Empeiria Capital Management, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Empeiria” or the
“Firm”), is based in Cincinnati, Ohio and has been in business since 2010. Prior to January 2023,
Empeiria was known as Orchard Holdings Group, LLC. The Firm began as the proprietary private
equity group for the family of the founder of Cintas Corporation (NASDAQ: CTAS). The Firm
is owned by Orchard Seed Investors, LLC, which is in turn owned by the Orchard Trust. Robert
Coletti is the Trustee for the Orchard Trust.
Empeiria is a highly specialized investment management firm with a limited clientele. Empeiria
primarily manages a limited number of private investment funds (the “Funds”) that invest in
private equity and private debt investment opportunities. From time to time, Empeiria also
advises a limited number of separately managed accounts for individuals, trusts and certain
entities (collectively, the “Individual Clients”) with respect to specific direct investments and co-
investment opportunities. Empeiria identifies investment opportunities, monitors performance,
and manages the acquisition, oversight and disposition of the investments of each Fund and with
respect to each Individual Client. Affiliates of Empeiria serve as the general partners or managing
members (the “GPs”) of each Fund. The management services provided for each Fund and with
respect to each Individual Client are further described in that Fund’s or Individual Client’s
offering memorandum (if any), limited partnership agreement or limited liability company
agreement or similar governing agreement (if any) and the management/advisory agreement (if
any) between Empeiria and a Fund or with respect to each Individual Client (collectively, the
“Documents”).
The primary focus of Empeiria’s investment management services has been identifying,
evaluating, structuring, executing and managing privately negotiated investments in operating
entities, with a primary focus on non-public middle market companies. In addition, Empeiria has
opportunistically pursued investments in other types of securities, including but not limited to
minority equity positions, growth equity investments, equity positions in public companies,
structured credit products, debt investments and real estate. Empeiria’s investment strategy has
been very opportunistic, but generally focused on identifying investments that are advantaged by
a longer-term time horizon and a greater degree of flexibility than traditional institutional
investment funds.
In most cases, Empeiria personnel and/or its consultants
serve on a portfolio company’s board of
directors or otherwise act to influence control or management of a portfolio company on behalf
of a Fund and/or Individual Client that holds an interest in that portfolio company. In the event
a Fund and/or Individual Client holds a controlling interest in a portfolio company, Empeiria
and/or its affiliates typically have the right to appoint portfolio company board members
(including current or former Empeiria personnel, personnel of affiliated entities of the Adviser
and persons serving at Empeiria’s request), or to influence their appointment, and to determine
or influence a determination of their compensation. Empeiria expects that such persons will also
be eligible from time to time to provide other services to and/or perform other functions for
Empeiria, and to receive varying forms of compensation from Empeiria and/or its affiliates,
including cash fees, retainers and a portion of the performance-based compensation received by
one or more GPs. From time to time, portfolio company board members approve compensation
and/or other amounts payable to Empeiria and/or its affiliates. Except to the extent such amounts
are subject to the Documents’ offset provisions, they will be in addition to any asset management
fees or performance-based compensation paid to affiliates of Empeiria or Empeiria personnel by
a Fund or with respect to an Individual Client.
Empeiria does not participate in any wrap fee programs.
Empeiria generally does not have full discretionary authority regarding the investment of client
assets. Rather, Funds (or sub-funds, classes or series of funds) generally are formed, and
Individual Clients are contacted, to invest into a single or limited number of investment
opportunities. Accordingly, it is unlikely that Empeiria would need to allocate investment
opportunities amongst multiple Funds or Individual Clients. If such a situation should arise,
however, Empeiria would allocate investment opportunities in accordance with the guidelines (if
any) set forth in the Documents. In addition, in the event multiple Funds or Individual Clients
invest in same investment, Empeiria generally does not have the authority to determine the
relative investment sizes of the Fund(s) and/or Individual Client(s), which are instead determined
by the investors of the participating Funds and/or Individual Clients through negotiations at the
time an investment is made.
As of December 31, 2023, Empeiria managed approximately $307 Million of client assets, all on
a non-discretionary basis.