Stephens Group
Family Office · Little Rock (United States)
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The Stephens Group, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in mid venture, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, growth capital, and mature investments. The firm invests in all sectors with a focus on agriculture, energy, energy services and industrials, commercial and industrial products & services, software and tech-enabled services, business services, consumer services, food & beverage and consumer products, financial services, healthcare, technology infrastructure, media and telecommunications, opportunistic investments, engineered industrial products & specialty distribution, edtech freighttech, govtech, insurtech, vertical software internet infrastructure and B2B consumer food and beverage. Under industrial products it prefers to invest in aftermarket parts and accessories, engineered components (industrial and commercial automation and access controls), power transmission, flow, process, motion control, test and instrumentation and tools and supplies for specialty professional contractors (light equipment, consumable products). Under engineered industrial products it prefers to invest in aerospace and defense, engineered or proprietary components, OEM replacement parts, flow, process, motion and automation controls and advanced building products. Under industrial services it prefers to invest in infrastructure services (e.g., transmission and distribution, power generation, water and wastewater, transportation infrastructure, telecommunications)facility services (e.g., electrical mechanical contractors, HVACR and plumbing contractors, specialty MRO contractors), environmental services (e.g., EH&S compliance, remediation services, hazardous waste disposal, resource recovery) and other specialty industrial services (e.g., testing, inspection, certification & compliance, and MRO). It seeks to invest in all geographies with a focus on companies having headquarters in the North America, United States or Canada, for United States it focuses on Midwest, Southeast, and Southwest United States. For buyout, the firm seeks to invest between $25 million and $150 million in companies and having enterprise value between $50 million and $400 million, sales value of $5 million and $20 million, and EBIDTA of $5 million and $30 million and for growth equity, the firm seeks to invest between $5 million and $50 million in companies, sales value of $5 million and $20 million, and EBIDTA of nearing breakeven or greater. It typically invests in both private and public companies with at least $5 million in pre-tax earnings. The firm takes either majority, control acquisitions or significant minority stakes and seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies. The Stephens Group, LLC was founded in 1933 and is based in Little Rock, Arkansas with additional offices in Frankfurt, Germany; London, United Kingdom; and New York, New York.
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