SFW Capital Partners, L.P.
PE/Buy-Out · Rye (United States)
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SFW Capital Partners, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in investments in growth capital, buyouts, bridge, industry consolidation, management-led and complete buyouts, turnaround, emerging growth, corporate carve-outs and divestitures, public to private transactions, recapitalization of founder-owned and family businesses, partnerships with strategic or financial buyers and family-owned businesses and generational transitions in mid-sized, later stage, middle market, and mature companies. The firm prefers to invest in analytical tools and related service companies including providers of instrumentation and related software, information, and analytical business services that are often involved in research, product development, engineering, quality control, measurement, diagnostics, sales and marketing, or other critical decision-making processes within companies. It invests across all end markets, typical end markets, and sectors include healthcare and life sciences, life sciences tools, controls, process instruments, fluid handling, sample preparation, automated assembly equipment, robotics, motion control, inspection systems, industrial, public infrastructure, rail, marine, trucking & logistics, food, measuring devices, laboratory products, Labs and test, Inspection, and certification (TIC) services transportation and logistics, aerospace and defense, consumer and retail, specialty chemicals, kits, industrial automation, biopharmaceutical, agriculture, beverage, discrete, process manufacturing electronics, utilities, technology media and telecom, energy and power, financial technology, and industrial technology. Within instrumentation and related, the firm invests in lab instruments, field instruments, test and measurement equipment, diagnostic devices, process control instruments, sensors, monitors, components for instruments or devices, and consumables, reagents and apparatus. Within software, informatics and HCIT, it invests in analytical software, industry vertical software, process management and logistics software, compliance software, decision support and predictive analytics, industrial, manufacturing, utilities software, life sciences software, bioinformatics and application software. Within information, the firm invests in providers of business intelligence, data analytics, diagnostic information, market and competitive information and benchmarking information. Within analytical businesses services, it invests in technology enabled business services, clinical and diagnostic testing laboratories, outpatient testing and monitoring services, product testing and safety laboratories, clinical support services / core labs, and market research, consulting and information service firms. Within production & processing equipment, it invests in lab products, critical production. Within critical outsourced services, it invests in inspection, certification, Compliance services, Testing labs, Integrators, VARs, Outsourced pharmaceutical services (e.g. CRO, CDMO, consulting) and Specialty distribution. Within components and consumables, it invests in high-value chemicals, reagents and standards, proprietary parts, differentiated consumables, testing and monitoring kits. The firm typically invests in Europe and in North America with a focus on the United States and Canada. It seeks to make investments between $10 million and $100 million in its portfolio companies with enterprise value between $10 million and $300 million, and EBITDA between $2.5 million for platform companies and $20 million. The firm prefers to invest in companies in with minimum EBITDA is Break even. The firm prefers to invest in a companies with revenues $10 million to $250 million. The firm also invests larger amounts in certain situations with support from its partners. The firm only seeks significant minority transactions and majority stakes. It also considers platform investments in growing companies that may still be unprofitable and/or companies with significant structural or operational complexity. The firm actively seeks add-on acquisitions for select portfolio companies (strategic fit is more important than size or profitability). It seeks to make control investments but also selectively considers minority investments. SFW Capital Partners, L.P. was founded in 2007 and is based in Rye, New York.
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