eXium Capital Partners is a specialist firm dedicated to corporate transformation in distressed and special situation environments. Our founding team has a proven track record of leading complex turnarounds and capital restructurings, backed by strong capabilities in private debt and risk management. We structure innovative capital solutions that help companies stabilize operations, restore financial equilibrium, and return to a path of sustainable performance.
Since our founding, we have transformed businesses across diverse industries, including food, tourism, and textiles, executing investments and realizing exits on expedited cycles, often in under 18 months.
We are recognized as a pioneer in the distressed space for mid-sized companies in Colombia and the region, with founding partners operating in this segment since 2008. Backed by a young, dynamic team with meaningful experience across private equity, private credit, and risk management, we prioritize flexibility and precision. We deliver tailored financial and operational transformation plans built around each company’s realities.
Team
Partners:
Fernando Concha
Extensive experience in private credit and private equity, asset management, and the insurance sector.
Currently CEO of a private equity fund manager focused on structuring and raising private debt vehicles.
Previously, he served as COO of a Colombia-based private equity fund, leading the execution of USD 300 million in transactions.
Earlier in his career, he was CEO for Latin America at RSA Insurance.
Juan Carlos Paredes
Attorney with 18+ years of experience advising on complex litigation and insolvency matters.
Founder of Paredes López Asociados, where he has counseled institutions and companies including Hocol and the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce, among others.
Prior to founding the firm, he spent more than nine years at Brigard & Urrutia Abogados in the Litigation and Restructuring practice.
He has also served as an investor, deal structurer, and advisor to companies including Edospina, Grupo Areia, Agilitix, Conoobras, and Sociedad Minera del Norte S.A.S., among others.
Alejandro Escallón
Extensive experience in private credit, asset management, and investment banking.
Founder of Abaco Finance, an investment banking firm focused on debt, equity, and international financing transactions, with eight deals completed to date.
Previously, he was part of the Ashmore-CAF private debt fund, where he deployed COP 1.4 trillion in debt investments.
Earlier in his career, he worked at INVERLINK, a leading investment banking platform in the Andean region.
Juan Carlos González
Extensive experience in trade finance, factoring, and corporate working-capital solutions.
Founder and CEO of Grupo Factoring de Occidente, scaling the business to a COP 600,000 million credit portfolio by 2019. In 2016, private equity fund Kandeo invested and acquired a 50% ownership stake.
In 2019, Latam Trade Capital—one of the region’s leading working-capital financiers—acquired 100% of Grupo Factoring de Occidente.
Investment Thesis
eXium Capital Partners focuses on the acquisition of distressed companies.
The challenges faced by acquired companies may result from excessive leverage, weak corporate governance, management underperformance, or shareholder disputes. eXium creates value through commercial support, liability and obligation restructuring, and performance-based incentive packages that align management with value creation.
eXium targets companies facing short-term dislocations rather than structural impairment. We identify the key value drivers, prioritize resources accordingly, and invest in businesses with attractive gross margins and strong near-term turnaround potential.
Investment Process
Target Identification. We prioritize businesses experiencing temporary dislocations—not structural impairment.
Transaction Structuring. Acquisition through earn-out arrangements with sellers or by assuming the company’s liabilities.
Management Incentive Plan Structuring. Design and implementation of incentive plans for the company’s management team.
Liability Restructuring. Restructuring of liabilities, including but not limited to proceedings under Colombian Law 1116.
Commercial and Strategic Support. Active support in the company’s commercial and strategic management.
Exit. Sale of the equity stake in the transformed and restructured company.
Track Record Exium
DAI is a regulated private equity fund backed by institutional investors and family offices. Our objective is to identify and transform companies with high growth potential by providing capital and strategic guidance.
The fund operates in compliance with applicable regulations and follows leading market practices for private equity in Colombia. Our governance and operating structure are designed to ensure transparency, robustness, and responsible stewardship before regulators and stakeholders.
DAI is supported by an experienced team and specialized talent dedicated to accelerating performance across portfolio companies. We have executed multiple strategic investments, each selected with discipline and aligned with our investment thesis and value-creation approach.
DAI Fund Portfolio Companies
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lucas.lafita@exium.com.co
Bogotá
Cra. 7 No. 84A -29
Office 403