The Ugroup creates the opportunity to maximize shareholder value by providing management expertise, infrastructure, and access to capital. It applies business models that recognize and return investor value in the new and changing realities of the market.

When The Ugroup accepts an engagement its role is to:

• Identify appropriate partners.
• Provide hands-on operational assistance with an entrepreneurial team that's experienced in the particular segment.
• Enable turnaround of operations, businesses, or product lines through redirection, restructuring, and by leveraging core capabilities.
• Provide merger, acquisition, and partnership advisory to increase and leverage existing value of the primary business, subsidiaries, products, or technologies.
• Enable integration of operations to maximize synergy.

The Partners-in-Residence provide the heart of the operational expertise. All Partners have extensive hands-on operational experience in the segment-specific area necessary to create, assist, direct, and support clients and their program. Once the Ugroup is engaged, one of the Partners immediately turns his or her effort to championing the program and coordinating the support of the entire Ugroup organization and its resources and associations.