Private equity · Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Buy.
Build.
Run well.
We buy, build and run businesses and real assets one deal at a time, and hold every one of them to one standard.
The firm
Dark Ice Capital is a private equity firm headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. We buy and build businesses one deal at a time, across hospitality, real estate, natural resources and energy, credit and insurance, consumer services, media, asset management, infrastructure and cost reduction advisory. Every business we buy reports the same core numbers, reviewed the same week, every month.
The register
Nine affiliates. Their own brands.
Nine platform companies under common ownership with Dark Ice Capital, which is built to advise their funds once they form. Each keeps its own name, brand and fund program.
See all nineHow we operate
Capital, and then the work.
Owning a business is the start. Running it well is the job.
Our approachOwn
We buy to own and run for the long term, one deal at a time.
Build
Every investment has a written plan and a 100-day plan before capital goes in.
Run
One operating standard, one reporting cadence and one set of controls.
Report
The same numbers to our investment committee every month, with nothing smoothed.
The platform companies
What the platform companies build.
How we invest
Five steps, in writing.
The same process for every acquisition.
Read the full processScreen
Every opportunity is checked for fit and routed under the allocation policy.
Indicate
If it fits, a non-binding indication, early.
Letter of intent
With a diligence budget agreed in advance.
Diligence
Quality of earnings, management, financing, legal, tax, regulatory and environmental review.
Approve
Investment committee approval, with a written value creation plan and 100-day plan.
Leadership
Our leadership. One standard.
Co-Founder and CEO
Alexandra Pohl
Leads Dark Ice Capital and chairs its investment committee.
Co-Founder and COO
William Pohl III
Runs operations and the integration of each business we buy, and is Co-Chair of the investment committee.
Head of Investor Relations
Suebina Wong
Leads the firm’s relationships with investors and the reporting they receive.
Principal, Investments
Joe Tobin
Finds, evaluates and helps execute the firm’s investments.
Dark Ice Capital is a new firm with no track record as a firm and has made no investments. Nothing is offered here.
Next step
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