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Huron Capital Partners Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Building Premier Companies in Partnership with Leading Executives
Team celebrates quarter-century of success and looks forward to continuing its leadership into the next decade
DETROIT – Huron Capital Partners, LLC (“Huron”), a leading lower middle-market private equity firm, is proud to announce its 25th anniversary. Founded in Detroit in 1999, Huron has acquired more than 275 companies through six control investment funds over the past 25 years, managing over $2 billion in capital on behalf of a diversified global investor base, including public and private pension funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, consultants and family offices.
Throughout the last quarter-century, Huron Founding Partners Brian Demkowicz, Pete Mogk, and Mike Beauregard have built a leading PE franchise in the lower-middle-market, led by an outstanding investment team that has successfully invested across multiple market cycles. In recognition of its achievements, during the past year Huron has been recognized as one of the top Founder-Friendly Investors by Inc. Magazine and ranked as one of the top 50 investment firms by Bauer Rock Media Group / Grady Campbell.
“I am extremely proud of our team and persistent success over the past 25 years as our sector experience and resources have deepened. Since inception, we have been passionate about partnering with exceptional management teams to build premier businesses with the goal of delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns,” said Brian Demkowicz, Chairman and Founding Partner at Huron. “We are deeply honored by the strong support of our long-standing investors over these 25 years and appreciative of the confidence they have entrusted in us. Above all, we are grateful for our exceptional investment staff, management teams and Operating Partners that provide the foundation for strong value creation within our portfolio companies.”
As part of its succession strategy in 2021, Huron began the process of elevating its current leadership team as part of a multi-year plan designed to provide a strong foundation for continued success. Huron is currently led by Managing Partner Jim Mahoney who has led numerous successful investments for the firm since 2007 and served on over a dozen Huron portfolio company boards. The Founding Partners are active on Huron’s investment committees and remain deeply committed to maximizing equity value for Huron’s investors. The team manages several active flagship funds as well as our critical services strategy, which combines our successful buy-and-build ExecFactor® approach with our demonstrated historical track record of investing in businesses providing mission-critical services in the facility, infrastructure, and residential services sectors where we have deep experience, established playbooks, and a long history of partnering with exceptional CEOs to build premier companies in the services industry. We believe our sector-focused approach will strengthen our ability to capitalize on current secular tailwinds and further position us for continued success in our core markets.
“I believe Huron’s senior leadership team is well-positioned to deliver strong returns and build upon our successful legacy as we pursue our next phase of growth and prosperity,” said Huron Managing Partner Jim Mahoney. “Our success continues to be driven by our focus on two of our long-standing core tenets: ExecFactor® programs and mission-critical services sector expertise, and our deal pipeline is strong in these core areas.”
About Huron Capital Partners
Huron Capital is a leading lower middle-market private equity firm focused on partnering with outstanding management teams to build leading service companies. Through HCP Services, we bring a people-first and thematic approach to investing in mission-critical service companies in the infrastructure, facility and residential sectors where we have a long history of success, proven playbooks and extensive resources. We seek to make control investments in leading service businesses with $20 million to $200 million in revenue.
With our operational resources, we empower our management partners to drive significant growth through initiatives such as professionalizing operations, improving service offerings, executing M&A strategies, and accessing new markets. We pride ourselves on an unwavering commitment to candor, trust, accountability, and transparency in our relationships with management teams, investors, advisors, and employees.
Founded in Detroit in 1999, over the past 25 years we have acquired more than 275 companies through six control investment funds, managing over $2 billion in capital on behalf of a global institutional investor base. Through our proprietary ExecFactor® program, we utilize a proactive, thesis-driven investment process to identify the best potential management teams and investment opportunities in our core sectors.
For more information, please visit our website at www.huroncapital.com.
About ExecFactor®
ExecFactor® is Huron Capital’s proprietary, thematic investment strategy where we underwrite an industry and partner with an executive to deploy our buy-and-build investment model. This strategy brings together our sector focus, deep industry relationships, committed capital and repeatable buy-and-build approach to create a new platform investment.
Recently closed ExecFactor® investments include Criticore, a provider of mission-critical, highly technical electrical services, ExperiGreen, a residential lawn care services provider and Exigent, a provider of critical HVAC, plumbing, and other mechanical system repair, maintenance, and replacement services to complex facility operations for healthcare, education, industrial, government, and other commercial customers.
Recently exited ExecFactor® investments include Sciens Building Solutions, a prominent full-service commercial fire and life safety company and Pueblo Mechanical & Controls, a premier commercial HVAC and plumbing services company.
Disclaimers
Past performance is not indicative of future results and there can be no assurance that Huron will be able to adhere to any operational timeline or initiatives with respect to any investment, or that Huron’s operational playbook will yield positive results.
The List of Founder-Friendly Investors was created by Inc. and was based on references shared by Huron in July 2023. The full extent of the scope of firms considered for this award is unknown. There was no compensation paid for winning the award and Inc. is not affiliated with Huron nor an investor in an investment vehicle sponsored by Huron. There can be no assurance that other firms or surveys would reach the same conclusion regarding Huron.
Grady Campbell’s Top 50 PE Firms in the Middle Market award is a program designed by Grady Campbell. Small to mid-sized private equity firms are eligible to apply. Winning firms are selected based upon their volume of investment activity, firm policies and references from intermediaries, founders and advisors. Huron is not aware of the number of advisers surveyed for the award and did not pay a fee to be considered for this award. This award is not to be construed as indicative of Huron’s future performance.
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