The present builds the future.
The foundations of the present are the building blocks of the future. Established businesses that the market relies on today are where tomorrow's growth starts.
Permanent capital · Long-term stewardship
Permanent capital for enduring businesses.
We invest in mature businesses that serve critical market functions and are positioned for significant related, but orthogonal, growth. Then we hold them indefinitely.
01 — Philosophy
What we believe about investing
Differentiation is earned.
Differentiated risk-adjusted returns can only come from differentiated strategy, process, and effort. We don't expect different results from doing what everyone else does.
Find the gems. Keep them.
We look for the hidden gems of the investable universe and look after them for the very long term, holding our investments for indefinite periods.
02 — Purpose
Why we do this
The economy is stronger when good businesses are smartly stewarded.
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Stewardship strengthens the economy
Good businesses employ people, serve customers, and anchor their communities. When they are owned with care and skill, the benefits reach well beyond their own balance sheets.
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Owners deserve a better exit
Traditional private equity offers an inadequate exit model for many of today's small but valuable private businesses. Too often, owners must choose between a buyer planning its own exit and no sale at all. We offer another path.
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People, not just properties
Investing in people, in addition to properties, is the key to unlocking sustainable growth. It creates value for a wide circle of stakeholders: employees, customers, suppliers, and communities, as well as investors.
What drives us
Every good product and every strong business exists because of a series of miracles.
The right idea, the right people, and years of effort have to come together, and they rarely do. We feel an impulse to protect the miraculous. Stewarding these products and businesses into the future is how we act on it.
03 — Approach
How we invest
What we look for
- Maturity. Established businesses with a proven record.
- Necessity. Companies that serve critical functions in their markets.
- Orthogonal growth. Room for significant growth adjacent to, but distinct from, the core business.
- Quality worth keeping. A business whose character is worth preserving as it grows.
Investing in assets, not through them
Our capital comes from family offices with permanent capital. That lets us invest in a business rather than through it. There is no fund life to work around, no exit to engineer, and no pressure to sell a good business before its time.
We judge an investment by what it becomes over decades, not by what it fetches at a predetermined sale.
04 — Our edge
A different kind of owner
Private equity
Strategic acquirer
Orchard Hill
Holding period
Set by fund life
Indefinite
Indefinite
Value creation
Often through financial “value engineering”
Through synergies and integration
Through long-term stewardship and growth
The business after the deal
Positioned for resale
Absorbed into a larger company
Keeps its form, identity, and quality
05 — Experience
Critical industries, in motion
Our team brings investment and transaction experience across nine sectors, including the industries that keep the world powered, connected, and secure.
- Healthcare
- Consumer Products
- Financial Services
- Biotechnology
- Energy
- Aerospace & Defense
- Industrials
- Technology
- Media
06 — Team
The partners
Joshua Pirutinsky
Partner
Joshua worked in private equity at Goldman Sachs. Before that, he practiced in the mergers & acquisitions group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
He received his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was a Fellow at the Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement and a Lederman Fellow in Law & Economics. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Rutgers University.
Shmuel Gold
Partner
Shmuel spent nearly a decade as a consultant at IBM.
He studied engineering and business at the University of Maryland.
The partners are supported by a team of associates.
07 — Contact
Start a conversation
We welcome conversations with business owners, advisors, and intermediaries.
Joshua Pirutinsky
josh@orchardhillgroup.comShmuel Gold
shmuel@orchardhillgroup.com