Capital Partners

Capital Partners, Inc. is an investment firm specializing in direct and fund of fund investments. In fund of fund, it seeks to invest in private equity funds. In direct, it specializes in buyouts, lower-mid markets, middle-market, mature recapitalization, platform, add-on acquisitions, and small and mid-sized mature companies.

Capital Partners, Inc. was founded in 1982 by Brian D. Fitzgerald and is based in Norwalk, Connecticut. Capital Partners is a private equity investment firm that provides solutions for business owners, intermediaries, and executives. It is focused on helping management teams build businesses by combining strategic planning with a conservative capital structure.

Capital Partners has made 8 investments. One of their investments was on Sep 21, 2018, when they invested in Minimizer. Capital Partners has raised a total of $960M across 2 funds, their latest being Capital Private Equity Income Fund III. This fund was announced on Dec 8, 2017, and raised a total of $600M.

The firm prefers to invest in transportation, education, aftermarket products and services, food, distribution, manufacturing, and consumer products. It seeks to invest in companies based in North America with a focus on the United States. The firm typically between $10 million and $150 million in companies with an enterprise value between $15 million and $225 million, sales value between $15 million and $300 million, and EBITDA between $3 million and $25 million.

It prefers majority stake investment and can also acquire substantial minority stakes in companies that are or can be structured as pass-through entities. It prefers an investment horizon of five to ten years. The firm typically invests in companies that are asset purchases or equivalent preferred typically organized as S-Corporations (an S corporation is a closely held corporation or, in some cases, a limited liability company {LLC} or a partnership, that makes a valid election to be taxed under Subchapter S of Chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code), LLC’s, partnerships, and divisions of larger corporations.