MPE Partners

MPE Partners is a private equity investment firm founded in 2012 and based in Cleveland, Ohio, with an additional office in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm specializes in lower middle market leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and build-up investments, primarily targeting entrepreneur- and family-owned businesses as well as corporate divestitures. MPE Partners concentrates its investments in high-value manufacturing and commercial and industrial services sectors, including aerospace and defense, energy and infrastructure, specialty chemicals, and various industrial services. The firm typically invests in companies with an EBITDA between $5 million and $20 million and an enterprise value ranging from $25 million to $150 million, with a preference for equity investments up to $250 million. MPE Partners focuses its investment activities in North America for platform companies while pursuing global opportunities for add-on acquisitions, generally aiming for exits within a five to seven-year timeframe.