Rebuilding Companies
Our experience shows us that companies tend to act "too little & too late" when facing crisis symptoms. The digital and sustainable transformations are impacting all businesses and responding too late and too little to those new challenges can endanger the profitability and liquidity of companies until a point of no return.
At RSQ, we help businesses to react on time and with enough effort to those challenges. For this, RSQ has built an integrated offering for helping companies adapt and take advantage of these changes to create sustainable long-term value.
Approach
We are entrepreneurs and we commit both our time and money to the companies we are investing in.
RSQ Investors focuses on investing in companies with restructuring potential. We use a realistic and no-nonsense approach.
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Our Core RSQ Team is involved in the value creation process through operational and strategic support by taking an active supervising role as a member of the board.
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Our Quanteus Group People are expert professionals that will provide hands-on support on an ad-hoc basis to realize the value potential.
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Our QuantIM network of independent experts and our TMO's with in-depth experience in transformation and management, bring the CXO expertise necessary in the transition period to enhance the value creation process.
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Our Investors Network provides the funds for the endeavor when necessary.
QuantIM's
Experts & TMO's
RSQ Core Team
Cockpit
Quanteus Group People
Investor Network
Process
The RSQ Investors approach includes 4 key steps: a quick scan before the investment, the structuring and closing of the transaction, the development of a transformation plan and ultimately its implementation by our core team, leveraged by our network of experts and investors.
Our value proposition: transform your company towards a more sustainable future.
Our long-term perspective and hands-on approach differentiate us from traditional private equity companies as we believe it takes time to rebuild companies and deliver significant value for all stakeholders.
1
Quick Scan
Strategic review resulting in strategic diagnostic
We check your needs
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Investment
Equity stake & funding
We invest in you
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Transformation Plan
Definition of the vision and the key objectives
We shape the new vision
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Execution
Execution of the transformation plan for long-term value creation
We live our vision
Investment criteria
Eroding companies due to digital and sustainability challenges but having a “going concern” perspective.
Size ~ EUR 10-30 MM turnover, with enough substance to justify RSQ Investors involvement.
Traditional sectors: professional services, industrial manufacturing, food, distribution, logistics, renewable energies…
Excluded: government, subsidy or public sector dependent companies; horeca, biotech.
Defendable market position.
Location: Benelux – focus on Belgium.
Management issues and/or prior unsuccessful strategic decisions not an issue per se.
Full operational control after investment.
Our investment strategy aims at building stronger businesses with a sustainable competitive advantage, that can benefit from our operational and strategic value-added approach.
Our shareholders
Kris Vansanten
Functional
Business Transformation, Due Diligence & Strategy, Turnaround, Crisis and Change Management
Sector
Finance, Private Equity, Telecom, Renewable Energy
Experience
Founder Quanteus; Consultant at McKinsey&Company, BBL (now ING), Research Assitant in Economics, KUL.
Education
Civil Engineering and Applied Economics, KUL; MBA, The University of Chicago Booth school of business
Evelyne van Wassenhove
Functional
General Management Strategy, Corporate Finance - M&A, Project Management
Sector
Telecom, Finance
Experience
Business Development Manager - M&A/Strategy Belgacom; Consultant at Arthur D. Little; Assistant in Economics, UCL
Education
Commercial Engineer, UCL-IAG; MBA The University of Chicago Booth school of business
