What we look for
We buy control of established businesses and help them grow. If a company fits the profile below, we'll give you a fast, clear answer.
- EBITDA
- $2M to $10M (lower for turnarounds)
- Transaction type
- Control (majority) acquisitions
- Geography
- Western and Midwestern United States
- Industries
- manufacturing, building products, engineered components, distribution and distributorships, industrial and building services, IP-related businesses, and financial services
- Situations
- founder and family successions, corporate carve-outs, and underperforming or distressed companies, including court-supervised sales
- Not a fit
- software and technology
Operators first.
After 20 years of running businesses ourselves, we've found that the owners we partner with appreciate working with people who understand what it takes to run their company, because we've been in their shoes. We help with operations, sales and finance where it adds value, and we keep strong management teams in place.
Flexible structures.
We use senior debt, seller financing and rollover equity to fit each transaction, and we're happy to walk through how we'd structure a deal.
Committed capital.
Each acquisition is backed by equity from our partners and a small group of LPs.
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Your team stays. We buy businesses because of the people running them, and we plan to keep them.
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You deal with the decision makers. Our partners run every deal directly, so answers come from the people who sign.
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We know how your business runs. We have built factories, run dealerships and managed crews, so our diligence focuses on what matters.
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A structure built around your goals. Full exit, staged transition or rollover equity: we design the deal around what you want next.
If you're thinking about succession, a partial sale or the next stage of growth, we'd be glad to talk confidentially.