Marc Lindhorst
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- Full Name
- Marc Philipp Lindhorst
- Title
- Managing Director / Partner (member of the Responsible Investment Committee)
- Firm
- One Equity Partners
- Firm Type
- Middle-market private equity (~$10B AUM) — *not* an angel/seed investor, despite the stub label
- Investment Stage
- Buyout / control equity in the middle market (the firm's "Transformative Combination" strategy), not seed
- Check Size
- ~$30M–$150M equity per deal (firm-level), excluding co-investment
- Target Company Profile
- Businesses with enterprise values of ~$100M–$1B, revenues of ~$100M–$750M, and EBITDA of ~$10M–$150M
- Sector Focus
- Industrial, healthcare/life science, and technology; personally active in packaging, logistics and industrials
- Geographic Focus
- Europe (based in Frankfurt) and North America
- Location
- Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
Background
Marc Lindhorst is a Managing Director / Partner at One Equity Partners, which he joined in 2015 and where he works out of the firm's Frankfurt office. Since joining, he has been involved in investments across the life science, technology, packaging, logistics and industrial sectors, and he serves on the firm's Responsible Investment Committee. One Equity Partners is a middle-market private equity firm with roughly $10 billion in assets under management, focused on "transformative combinations" — merging like-sized businesses to build market leaders of scale — across North America and Europe.
Before One Equity Partners, Lindhorst was an associate on the principal investment team at Hanson Asset Management, a London-based family office. Earlier in his career he worked in investment banking at Greenhill & Co. and in Credit Suisse's European Financial Sponsors and Leveraged Finance Group, giving him a background in leveraged finance and sponsor coverage that maps onto One Equity's control-buyout approach.
He holds a B.Sc. in General Management and Business Law from EBS University (Oestrich-Winkel, Germany) and a Master's in Finance from London Business School.
As part of his deal work, Lindhorst holds board / supervisory board seats at several One Equity portfolio companies, including Alltub, DESMI, Fortaco Group and SGB-SMIT.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Invests via control private equity in the middle market, not seed or angel rounds — the stub's "Angel Investors / Seed Round" designation is not supported by any source.
- One Equity's core thesis is the "Transformative Combination": acquire a platform and merge it with like-sized, complementary businesses to rapidly create a scaled market leader and a more efficient combined income statement by removing duplicative costs.
- Targets industrials, healthcare/life science, and technology in Europe and North America; Lindhorst's personal deal focus skews to packaging, logistics and industrial businesses.
- Sweet-spot targets: EV ~$100M–$1B, revenue ~$100M–$750M, EBITDA ~$10M–$150M, with equity checks generally in the ~$30M–$150M range.
- Emphasis on responsible / ESG-conscious investing — he sits on the firm's Responsible Investment Committee.
Notable Investments
- Fortaco Group — European provider of steel fabrications and cabins for off-highway/industrial OEMs; One Equity agreed to acquire it in 2022, and Lindhorst sits on its supervisory board.
- SGB-SMIT — German-headquartered transformer manufacturer; Lindhorst holds a board seat.
- Alltub — manufacturer of aluminum and laminate tubes/packaging (cosmetics, pharma, industrial); Lindhorst holds a board seat (aligns with his packaging focus).
- DESMI — Danish pump and fluid-technology company serving marine, industry, oil & gas, and defense markets; Lindhorst holds a board seat.
- Walki — packaging materials company; One Equity Partners agreed to sell it to Japan's Oji Group in 2023 (a firm-level exit consistent with his packaging/industrial focus).
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