About three decades ago, three friends M, N and P formed a private limited company named MNP Private Limited. They began their operations with four looms and hardly couple of employees in a deserted small village of Guja

About three decades ago, three friends M, N and P formed a private limited company named MNP Private Limited. They began their operations with four looms and hardly couple of employees in a deserted small village of Gujarat one of India's promising textile belts. Over the following years, with the hard labour and dedication of team, the business grew in size, volume as well as in profitability too. This help MNP Private Limited to expand its business from domestic market into exports market in the financial year 2018-19. With higher export margins and timely payment by foreign clients, later its business further emerged as a vertically integrated textile yarn manufacturer, knitted fabric and also ready-made garments producer. By 2022, MNP's leadership had an ambitious plan for further expanding into two new domestic plants with double of its existing capacity in the Northern part of the country, to make pan India presence. But they were also knowing that they have to look beyond their internal sources of funds and debt financing to achieve their goals. Because, in the recent past, the management had a bad experience for over-boarding bank financing. At the same time, the company never had an outside shareholder. Therefore, they are also hesitating to have someone unknown to them on the Board. Considering the whole scenario, their Company Secretary, suggested the top management to engaged some renowned consulting firm to explore the possibilities for some good quantum of equity infusion, so that their proposed expansion program can be funded properly. This process was also suitable to the company's founders, as they were accustomed with the private equity model as a viable alternative to an IPO, with much lower regulatory compliances. Therefore, they assigned their Company Secretary an assignment to explore and appoint some Private Equity firm interested in India's textile sector. After couple of options being explored and evaluated by the Company Secretary, he finally sorted out M/s High Tide Capitals, a Mumbai based private equity firm, actively looking for a large investment in India's textiles sector. In the meanwhile, one of the competing funds of M/s High Tide Capitals, after hearing this news offered a substantially high share purchase price offer to the top management of MNP Private Limited. After considering various pros and cons, the top management decided to opt with M/s High Tide Capitals as their partner. Because, to capitalize firm's significant expertise in the domestic textile industry as well as their links at the global textile trades through their Headquarters based at London. With this M/s High Tide Capitals joined as a minority shareholder, the relationship and mutual trust built with MNP gave a considerable sway over hiring, procurement, and other key aspects of the business. As a result, this gave a pace for setting transformations both in MNP's culture and its stature amongst its peers. M/s High Tide Capitals also help in addressing gaps of MNP's governance aspect that was one of the key hinderance in its ambitious expansion project. At the time of M/s High Tide Capitals investment, MNP Private Limited had no formal business plans and also does not have effective budgeting process through which the costs of several inputs were to be properly tracked. However, M/s High Tide Capitals also helped MNP Private Limited to design a proper business plan and budgeting process from scratch. All these support from M/s High Tide Capitals, has help to become an integral part of MNP's corporate culture and removed a bottleneck that had hampered plans for scaling operations. With passage of time, M/s High Tide Capitals is not considered as an outsider for MNP's top management, rather they are an integral part of top management. Based upon the case study, answer the following: (ii) What are the characteristics of private equity invested by High Tide Capitals?