. It also participates in open market purchases, equity investments in private issuers, and privatization of public companies. The firm seeks to invest in industrials, real estate, infrastructure, asset management, and financial services with a particular focus on the insurance industry including reinsurance. Within industrials, it seeks to invest in mature industrial companies with a focus on manufacturing, distribution, and service sectors. Its infrastructure investment opportunities focus on power generation, transportation, and utilities. The firm's investment in real estate includes industrial, commercial, healthcare, hospitality, and retail properties. Within financial services, it invests in Canadian and international financial services businesses, including asset managers and investment counselors. The firm also invests in electric power generation by nuclear fuels and fossil fuels. From time to time, it will seek to invest in Capital Pool Companies within the real estate, infrastructure, and other asset-rich areas. The firm seeks to invest in the undervalued North American private and public companies based in Canada and the Unites States. Its public investments will focus on mid-market companies trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange. It typically invests between $0.5 million and $20 million in companies with enterprise values between $25 million and $200 million. The firm seeks to pursue investments that offer returns between 1.5 percent and three percent. The firm has a preference for dislocations and underfollowed sectors of the market. It seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies. The firm exits its investments through sale to strategic buyers or financial investors, open market sales, normal course retirement of securities, refinancing, and public offerings. Crosswinds Holdings Inc. is based in Toronto, Canada with an additional office in New York, New York. As of March 08, 2013, it operates as a subsidiary of CDJ Global Catalyst LLC.
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