About ARC
Investment Principles
ARC seeks equity investments of $25 million to $100 million or more in Canadian oil and gas companies.
Overview
ARC Financial Corp. is a Calgary-based, employee-owned, private equity management firm founded in 1989, with an exclusive focus on the energy industry.
In our early years, we established an industry-leading investment research capability that we leveraged to build a highly successful corporate advisory practice. We also began to invest as principals and with partners in the equity of early-stage energy companies, and to acquire oil and gas production assets.
The evolution of our production acquisition business led to the founding of ARC Resources Ltd. in 1996. ARC Resources Ltd. is a TSX-listed company (ARX) that has become one of the leading players in the Canadian oil and gas sector. The contract under which ARC Resources Ltd. was managed by ARC Financial Corp. was internalized in 2002, at which time the corporate affiliation between the two organizations ended.
Our investment research, corporate advisory and equity investment businesses evolved into an exclusive focus on private equity investing with the launch of our first fund in 1997. We have since raised five additional private equity funds. Collectively, the six ARC Energy Funds represent $2.7 billion of committed capital. Our investors are largely institutional, comprised primarily of endowments, family offices, pension funds and foundations from Canada, the United States and Europe. The mandate for the ARC Energy Funds is to provide growth equity capital for energy companies with a core focus on the Canadian oil and gas industry.
Since the establishment of Fund 1, we have invested over $2.4 billion in more than 160 portfolio companies. To date, we have distributed over $1.5 billion to our investors, and are currently invested in approximately 40 portfolio companies across Funds 3 – 6 that represent approximately $1.6 billion of invested and committed capital. We are actively investing and seeking opportunities that range in size from $25 million to $100 million with additional co-investment potential from our institutional investors.