Investment Profile

BUILDING GREAT BUSINESSES THROUGH PEOPLE

BW Forsyth Partners (Forsyth) is a St. Louis-based investment firm with a perpetual investment horizon and permanent capital base. Forsyth focuses on acquiring and building enduring businesses through a people-centric approach to culture, programmatic acquisitions and operational strategy deployment.

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Business Models

Highly-engineered products and equipment
Consumables and associated services
Professional services

Criteria

$1-20 MM EBITDA (no minimum for add-ons)
North America and Europe
Preference for founder and family-owned businesses
Controlling interest (51% or more)

Current Portfolio & Add-on Focus

Afinitas
Equipment, products and services to underground (pipes, sewers) and above ground (bridges, roads, tunnels, buildings) infrastructure applications

Cor Partners
Insurance services for the Property and Casualty market, including loss adjusting and TPA services, forensic consulting and expert/technical advisory services and other post-loss outsourcing solutions

Machine Solutions, Inc.
Process automation equipment and design services for medical device manufacturers; Full-scale automation and integration systems serving the broader life science industry

Current New Platform Focus (Non-Exhaustive)

Highly-Engineered Products, Equipment & Consumables

AIR PURIFICATION EQUIPMENT
Industrial air purification equipment (filtration, ionization or other technologies)
FOOD PROCESSING EQUIPMENT
Secondary and further processing equipment serving the protein, bakery, dairy, produce and dry food markets
FLOW CONTROL EQUIPMENT
Engineered valves that control the flow and pressure of liquids, gases, slurries and products within systems across a variety of end-markets
HEALTHCARE & LIFE SCIENCE PRODUCTS
One time use products for healthcare (e.g., CMOs) and life science applications (e.g., reagents)
WATER TREATMENT EQUIPMENT
Water and wastewater treatment equipment products and services for the industrial, municipal and recreational end-markets
HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT
Manufacturers of engineered healthcare equipment across a variety of end-markets (orthopedic, respiratory, cardio, and others)

Professional Services

CIVIL/STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING SERVICES
Infrastructure engineering/consulting for transportation, water, utilities, environmental and community infrastructure
INSURANCE SERVICES
Managing general agents (MGAs), managing general underwriters (MGU), warranty (home, auto, other) and claims management (property and casualty, workers compensation) services to the insurance industry
DISPUTE RESOLUTION SERVICES
Consulting groups providing legal, arbitration and dispute resolution services
LAB TESTING SERVICES
Local labs providing test, inspection, certification and compliance services to food and beverage, life sciences, consumer and industrial end-markets

New Hampton Metal Fabrication

Aug 11, 2023, 08:21 PM

Company : New Hampton Metal Fabrication

Quotee name : Jamie Wegner

Quotee job position : President & Former Owner

I’ve been truly impressed by how Forsyth understands how family businesses function. It truly has been a pleasure working with the team. Their long-term focus, strategy and commitment to develop people, are the biggest reasons I made the decision to partner with them.