Wingate Partners, LLP

Wingate Partners, LLP is a private equity firm specializing in mid-market buyouts, turnarounds, mature middle market companies, recapitalization, carve outs, management transitions, add-on acquisitions, industry consolidation, under-performing companies, middle market companies and industries in transition. The firm does not invest in banking, insurance, real estate, media, natural resources, and high technology sectors. It prefers to invest in manufacturing, distribution, and service industries with a focus on consumer discretionary and industrial services sectors. The firm invests in companies headquartered in the United States and Canada. The firm prefers to invests between $5 million to $40 million equity investments, enterprise values between $25 million and $100 million, with companies having EBITDA between $5 million and $25 million. The firm primarily invests in standalone companies with revenues between $50 million and $500 million, sometimes significantly larger and transaction values between $25 million and $150 million. For add-on acquisition, it invests in businesses with revenue of any size for existing portfolio companies. The firm invests in larger transactions by co-investing with limited partners or other investor groups and smaller transactions can be considered when the target company can be an add-on for an existing portfolio company. It seeks to acquire controlling interests in its portfolio companies, even together with other sponsoring investors. The firm holds its investment for approximately six years. Wingate Partners, LLP was founded in 1987 and is based in Dallas, Texas.