ACG LA Capital Connection Pitchbook 2012-Business Summaries
ACG LA Capital Connection Pitchbook 2012-Business Summaries
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AEA Investors provides private equity capital, mezzanine, and senior debt to middle-market companies. AEA focuses on
control buyouts in four industry sectors: value-added industrial products, specialty chemicals, consumer products, and
services. The firm provides advice and insights on a broad range of issues to portfolio companies to improve operations,
strategies and financial performance. AEA is currently investing out of two private equity funds: a $2 billion middle-market
fund and a $350 million small business fund (SBF).
Healthcare Services
*Since 2010
8%
Alpine Investors is a San Francisco-based private equity firm. The firm’s objective is to invest in or acquire small- to mid-sized
United States-based companies with EBITDA greater than $5 million. The firm’s capital, $281 million under management,
may be used to provide full or partial liquidity to entrepreneurs, family members, estates, passive investors, or corporate
owners. Alpine will also consider minority investments for growth.
Retail
Commercial 17% B2C Transportation
Products 11%
17%
Communications and
Networking
B2C Services 5%
(Non-Financial)
22%
Commercial Consumer Durables
Services 6%
22%
Altamont Capital Partners (ACP) is a private equity firm based in the San Francisco Bay area with $500 million in capital,
focused on investing in change-intensive middle-market businesses. ACP is a generalist firm with experience in several
sectors including business services, financial services, industrials, healthcare, technology, consumer, and retail.
Software
16%
Consumer
Durables
17%
Pharmaceuticals and
Biotechnology
33% Retail
Other 17%
Financial
Services
17%
Audax Group invests in lower middle-market companies. With offices in Boston and New York, Audax has more than $4
billion in assets under management in its Private Equity, Mezzanine, and Senior Debt funds. Audax Private Equity invests in
control acquisitions of lower-middle market companies across a select group of industries. The private equity arm makes equity
investments of between $10 million and $100 million. The Mezzanine group focuses on mezzanine financings requiring $10
million to $60 million of capital. Audax Senior Debt provides investments of up to $20 million.
Avante Mezzanine Partners makes subordinated debt and minority equity investments in high quality, lower middle-market
businesses. Structured as a Small Business Investment Company, Avante invests between $5 million and $20 million of junior
capital in companies across the U.S. that generate at least $3 million in cash flow. Additionally, as a women-owned fund, one
of Avante Mezzanine Partners’ areas of interest, although not exclusive focus, is providing capital to women- and minority-
owned companies. Avante is headquartered in Los Angeles with an office in Boston.
Primary Contact:
Most Recent Closed Fund Jeri Harman
Name Vintage Type Size ($M) Partner
Avante Mezzanine Partners SBIC 2011 Mezzanine $218 (310) 667-9244
jharman@avantemezzanine.com
Commercial
Software Products
67% 33%
Baird Capital Partners, the U.S.-based buyout fund of Baird Private Equity, has been making buyout investments in lower
middle-market companies in the Business Services, Healthcare, and Manufactured Products sectors since 1989. The firm’s
global platform includes operating resources in China and India focused on facilitating and executing Asia sourcing,
manufacturing, and distribution strategies for its portfolio companies. The firm’s resources are complemented by Baird’s
industry research and strategic relationships.
Balmoral Funds is a Los Angeles-based private equity firm that invests in recapitalization, special situations, corporate
divestitures, and acquisitions of companies that are financially stressed, challenged, in need of financial or operational
restructuring, or undervalued by their markets and stakeholders.
Consumer
Commercial Products Durables
33% 17%
Bertram Capital is a private equity firm that partners with management teams to expand lower middle-market companies.
Bertram Capital provides operational and strategic resources to facilitate growth in revenue and profitability. Bertram
executes a buy-and-build strategy to grow platform companies through organic growth initiatives and the aggressive pursuit
of strategically accretive acquisitions.
Software
9%
Commercial Containers and Packaging
Products 4%
27%
Apparel and Accessories
5%
B2C Transportation
5%
Blue Wolf makes control investments in middle-market companies whose value is obscured by complexity in the form of
labor union relations, government contracts, and financial underperformance.
Branford Castle is a long-term investor in small- to medium-sized private companies. Traditionally, the firm makes control
and non-control investments in companies with up to $75 million in total enterprise value. Branford Castle was founded
by John K. Castle, the CEO and Chairman of Castle Harlan, and the prior President and CEO of Donaldson, Lufkin &
Jenrette. The firm’s capital sources are internal, allowing them to hold businesses indefinitely and to help make long-term
management decisions for the company.
B2B Transportation
11%
Commercial Products
78%
B2C Transportation
11%
Brazos Private Equity Partners is a Dallas-based private equity firm that manages approximately $1.4 billion of equity capital.
Brazos focuses on investments in leading middle-market commercial and industrial, consumer, healthcare, and business
services companies, seeking to partner with outstanding management teams and/or families of closely-held businesses to
maximize value. Brazos has been one of the most active middle-market private equity investment firms over the past decade,
having completed over 60 acquisitions.
Commercial
Services
16%
Healthcare
Services
17%
*Since 2010
Breakwater Investment Management is a private investment firm based in Los Angeles that makes direct investments in
small to lower middle-market businesses. The firm serves as general partner of Breakwater Structured Growth Opportunities
Fund, a $100 million open-ended private investment partnership seeking to invest primarily in growth-oriented companies
across a variety of industries. In addition to principal capital commitments, Breakwater provides strategic advisory and
operational experience to support the growth of companies. The Fund seeks investment opportunities that serve the long-
term growth and liquidity objectives for the respective companies.
Healthcare Devices
and Supplies
33%
Healthcare Technology
Systems
33%
Commercial Services
34%
Brockway Moran & Partners is a private equity firm that acquires growth-oriented middle-market companies valued between
$50 million and $300 million in partnership with management teams. Brockway Moran & Partners focuses on businesses
with significant growth opportunities either through internal expansion, industry consolidation, or innovative business
strategies. The firm invests in companies with EBITDA between $5 million and $30 million. Historical investments have
targeted the consumer, healthcare, industrial, and education sectors.
IT Hardware
10%
*Since 2010
Commercial Services
10%
Brrokside Equity Partners is an exclusive private investment vehicle through which two family offices invest in control
private equity.
Bunker Hill Capital is a private equity firm that makes control investments in lower middle-market companies with typical
enterprise values ranging between $30 million and $150 million and revenues of $30 million to $300 million.
Chemicals
and Gases Commercial
12% Products
IT Services 13%
12%
Commercial
Services
13%
Calera Capital, formerly known as Fremont Partners, is a private investment partnership. The firm invests across numerous
industries, including general industrials, building products, business services, food and consumer, healthcare, and financial
services. Calera Capital makes substantial equity investments in operating companies, typically with enterprise values of
$100 million to $1 billion, and seeks to build long-term sustainable value by working with management teams to implement
strategic and operating initiatives.
Commercial Banks
27%
Other
Commercial Services Financial Services
55% 9%
Consumer Durables
9%
*Since 2010
Caltius Mezzanine provides capital solutions to middle-market companies seeking senior debt, subordinated debt, and equity
in amounts ranging from $10 million to $75 million to support acquisitions, recapitalizations, buyouts, and organic growth.
B2C
Services (Non-Financial)
Healthcare Services 9%
25%
Insurance
8%
Century Park Capital Partners is a private equity firm that partners with owners and managers to grow and build companies. The
firm specializes in facilitating owner liquidity and business expansion by providing $10 million to $40 million equity investments
for minority and majority recapitalizations, growth financings, management-led buyouts, and acquisition financings.
Chip Roellig
Managing Partner
(650) 324-1956
B2C Transportation croellig@cpclp.com
33%
Textiles
33%
Commercial Products
34%
*Since 2010
Chatham Capital is a senior and mezzanine finance firm, investing in middle-market companies primarily in the healthcare,
manufacturing, and business service industry sectors. Based in Atlanta, the firm invests mainly in companies in the Southeast,
MidWest, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
CID Capital makes majority investments in lower middle-market consumer and industrial product businesses with a strong
history of consistent performance. The firm’s focus is on companies that have the potential to grow significantly but have
been constrained by lack of capital, operating systems, or management experience.
Consumer
Durables
IT Hardware 22%
22%
Consumer
Non-Durables
11%
*Since 2010
Compass Group Management LLC manages the day-to-day business and operations of Compass Diversified Holdings (NYSE:
CODI), a publicly traded holding company. CODI seeks to generate returns for its shareholders through the acquisition and control
of a diverse set of North American middle-market businesses. The group identifies, evaluates, negotiates, and where appropriate,
consummates acquisition opportunities on behalf of CODI with a preferred transaction size of $50 million to $350 million.
Commercial
Services Apparel and Accessories
17% 11%
Commercial
Products Consumer Durables
17% 5%
Convergent Capital is an investment company focused on providing growth and acquisition capital for businesses committed
to long-term, sustainable growth in a broad range of industries. Convergent is focused on providing debenture and
equity capital investments in a variety of situations, structuring investments around recapitalizations, sponsored buyouts,
management buyouts, consolidations, and add-on financings for their existing portfolio companies for acquisitions or other
special situations.
The Central Valley Fund provides private capital for small to mid-sized businesses. With a focus on Hispanic businesses in
California’s Central Valley, CVF’s capital is used to finance later stage growth, strategic acquisitions, ownership transitions,
and recapitalizations.
Commercial Services
33%
Consumer
Non-Durables
33%
Retail
34%
Cyprium Investment Partners is a private investment firm that provides mezzanine and equity capital to profitable middle-
market companies. The group provides any combination of subordinated debt, preferred equity, and/or common equity in
either noncontrol (minority ownership) or control (majority ownership) positions. Cyprium supports the growth, acquisition,
refinancing, or liquidity needs of private company owners and their management teams.
IT Hardware
20%
Consumer
Non-Durables Consumer
60% Durables
20%
*Since 2010
Deerpath Capital Management makes privately negotiated investments in the debt and equity of lower middle-market companies
and seeks to provide value-added financing with speed, flexibility, and skills with complex financial transactions. The firm
prefers to invest in companies with revenue of $10 million to $100 million, and EBITDA of $2 million to $20 million.
Commercial Services
100%
EBSCO is a privately held, multi-industry corporation that owns more than 40 businesses. The company continually seeks
to add new platform and strategic add-on acquisitions to their group. As a closely-held business itself, EBSCO’s strategy is
for acquired companies to maintain their entrepreneurial culture post transaction. EBSCO doesn’t divest its companies but
instead holds them for the long term.
Emigrant Capital, the private equity division of Emigrant Savings Bank, provides long-term capital to established middle-
market businesses that can benefit from the firm’s financial, operational and strategic resources. Emigrant makes majority or
significant minority investments and works closely with company management to build value. Emigrant Capital focuses on
cash flow positive companies with $3 million to $10 million in historical EBITDA, and considers turnaround opportunities
on a case-by-case basis.
Commercial Services
25%
Commercial
Products
Consumer 17%
Non-Durables
50%
Software
8%
Encore Consumer Capital is a private equity investment firm focused on the food and consumer products industries. The
firm manages $300 million of committed equity capital.
Agriculture
Consumer 11%
Non-Durables
78% Consumer
Durables
11%
Evergreen Pacific Partners (EPP) is a Seattle-based private equity firm that invests in buyouts, management-led recapitalizations,
and growth capital investments in established industry sectors. EPP is geographically focused on making portfolio investments
in businesses headquartered in the 13 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces west of the Rocky Mountains.
Media
Consumer Non-Durables
9%
9%
B2C
Transportation Restaurants, Hotels,
25% and Leisure
8%
B2C Transportation
8%
Commercial
Services Communications and
25% Networking
8%
Commercial Products
8%
Fifth Street Finance Corp. (NASDAQ: FSC) is a business development company (BDC) that lends to and invests in small-
and mid-sized companies in connection with investments by private equity sponsors. Fifth Street provides custom-tailored
financing solutions that are principally in the form of one-stop, senior secured, junior secured, and mezzanine debt, generally
ranging in size from $5 million to $100 million. Headquartered in White Plains, NY, Fifth Street also has offices in Greenwich,
CT, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
Consumer B2C
Durables Transportation
25% 25%
Commercial Healthcare
Products Services
25% 25%
*Since 2010
Frontenac Company is a private equity firm based in Chicago and founded in 1971. The firm works with proven executives
to acquire and grow successful middle-market companies, primarily in services industries. The firm primarily targets
middle-market companies and owner-operated businesses of various industries, including business services, consumer,
financial services (non-risk bearing), healthcare services, industrial and infrastructure-related services, marketing, media
and information services, and technology services sectors. The firm has more than $1 billion under active management and
is currently making investments from its ninth fund.
Other Information
IT Services Technology
20% 10%
Consumer Non-Durables
10%
Media
Commercial Services
10%
40%
Healthcare Services
10%
*Since 2010
Gen Cap America is a private investment firm investing in middle-market businesses with revenues between $5 million
and $100 million. The firm typically uses management buyout, corporate divestiture, recapitalization, and family succession
structures to invest in companies.
B2B
Transportation Consumer Non-Durables
17% Consumer 4%
Durables
Commercial B2C Transportation
10%
Services 3%
17%
Communications and
Networking
3%
Textiles
3%
Geneva Glen Capital (GGC) is a Chicago-based private equity firm that invests in lower middle-market companies (generally
less than $100 million in value). The firm partners with management teams to invest in proven private companies with
leading market positions, significant growth potential, and stable cash flows. GGC seeks control investments in companies
headquartered in the United States or Canada with EBITDA of $3 million to $20 million.
Goldner Hawn Johnson & Morrison is a private equity investment firm based in Minneapolis. The firm’s primary investment
focus is on acquiring control positions in lower middle-market businesses through acquisitions and recapitalizations. The
company has invested $550 million in 30 platform companies since its founding in 1989.
Consumer
Non-Durables
Commercial 18%
Products Healthcare Devices and
18% Supplies
9%
With more than $6 billion in capital under management, Golub Capital is a provider of financing solutions for the middle
market, including one-loan financings; senior, second lien, and subordinated debt; preferred stock; and co-investment equity.
The firm underwrites and syndicates senior credit facilities up to $250 million, and offers hold positions up to $150 million
per transaction. Golub Capital is a national firm with principal offices in Chicago and New York.
Healthcare
Technology Systems
15%
Commercial
Healthcare Services Services
43% 14%
Restaurants, Hotels,
B2C
and Leisure
Transportation
14%
14%
*Since 2010
H.I.G. Capital is a global private equity firm focused on management buyouts and recapitalizations of leading middle-
market companies as well as growth equity investments. With more than $10 billion of equity capital under management
and more than 225 investment professionals, the firm seeks to help talented management teams and entrepreneurs build
and strengthen their companies. H.I.G. Capital works closely with its portfolio companies, and provides capital as well as
industry knowledge and contacts. The firm is currently a significant investor in more than 70 U.S. and European companies
in a wide range of industries, with combined annual revenues in excess of $8 billion.
Consumer
B2C Transportation
Non-Durables
8%
Commercial 15%
Services
15%
Commercial Banks
8%
Software
15% Commercial Products
8%
Heathcare Services
23% IT Hardware
*in 2012 8%
Hammond, Kennedy, Whitney & Company (HKW) is a private equity firm headquartered in New York with an office in
Indianapolis that invests in privately owned businesses and subsidiaries or divisions of public companies. The firm focuses
on companies with a low risk of technological obsolescence and a sustainable competitive advantage with revenues between
$20 million and $200 million and EBITDA between $3 million and $30 million. The firm invests in management buyouts,
industry consolidations, corporate divestitures, ownership liquidity situations, recapitalizations, and growth equity.
B2B Transportation
Consumer
33%
Non-Durables
17%
*Since 2010
Huntington Capital is a mezzanine and growth equity private equity fund focused on small- and medium-sized companies in
the western United States. The firm’s capital helps fill the financing gap between venture capital equity, upper middle-market PE,
and commercial bank debt. Huntington seeks profitable companies with experienced management teams, proven products or
services, a defensible market position, annual sales of $10 million to $75 million, minimum EBITDA of $1 million, and financing
requirements of $2 million to $7 million. Huntington’s industry investment focus includes manufacturing, information technology
and software, consumer products and services, professional and business services, aerospace and defense, and healthcare.
B2C
Transportation
14% Energy Equipment
14%
Consumer
Durables
29%
IT Services
14%
Commercial Services
29%
*Since 2010
ICV Partners is a private investment firm that supports management leaders of strong companies at the lower end of the
middle market. With more than $440 million in capital under management, the principals of ICV have invested in 13
companies across a variety of industries.
Consumer
Consumer
Durables
Non-Durables
14%
18% Capital
Retail Markets/Institutions
9% 4%
Commercial
Services Pharmaceuticals and
18% Biotechnology
4%
Industrial Growth Partners is a private equity firm that provides equity capital to privately held, lower middle-market
manufacturing and manufacturing services companies. The firm invests equity in a wide range of transactions involving
a change of ownership, such as management buyouts, leveraged buyouts, corporate divestitures, recapitalizations, and
management buy-ins. It also provides growth capital to privately held companies.
IT Hardware
13%
Energy
Energy Services
Equipment
4%
8%
Communications and
Networking
Commercial Products 4%
63%
Commercial Services
4%
Textiles
4%
Insight Equity makes control investments in strategically viable, middle-market, asset-intensive companies across a wide range
of industries. Insight’s principals have acquired and managed businesses with more than $4 billion in aggregate revenue since
2000. The firm specializes in partnering with companies in complex or challenging situations, including corporate divestitures,
bankruptcies, restructurings, and family-owned liquidity events.
Metals, Minerals,
and Mining
11%
*Since 2010
JMH Capital is a private equity firm investing jointly with management teams across a wide range of transactions, including
recapitalizations, management buyouts, corporate divestitures, leverage buyouts, and spin-offs.
KCB Management is a family-owned private equity and real estate investment firm based in Pasadena, CA. KCB is a long-
term, control investor in growing small- to medium-sized companies in the western United States. KCB seeks to invest in
companies with stable or growing revenue and EBITDA of less than $5 million.
Retail
33%
B2C Transportation
33%
KRG Capital Partners is a private equity investment firm specializing in acquiring controlling interests in middle-market
companies. The firm engages in owner recapitalization, management-led buyout, outright purchase, and family succession
transactions. KRG Capital invests in companies with a history of operating profitability and strong growth prospects in the
specialty and niche manufacturing, distribution, and service industries.
Commercial Commercial
Products Services
25% 25%
B2B Transportation
4%
Insurance
Healthcare Services 4%
38%
Healthcare Devices
Supplies
4%
*Since 2010
Larsen MacColl invests in profitable and established companies in basic industries with annual sales ranging between $5 million
and $50 million. They seek to partner with companies with proven business models, solid management teams, and significant
growth opportunities. The firm is currently investing out of its second committed fund, Larsen MacColl Partners II, LP.
B2B Transportation
Commercial 7%
Products
23%
Consumer Non-Durables
8%
Textiles
8% Chemicals and Gases
8%
Lee Equity Partners is a middle-market private equity investment firm founded by Thomas H. Lee and manages more than $1
billion of capital. Lee Equity focuses on control buyouts and growth capital financings, typically investing $50 million to $150
million per transaction in companies with enterprise values of $100 million to $500 million. Target sectors include business
services, consumer and retail, distribution and logistics, financial services, healthcare services, and media.
Mainsail Partners is a San Francisco-based private equity firm that invests exclusively in bootstrapped businesses. The firm
invests between $5 million and $20 million per company and takes an active and collaborative management approach in
addition to providing capital.
Restaurants, Hotels,
and Leisure
Energy Services
18%
Commercial 9%
Services
18%
Pharmaceuticals and
Biotechnology
9%
Communications and
Healthcare Services
Networking
37%
9%
Merit Capital Partners manages more than $1.7 billion of capital through five institutionally sponsored limited partnerships.
The firm makes majority and minority investments by investing mezzanine and equity capital in middle-market companies
principally in the manufacturing, distribution, and services industries. Merit Capital Partners invests in established businesses
alongside owner operators, management teams, fundless and independent sponsors, and ESOPs.
Apparel and
Accessories
14%
Consumer
Durables
14%
Healthcare Devices
and Supplies
Consumer
29%
Non-Durables
14%
Commercial Products
29%
*Since 2010
Midwest Mezzanine Funds is a private equity firm that provides mezzanine financing to middle-market companies. Their
investment focus is on mature companies, buyouts, acquisition financing, recapitalizations, and growth capital with a focus
on consumer products, commercial products, industrial services, business services, industrial products, food products,
environmental, and for-profit post-secondary education. It seeks to invest between $4 million and $15 million in companies
located in the United States and Canada with EBITDA of at least $3 million per year. The firm does not seek to have a controlling
stake in its portfolio companies. The firm is based in Chicago, with an additional office in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Apparel and
Accessories
Commercial Products
11%
29%
Media
3%
Retail
3%
B2C Transportation
3%
Commercial Services
Chemicals and Gases
43%
4%
Containers and Packaging
4%
Moelis Capital Partners is the private equity business affiliated with Moelis & Company, a global independent investment
bank with nearly 600 employees. The group manages $700 million of committed capital and maintains a diverse portfolio of
middle-market companies.
Metals, Minerals,
IT Services Commercial Products
and Mining
14% 7%
14%
Commercial Services
7%
B2B Transportation
Chemicals and
7%
Gases
15%
Consumer Non-Durables
Healthcare 7%
Services
22% B2C Transportation
*Since 2011 7%
Monroe Capital is a private investment firm providing unitranche financings, cash flow, and enterprise value-based loans,
acquisition facilities, mezzanine debt, second lien or last-out loans, and equity co-investments to middle-market companies in
the United States. The group’s affiliate, Monroe Credit Advisors, assists private equity sponsors in raising and structuring debt
capita, and also provides advisory services with their existing lending relationships o.
New Heritage Capital is a private equity firm focused on investing in family-owned or founder-controlled businesses. The
firm makes non-control and control investments in health care services, business services, distribution, manufacturing,
aerospace, food and beverage, and consumer products companies. The company typically invests $15 million to $50 million
in companies with a minimum enterprise value of $30 million and/or a minimum EBITDA of $5 million.
B2B
Transportation
33%
Healthcare
Services
33%
Commercial
Products
34%
*Since 2010
Northstar Capital is an investment firm specializing in mezzanine financing. It looks to hold investments between five and
eight years. It tends to invest in companies generating annual revenue of between $20 million and $200 million and a history
of stable cash flow and profitability. Northstar Capital invests in a broad range of businesses located in the United States
and Canada. It takes special interest in value-added distribution, light manufacturing, business services, financial services,
education, and specialty healthcare.
B2C
Transportation Healthcare Services
17% 9%
Platte River Equity is a private equity investment firm focusing on small and middle-market operating companies. The firm typically
looks to make control investments in management buyouts and recapitalization transactions in the Aerospace & Transportation,
Industrial & Energy Services, and Chemicals, Metals, & Minerals sectors. The firm also pursues select minority equity investments
in companies in need of capital for growth, to make add-on acquisitions, or to assist in ownership transitions.
Metals, Minerals,
and Mining
6%
PNC Riverarch Capital is a division of PNC Capital Finance, a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of The PNC Financial Services
Group. Riverarch Capital is a middle-market private equity group that invests in privately-held companies headquartered
throughout North America. The firm seeks to invest between $10 million and $50 million per transaction, focusing on
recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, corporate divestitures, and growth financings.
Michael D. Rost
Managing Director
(412) 762-2245
michael.rost@pnc.com
Prospect Partners is a private equity firm that invests in smaller lower-middle-market companies. The firm seeks management-
led leveraged recapitalizations and buyouts of niche market leaders with revenues under $75 million (EBITDA under $8
million). Since 1998, the firm has invested in 90 companies in the niche manufacturing, distribution, and service industries.
Prospect Partners is currently investing its $200 million Fund III.
Communications and
Healthcare Services Networking
22% 11%
Consumer Commercial
Non-Durables Services
22% 11%
Consumer
Durables
Commercial
11%
Products
23%
*Since 2010
Prudential Capital Group is the private debt investment arm of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU). Prudential Capital
Group has been a provider of private debt, mezzanine, and equity securities to middle-market companies worldwide for
more than 70 years. Prudential Capital offers senior debt and mezzanine capital, leveraged leases, credit tenant leases, and
commercial equipment and asset finance. The global regional office network has locations in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas,
Frankfurt, London, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Newark, N.J., New York, Paris, and San Francisco.
Commercial
Services
33% IT Hardware
17%
IT Services
Commercial 17%
Products
33%
*Since 2010
Realty Income is a publicly traded real estate company (NYSE: “O”) that pays monthly dividends to its shareholders. The
company owns and generates revenue from over 2,700 commercial properties in 49 states, with most of the properties
operating under a triple-net lease in which the tenant pays Realty Income monthly rent while paying a majority of the
operating expenses themselves.
Renovo Capital is a private equity group formed to invest in smaller, middle-market companies in North America, providing
equity capital in complex situations for businesses facing liquidity short-falls and profitability challenges. Renovo acts as
either a lead investor or a co-investor with entrepreneurs, management teams, family offices, or private equity investors
across a wide array of manufacturing, distribution, and service businesses. Renovo Capital has offices in Dallas and Denver.
Consumer
Non-Durables
Consumer 12%
Durables
25% Retail
13%
B2C Services
(Non-Financial)
13%
Commercial
Products
37%
River Associates Investments was founded in 1989 as a private equity partner for management teams in buyouts, divestitures,
and recapitalizations of lower middle-market companies. River Associates has invested in companies operating in a wide
variety of industries including manufacturing, high-margin distribution, industrial services, and select retail businesses.
The firm will invest throughout the United States and Canada and focuses primarily on companies with adjusted operating
income (EBITDA) ranging from $3 million to $10 million.
Saw Mill Capital is a middle-market buyout firm that makes control equity investments in manufacturing and service companies
with enterprise values of $25 million to $150 million. The group targets platform investments with $5 million to $25 million of
EBITDA, but will pursue smaller opportunities as add on acquisitions to their existing portfolio companies. Saw Mill Capital
does not invest in retail, healthcare services, media/telecom, information technology, financial services, personnel based
services, apparel, or businesses driven by fashion or fad.
Energy Services
4%
Commercial
Products Containers and Packaging
44% 4%
B2B Transportation
4%
Sentinel is a lower middle-market private equity firm in the United States investing in buyouts, restructurings, divestitures,
acquisitions of family businesses, and going private transactions in partnership with management. The group also invests
in special situations including balance sheet restructurings and modest operational turnarounds. Sentinel seeks businesses
with attractive prospects and high-quality management teams who are interested in becoming owners of the companies
they operate. Based in New York, Sentinel makes equity investments in companies in the United States and Canada, and has
approximately $1.25 billion of capital under management.
Healthcare Services
22%
Restaurants, Hotels,
and Leisure
14%
Pharmaceuticals and
Commercial Products Biotechnology
50% 7%
Textiles
*Since 2010 7%
Serent Capital is a private equity firm focused on investing in high-growth service businesses. The firm focuses on buyouts and
recapitalizations of fast-growing, profitable companies in North America. Serent Capital usually commits $10 million to $100
million in capital to an investment and seeks companies generating $3 million to $10 million EBITDA. The firm seeks to invest
in business services, healthcare services, financial services, education services, and tech-enabled services.
Software
12%
Commercial
Services
Healthcare 12%
Services
50% B2C Services
(Non-Financial)
13%
Other Consumer
Products and Services
13%
SFW Capital Partners is a private equity fund specializing in analytical tools and outsourced analytical services. This includes
providers of instrumentation and related sensors; consumables and reagents; software; information; and business services. SFW’s
companies are often involved in research, engineering, product development, quality control, testing, measuring, diagnostics,
process control and/or process monitoring, business intelligence, information or data analytics, marketing, or other critical decision-
making processes within companies. SFW invests across all end markets in North America and selectively in Western Europe.
Software
18% Chemicals and Gases
9%
IT Hardware
18% Commercial Services
9%
Sun Capital Partners is a private investment firm focused on leveraged buyouts, equity, debt, and other investments in
market-leading companies that can benefit from its in-house operating professionals and experience. Sun Capital affiliates
invest in companies which typically have the number one or two market position in their industry, long-term competitive
advantages, and significant barriers to entry. Sun Capital has offices in Boca Raton, Los Angeles, and New York, and affiliates
with offices in London, Frankfurt, Paris, Luxembourg, Shanghai, and Shenzhen.
Healthcare Services
Commercial
4%
Products
25% Commercial Services
4%
Superior Capital Partners manages a committed equity fund which makes control investments in the lower middle
market. They invest their capital into underperforming, underfunded, or distressed companies with an identifiable path
to improvement. The companies the group partners with offer differentiated products or services in niche markets but face
performance problems, resource constraints, or require a balance sheet restructuring. Deal types include underperforming
companies, restructurings, corporate divestitures, MBOs, 363 purchases, and recapitalizations.
IT Hardware
13%
Commercial Media
Services 13%
14%
Commercial
Products Consumer Non-Durables
20% 7%
Sverica International is a private equity firm focused on investing in middle-market owner-operated businesses. Sverica is
a “generalist” middle-market buyout firm, focused on investing in service, light manufacturing, and distribution businesses.
It also seeks opportunities in educational services, healthcare services, pet care services, security and alarm monitoring,
outsourced services to the financial and legal sectors, and specialty coatings.
Commercial
Services
16%
Software
67%
Healthcare
Services
17%
*Since 2010
Tamarix Capital is a private investment firm that finances lower middle-market companies. The firm primarily seeks to work
with local businesses in the United States. The four main industry sectors in which the firm invests are business and financial
services, consumer, distribution and logistics, and industrial and niche manufacturing.
Commercial
Products
33%
IT Software
33%
Healthcare
Devices and
Supplies
34%
Edgewater Funds is a private equity firm based in Chicago, with nearly $2 billion in capital under management. The firm
invests primarily in companies with revenues of $20 million to $500 million and EBITDA between $5 million and $25
million. Edgewater Funds also invests in partnership with its affiliate Bolder Capital.
Textiles
11%
Commercial
Software
Services
22%
11%
Energy
Equipment
11%
Commercial
Products
Healthcare Devices
34%
and Supplies
*Since 2010 11%
The Gladstone Companies are a family of public and private investment funds with approximately $1.2 billion invested. Its
funds invest in small- and medium-sized companies to fund growth, acquisitions, and recapitalizations. Gladstone provides
financing across the capital structure from second lien debt and subordinated debt to equity and real estate sale-leaseback
financing. Gladstone offers companies, management teams, and sponsors a broad range of customized investment products
and transaction structures. Financing for The Gladstone Companies is provided by three public investment vehicles: Gladstone
Capital Corporation, (NASDAQ: GLAD), Gladstone Investment Corporation, (NASDAQ: GAIN), and Gladstone Commercial
Corporation, (NASDAQ: GOOD).
Consumer Durables
9%
Commercial
Products
IT Services
64%
9% Energy Services
9%
*Since 2010
The Jordan Company is a private investment firm that specializes in buying and building businesses in partnership with
management. The firm provides liquidity for owners, raises capital for corporate growth, and creates significant equity
opportunities for key management. It has approximately $6 billion of capital under management and targets middle-market
companies with enterprise values between $100 million and $2 billion.
Communications
and Networking
IT Services 6%
Commercial
6%
Products
38%
B2B Transportation
*Since 2010 6%
The Pritzker Group focuses on acquisitions of North American-based companies with enterprise values between $75 million
and $400 million. The group seeks to acquire high-quality middle-market businesses with leading positions within the
manufactured products, healthcare, and services sectors. Together with their venture capital team, Pritzker has acquired or
invested in more than 80 companies.
The Riverside Company is a global private equity firm focused on acquiring growing enterprises valued at up to $200 million (200
million euros in Europe). The firm partners with management teams and grows its investments through acquisitions and organic
growth. Since its founding in 1988, Riverside has invested in more than 280 transactions with a total enterprise value of more than
$5 billion. The firm’s portfolio in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region includes more than 75 companies with roughly
14,000 employees. Riverside has more than $3 billion in assets under management and more than 200 professionals in 20 offices.
Healthcare
Software Services
18% 12%
Consumer
Durables
12% Commercial Products
Healthcare Devices 6%
and Supplies
17% B2B Transportation
6%
Commercial
Services
23% Chemicals and Gases
*in 2012 6%
TPG Capital is a global private investment firm founded in 1992 with $49.4 billion of assets under management. TPG Growth
is the middle-market platform of TPG Capital and is currently comprised of approximately 30 investment professionals in
offices in San Francisco, New York, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Mumbai. With approximately $3.4 billion under management,
the firm typically seeks to invest in businesses that have strong growth prospects and can benefit from leveraging the
competencies, contacts, resources, and breadth of the broader TPG organization.
Communications IT Hardware
and Networking 20%
20%
Healthcare
Technology Systems Commercial
20% Services
20%
Software
*since 2011 20%
Based in Palo Alto, CA, Tregaron Capital was formed in 2001 to invest in small- and medium-size private companies in the western
United States. The firm makes both mezzanine debt and equity investments, typically in amounts from $2 million to $5 million.
Commercial Products
IT Services 10%
20%
Retail
30%
Trivest Partners is a private equity firm founded in 1981 and headquartered in Miami. Trivest focuses on partnering exclusively
with growing, profitable founder/family-owned businesses in North America with a preference for companies located in
the southeastern United States. Trivest acquires profitable manufacturing and distribution, business services, and consumer
companies. Trivest strongly prefers to be the first institutional owner in a business, and the firm has achieved this goal in 50
instances since 2000. Since the firm’s founding more than 31 years ago, Trivest has completed more than 180 transactions
totaling more than $4.7 billion in value.
Consumer
Durables
27% Services (Non-Financial)
9%
IT Services
9%
Commercial
Products
46% Commercial Services
9%
*since 2010
TSG Consumer Partners is a middle-market private equity firm focused on investing in branded consumer companies. TSG
typically invests in the branded food, beverage, restaurant, apparel, accessories, health and wellness, beauty and personal care,
household care, footwear, pet care, and consumer services industries. The firm seeks to invest between $20 million and $125
million of equity into each of its partnerships and seeks companies with annual revenues between $20 million and $300 million.
Valor Equity Partners is a Chicago-based, middle-market private equity firm that primarily makes control equity investments in
companies with $5 million to $15 million in EBITDA in the following industry sectors: industrial products and manufacturing,
infrastructure and industrial maintenance, value-added distribution, consumer and restaurants, energy services, healthcare, and
business services. Valor has more than $500 million under management and is currently investing from its $300 million Fund II.
Energy Services
Commercial 4%
Products Retail
22% 4%
Consumer Durables
4%
Vance Street Capital is a Los Angeles-based private equity firm that makes control investments in companies with enterprise
values up to $200 million. Preferred industries include aerospace and defense, medical components and devices, precision
industrial manufacturing, and business services. For more than two decades, Vance Street’s partners have worked with
management, family owners, and other co-investors to build and grow the companies in its investment portfolio.
IT Hardware
33%
Semiconductors
22%
Commercial
Products
34%
B2B Transportation
11%
Versa Capital Management is a private equity firm focusing on special-situation investing in middle-market companies,
including divestitures, restructurings, and reorganizations. Versa invests in all facets of a company’s capital structure, and works
with companies that have underperforming operations or are in financial distress. Versa invests $10 million to $100 million per
transaction in companies with $50 million or more in revenues and enterprise value between $25 million to $500 million.
Retail
16%
Media
33%
Healthcare
Services
17%
Consumer Commercial
Durables Services
17% 17%
*since 2010
Victory Park Capital is an alternative-asset management firm that provides financing advisory services for small-cap and
middle-market companies. The firm’s areas of interest include notes, debentures, convertible debt instruments, asset-based
lines of credit, debtor-in-possession finance, bridge finance, acquisition finance, recapitalizations, and restructurings. The
firm specializes in turning around distressed small- and middle-market companies.
B2C Transportation
20%
Commercial
Restaurants,
Products
Hotels, and Leisure
20%
20%
Consumer Consumer
Non-Durables Finance
20% 20%
VMG Partners is a private-equity partnership with a focus on investing in marketing-driven, branded consumer product
companies. The group seeks to invest in lower middle-market companies with $15 millton to $150 million in revenues,
strong sustainable gross margins, and proven consumer brand equity and growth potential. VMG primarily invests in the
food, beverage, personal care, pet products, lifestyle, wellness, apparel, and household products industries.
Consumer
Non-Durables
87%
Wafra Partners is a private equity firm that seeks to invest in and build successful middle-market companies. The firm
purchases control or significant minority positions in companies with strong management, high upside, discernible value,
and growth drivers. Wafra Partners provides financial springboard and strategic and analytical resources to help owners and
managers meet corporate goals, and targets companies with revenue above $20 million and EBITDA above $4 million. The
firm primarily invests in specialty services, niche manufacturing, and consumer-driven industries.
Services
Media
(Non-Financial)
25%
25%
Commercial
Products
Commercial 13%
Services
37%
*since 2010
Webster Capital provides equity financing, expertise, and a broad contact network for management buyouts and growth capital.
Retail
8%
Healthcare
Services B2C Transportation
31% 8%
Software
8%
Commercial Products
8%
Wedbush Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on recapitalizations, growth investments, and management
buyouts of lower middle-market companies. Since 1980, Wedbush Capital has been acquiring companies headquartered in
the western United States with revenues up to $50 million and EBITDA of $1 million to $7 million. The firm’s preferred initial
investment is $5 million to $10 million. Wedbush Capital is an affiliate of Wedbush Securities.
Healthcare Technology
Commercial
Systems
Communications Products 5%
and Networking 11%
17% Apparel and Accessories
5%
Healthcare Devices Consumer Durables
and Supplies 5%
17%
B2C
Commercial Consumer Non-Durables
Transportation
Services 6%
17%
17%
Wingate Partners is a private equity firm that holds controlling equity interests in manufacturing, distribution, and service
businesses, typically with revenues between $50 million and $250 million. The firm acquires businesses in two categories:
under-performing companies and industries in transition.
B2C
Transportation
33%
Commercial
Products Forestry
34% 33%
*since 2010
AloStar Business Credit provides asset-based financing solutions to middle-market companies nationwide. The firm’s focus is
on providing working capital and term debt facilities in the $5 million to $20 million range. AloStar Business Credit is the asset-
based lending arm of AloStar Bank of Commerce.
Primary Contact:
Darryl Karmen
Director
(714) 389-1266
dkarmen@alostarbank.com
Citi Private Bank provides highly tailored lending strategies based on special situations and assets that do not fall within a
traditional group, often partnering with other Citi businesses to bring other expertise to the transaction. Citi Private Bank helps
to meet the tailored financing needs of private equity firms and their general partners by providing liquidity to their funds,
their management companies, and the individual partners. Citi Private Bank provides fund credit facilities, support for direct
borrowing, letters of credit, and pre-settlement exposure associated with derivative hedging strategies.
Primary Contact:
Brad Pollard
Director
(310) 205-3005
bradford.pollard@citi.com
Cole Taylor Business Capital provides a range of commercial lending products and services primarily to commercial customers
across the United States. The company operates as the holding company for Cole Taylor Bank. Its loan portfolio primarily
consists of loans for working capital, business expansion or acquisition, owner-occupied commercial real estate financing,
revolving lines of credit, and stand-by and commercial letters of credit. In addition, it provides treasury cash management
services, personal customized credit, wealth management, and brokerage services through third-party providers.
East West Bank is a full-service commercial bank. The company’s operating segments include retail and commercial banking, as
well as treasury management, FX, and interest rate management services. It provides commercial, construction, and residential
loans, and it finances international trade, with special emphasis on the Greater China region. The bank is active in specialized
lending areas such as leveraged finance, technology lending, agricultural lending, and entertainment industry lending. In leveraged
finance, the bank focuses on cash-flow buyout transactions with EBITDA between $5 million and $15 million.
Primary Contact:
Ernest Fung
Senior Vice President
(415) 315-3138
ernest.fung@eastwestbank.com
First Capital is a specialized commercial finance company, providing asset-based lending, traditional factoring, invoice
purchasing, accounts receivable securitization, real estate lending, mergers and acquisitions, management buy-out financing,
and funds financing solutions. It also offers compliance monitoring, bankruptcy and debt restructuring, and personalized loan
management services. The corporation provides between $3 million and $20 million credit facilities.
Contact
601 South Figueroa Street
Suite 3460
Los Angeles, CA 90017
United States
(213) 412-1540
Primary Contact:
Matt Grimes
Executive Vice President,
Western Region ABL Manager
213-412-1570
mgrimes@firstcapital.com
H.I.G. WhiteHorse provides debt financing to middle-market companies in North America and Europe. H.I.G. WhiteHorse
has a broad investment mandate to provide senior and subordinated debt for refinancing, growth capital, acquisitions, buyouts,
and balance sheet recapitalizations. Credit facilities typically range in size from $15 million to $100 million for companies with
revenues of $50 million or more. H.I.G. WhiteHorse is an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, a global private investment firm with more
than $8.5 billion of equity capital under management.
Primary Contact:
Patrick White
Principal
(415) 439-5100
pwhite@higwhitehorse.com
MidCap Business Credit is a commercial lender that provides working capital loans from $1 million to $10 million for companies
unable to obtain traditional bank financing. The firm works with small and mid-size manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers,
and service companies throughout the United States.
Contact
433 South Main Street
Suite 212
West Hartford, CT 06110
United States
(800) 970-9997
Primary Contact:
Tom Hruden
Vice President
(800) 970-9997 x159
thruden@midcapcredit.com
Oxford Finance is a specialty finance firm providing senior secured loans to public and private life sciences and healthcare
companies worldwide. In recent years, Oxford has originated over $1.5 billion in loans, with lines of credit ranging from
$500,000 to $50 million.
Primary Contact:
Brett Crabtree
Senior Director, Business Development
(949) 936-2534
bcrabtree@oxfordfinance.com
Sherwood Partners provides business advisory and consulting services. Its services include corporate restructuring, crisis
management, mergers and acquisitions, corporate due diligence, interim management, strategic planning, strategic partnerships,
corporate finance, debt restructuring, and asset liquidation.
Contact
1100 La Avenida Street
Building A
Mountain View, CA 94043
United States
(650) 454-8001
Primary Contact:
Martin D. Pichinson
Managing Member
(650) 454-8030
mdp@shrwood.com
Union Bank is a commercial bank that offers checking accounts, savings accounts, individual retirement accounts, and
certificates of deposit, and also provides private banking, business financing, home equity, mortgage, vehicle loans, credit cards,
investment and financial management, global custody, trust and estate plan administration, and deposit and cash management
services. It serves consumers, small businesses, the middle market, real estate, corporate, correspondent, and trade finance,
as well as commercial finance, environmental services, nonprofit, healthcare finance, aerospace and defense, private equity,
communications, media, entertainment, energy, public utility, retailing, and other specialty industries.
U.S. Bank provides diversified financial services in the United States. The company operates more than 3,000 banking offices and
5,000 ATMs, and provides a comprehensive line of banking, brokerage, insurance, investment, mortgage, trust, and payment
services products to consumers, businesses, and institutions.
Jan Hanssen
Origination and Marketing
(818) 817-7237
jan.hanssen@usbank.com