Sverre E. Vik

Reiten focuses on small- to mid-size firms located in the Nordic region, primarily headquartered in Norway. Their investment objectives are to develop robust firms and to create value with controlled risk. They target ambitious growth firms in diverse sectors including oil and offshore services, telecommunications, real estate, food and nutrition, retail and outsourcing. They prefer majority positions and typically invest from EUR 10-40 million. The firm seeks to invest in companies with an experienced management team, attractive industry structure, international growth potential, solid cash flows and stable financial situation. They look for buyout opportunities and monitor transformational situations such as mergers and acquisitions, undervalued public companies or troubled parent companies. They monitor business lifecycle changes, emergence of strong clusters, trend developments and other impact situations from external events. RCSI's strategy exits are generally through IPOs or industrial sales.