ARC Financial Corporation

ARC Financial Corp. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in direct and fund of fund investments. Within direct investments, it invests in buyouts and early-stage private and public companies. The firm seeks to invest in seed/startups, recapitalizations, a turnaround of under-performing companies, and growth capital transactions. Within fund of funds, it invests in private equity funds. It seeks to invest in the energy sector with a focus on oil and gas; conventional exploration and production including in heavy oil strategies and non-conventional natural gas including coal bed methane, shale, and tight gas opportunities; energy development, services, and infrastructure including energy resource development, power generation sectors and emerging new sources of energy supply such as the oil sands and renewable energy; oilfield services including services and equipment to the upstream oil and gas industry such as drilling and completion, fossil fuel exploration, development and production, tanks and valves, seismic processing, and data management; power generation; and emerging new sources of supply such as oil sands, unconventional gas, and renewables. The firm invests in Canada, the United States and Europe and globally. It typically invests between CAD$5 million (US$4.02 million) and CAD$250 million (US$195.10 million) in companies with enterprise values up to US$250 million for 20% to 80% majority stake in the portfolio companies. The firm prefers to have a long-term investment in its companies.