Littlejohn & Co., LLC is a private equity firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, that specializes in equity and debt investments in middle-market companies. Founded in 1996, the firm focuses on buyouts, turnarounds, and special situations, often targeting underperforming or distressed businesses that require financial restructuring or operational improvements. Littlejohn typically invests in companies with revenues between $100 million and $1 billion and enterprise values ranging from $100 million to $800 million. The firm prefers to take control equity positions, investing between $5 million and $250 million per transaction, while also considering minority stakes and debt securities. Its investment strategy encompasses a wide range of sectors, including industrials, automotive, chemicals, healthcare, and technology. Littlejohn's approach aims to create long-term value for its portfolio companies through active management and strategic change, with a holding period of four to five years. The firm primarily serves pooled investment vehicles and has a strong emphasis on creating sustainable success in its investments.
Valcourt Building Services is a premier provider for waterproofing, restoration, and window cleaning services. Valcourt works on commercial office buildings, high-rise residential buildings, parking garages, hospitality, and healthcare buildings. Services include concrete repair, caulking, pressure washing, façade restoration, leak repair, bird proofing, epoxy injections, fall-protection systems, and rooftop anchors. The company was founded in 1986 and has grown from a small window cleaning company serving the Washington, DC area into one of the largest exterior maintenance companies in the country. From our corporate offices we proudly serve clients in Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, and Texas.
Outcome Health LLC, founded in 2006 and based in Chicago, develops health intelligence technology solutions aimed at improving patient engagement and healthcare outcomes. The company's offerings include digital waiting room screens that provide educational health content, interactive tablets for personalized information during consultations, and digital anatomy boards to enhance provider-patient communication regarding conditions and treatments. Additionally, Outcome Health supports patient education on clinical trials and offers tools like infusion room tablets to improve the patient experience during treatments. The company has expanded its technology implementation in outpatient facilities and forged partnerships with global life sciences and medical device companies. After rebranding from ContextMedia Health in 2017, Outcome Health continues to innovate with products designed to facilitate informed healthcare decisions and enhance the quality of care, ultimately aiming to impact millions of patient visits annually.
API Heat Transfer is one of the largest full service producers of industrial heat exchangers and heat transfer systems in the world. Today API Heat Transfer operates from four modern manufacturing facilities located in the United States, Germany and China, and provides local sales and service to customers through their global sales network.
The Cook & Boardman Group, LLC is a privately owned architectural services and specialty distributor-subcontractor. We are the premier provider of architectural hardware, doors, door frames, and related building specialties for non-residential building applications throughout the US. Established in 1955, we have built a reputation through our many full service sales units as the “go to” supplier for point-of-entry products & services. Our primary customers are general contractors, design build contractors, commercial building owners, and national account customers. From hospitals to hospitality – from stadiums to schools – large work or small – we understand the unique needs of your construction project. We are active in all non-residential building sectors, can successfully complete work in many markets within the US, and when requested, outside the US.
Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC, established in 1989 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, provides specialized recruitment solutions across the United States. The company focuses on IT permanent placement and contract staffing services through its subsidiaries, including Seven Step RPO, Jobspring Partners, and Workbridge Associates. Motion Recruitment Partners aims to enhance talent acquisition by partnering with organizations to refine their hiring processes, ensuring they attract and retain top talent. With a commitment to improving the candidate experience, the company emphasizes the importance of making candidates feel valued throughout the recruitment process, from initial contact to the acceptance of job offers. By leveraging a unique team-based approach, Motion Recruitment Partners has built a reputation for successfully filling critical positions and transforming the way companies approach staffing challenges.
Their mission is to improve access to dentistry by providing the highest quality non-clinical practice services to some of the nation’s leading dental practices.
They do this by affiliating with top dentists throughout the country, while providing excellent support services that help dentists better manage and grow practices. With their in-depth understanding of what it takes to run a successful dental practice – they strive to provide strategic support and top-notch services allowing dentists to do what they do best – practice dentistry.
Strategic Materials, Inc. provides glass and plastic recycling services in North America. It engages in recycling glass bottles, window panes, and single-stream MRF glasses, as well as automobile products, such as side glasses and windshields. The company also processes, recycles, and markets ground glass products, such as abrasives, beads for reflective highway striping, and frictionators for bullets and matches, as well as grits for steel and aluminum mills, and dental products; and swimming pools, fire pits, fiber glass, landscaping products, aquariums, containers, matches, abrasives, highway beads, and ceramics. In addition, it offers cullet for container, ceramic, and fractionator industries; and materials to manufacture a range of products, including fiberglass insulation, food and beverage containers, reflective materials, and other consumer and industrial products. Strategic Materials, Inc. was formerly known as Allwaste Recycling, Inc. and changed its name to Strategic Materials, Inc. in April 1995 as a result of its acquisition by Equus Total Return, Inc. The company was founded in 1896 and is based in Houston, Texas. It has locations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Strategic Materials, Inc. is a former subsidiary of Allwaste, Inc.
Headquartered in Waggaman, LA, Cornerstone is a producer of a wide-range of intermediate chemicals, including acrylonitrile, melamine, sulfuric acid and other products to a diverse set of customers in high-growth end-markets. The Company operates a state of the art 800-acre chemical complex, located in the U.S. Gulf Coast with full transportation and logistics capabilities, long-term onsite partners and significant infrastructure for expansion. Cornerstone employs approximately 460 people across North America and Europe.
Maysteel LLC specializes in designing, engineering, and manufacturing custom, precision, OEM sheet metal enclosures, cabinets, and metal fabricated assemblies. Its product solutions are widely used in the self-service/vending, storage and computing, utility, industrial power generation and distribution industries, to name a few. Maysteel specializes in providing the lowest total product cost by employing design for manufacturability (DFM) solutions throughout the product life-cycle.
Maysteel was founded in 1936 and today has manufacturing locations in Allenton, Wisconsin and Monterrey, Mexico.
Total Safety U.S., Inc. is the leading global provider of integrated industrial safety services, strategies and equipment necessary to keep your workers, your facility and the environment safe. We not only deliver complete, cost-effective safety service solutions to our customers as promised and without compromise, but we have the resources and the support to back it up. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, with more than 134 locations worldwide in 18 countries, Total Safety has the people, programs and processes to deliver the industry's best industrial safety services and equipment tailored to your specific business needs.
Tidel is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of cash management systems and robbery deterrent products for the retail industry. They provide retail organizations best in class solutions that secure, automate, and streamline their cash management environment.
At Tidel, our goal is to create long-lasting customer partnerships by identifying their needs and providing solutions that support their success. They strive to deliver long term sustained growth through market leading innovation while providing the highest quality products in our industry.
As we look to the future, we will continue to create unprecedented value and opportunity for our customers, employees, investors, and partners by investing in the right technologies and innovations that help organizations protect and manage their cash environment, so they can focus on growing their business.
Brown Jordan International is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of quality home furnishings and contract furnishings, selling a full range of products. Brown Jordan International offers innovative designs, superior quality, efficient production methods and a strong portfolio of recognized brands including Brown Jordan, Winston, Casual Living, Charter, Lodging by Liberty, Wabash and Winston Contract. Brown Jordan International products include indoor and outdoor chairs, tables, sofas, and love seats for home and commercial use. Brown Jordan International serves consumers through a network sales representatives, specialty dealers, company showrooms and mass merchandisers and provides products to institutions in multiple markets including hospitality, government and multi-family housing. Brown Jordan International is privately held and its corporate office is located in St. Augustine, Florida. Brown Jordan International is vertically integrated with numerous manufacturing facilities and sales offices located both domestically and internationally throughout the United States, Mexico, China, India, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. All of the 1,700 employees throughout our six separate operating subsidiaries worldwide share a deep passion for excellence and an abiding commitment to our customers. Brown Jordan International’s products have always been and will always be synonymous with the best in quality and value.
IWAtech is a web agency that provides commercial clients with web applications. Its product portfolio includes Talenthouse and Tripbutler. IWAtech was founded in 2008 by Andreas Schietz. It is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Interior Specialists, Inc. Family of Companies (ISI) is the leading provider of interior design and installation services for the floorcovering industry, in addition to providing products and services for window coverings, countertops and cabinets. Established in 1982, ISI was formed to meet the rigorous demands of the new home builder and its homebuyers in San Diego, California. During the last 29 years, ISI and its family of companies have diversified its offerings and market coverage to include eight channels of business in seven western states. The ISI companies are Heritage Interiors, Interior Specialists, and SuperFloors. Through operational excellence, superior quality, integrity and a commitment to exceed its customer’s expectations every day, ISI and its family of companies have become a leader not only in services to the new home builder and its homebuyer, but a service leader also to custom home builders, property management companies, multi-family customers, the senior living industry, the commercial industry, government projects and student housing customers.
Headquartered in Tacoma, Washington, Northwest Hardwoods (“NWH” or the “Company”) is the world’s leading manufacturer and distributor of North American hardwood lumber and is recognized as the “Gold Standard” in its industry. NWH serves the repair and remodel, residential construction, consumer discretionary, industrial, and export markets. The Company converts hardwood logs into rough cut and kiln dried (“KD”) lumber, and then planes and sorts the lumber boards into an array of quality grades for appearance wood applications. The kiln drying process establishes consistent dimensional stability and improves the boards’ visual characteristics and finish. NWH is also one of North America’s largest importers of tropical hardwood lumber and hardwood plywood panels and operates a global distribution network to deliver a full complement of hardwood products to over 1,660 customers worldwide. NWH’s lumber is a primary material used in the manufacturing of a multitude of products including: kitchen cabinets, hardwood flooring, molding, millwork, commercial interiors, furniture, boat and recreational vehicle interiors, musical instruments, railroad ties, and pallets.
Newgistics (www.newgistics.com) combines industry-leading processes and technology, personalized service, and the unrivaled convenience of the USPS to offer the most comprehensive set of delivery and returns services available to residential shippers. The result is improved service, end-to-end visibility, reduced costs, and happier customers. They know shipping, backward and forward.
Synventive Molding Solutions is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of hot runner systems and hot runner components. With a focus on providing high quality products and value added services, Synventive delivers complete solutions for all types of injection molding applications. The company offers a wide choice of standard products and has the ability to produce fully customized hot runner systems on demand – all backed by a dedicated after-sales service team. Since the 1970s, Synventive and its predecessors have served customers in the automotive, electronics, telecommunications, packaging, medical and consumer/industrial markets. Today Synventive operates with manufacturing in Asia, Europe and North America and service and support operations in 26 countries.
KAG is North America's largest tank truck transporter and logistics provider, delivering fuel, chemicals, industrial gases, and food-grade products. The Company is the only independent fuels delivery carrier with a nationwide network with the ability to deliver to all 48 states of the continental United States and Mexico. In addition, KAG operates locations in Canada across Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories. To learn more about KAG's transportation and logistics service offerings, footprint, and asset base.
GE Superabrasives
Acquisition in 2003
GE Superabrasives a leading supplier of manufactured diamond, cubic boron nitride, and polycrystalline products.
Pameco
Acquisition in 2001
Pameco is one of the largest distributors of HVAC systems and equipment and refrigeration products in the United States, with predecessor corporations dating back to 1931. The Company stocks more than 65,000 SKUs to service more than 45,000 customers through a national network.