Charlesbank Capital Partners

Charlesbank Capital Partners, LLC, established in 1998, is a private equity firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in New York. It manages approximately $2 billion in assets, focusing on the middle market. The firm invests in mature, privately held companies across various sectors, including communications, healthcare, consumer products, and industrials, among others. Charlesbank partners with management teams to acquire and build fundamentally strong businesses, typically investing between $20 million to $150 million per transaction in companies with enterprise values ranging from $50 million to $1.5 billion and EBITDA between $15 million and $75 million. The firm takes a board seat in its portfolio companies and aims to hold investments for five to seven years, exiting through IPOs, strategic sales, or sales to other private equity firms. Charlesbank prefers to take majority and minority stakes in companies.