Lionel Gatling
Upper Marlboro, MD (USA)
Role(s):
Founder/Owner/Principal
Ramblewood Opportunity Fund
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Location:
Upper Marlboro
Industry:
Investing
Year Founded:
2010
Number Employees:
1-10 people
Business Stage:
Creation/Idea
Entity Type:
Not Incorporated
Description:
Ramblewood Opportunity Fundis a start-up opportunity fund that focuses on middle market companies within the Maryland, Washington D.C, and Virginia area that have enterprise values between $2 to $10 million. Our investment philosophy focuses on providing value-added opportunities such as the cutting of redundancies and bad projects, acquisitions of competitors, and increasing investments in profitable business ventures. What separates us from other funds is that we have an entrepreneurial approach as far as improving the business besides a financial engineering approach. We believe in making the company strong for the next 20 years, besides the next 5 years. Our investment philosophy in distressed debt is buy underlying debt on church facilities that carry stable yields. We focus on this sector of the debt market because of its low cost to entry, the low risk of churches defaulting on their loans, and it is a new sector in the debt market that has not been notably exploited by a large number of other funds.