MPE Partners

MPE Partners, established in 2012, is a private equity firm headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, with an additional office in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm specializes in lower middle market investments, focusing on leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and build-up strategies. MPE Partners primarily targets family and founder-owned businesses in high-value manufacturing and industrial services sectors across North America. Within manufacturing, the firm invests in aerospace and defense, energy and infrastructure, industrial, specialty chemicals, containers and packaging, and test and measurement. In industrial services, it focuses on aftermarket services, maintenance, repair and overhaul, distribution, and transportation and logistics. The firm typically invests in companies with EBITDA between $5 million and $20 million and enterprise values ranging from $25 million to $150 million, aiming to exit investments within a five to seven-year timeframe.