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.

UNIQUE “HYBRID” EQUITY MODEL

  • Evergreen source of capital
  • Perpetual investment horizon
  • Interim liquidity options
  • People-centric operating philosophy
  • Business building through culture, M&A, and operations

Criteria

  • $1-20MM EBITDA (no minimum for add-ons) in North America and Europe
  • Professional services and highly engineered products, equipment, and consumables
  • Preference for founder and family-owned businesses
  • Controlling interest (51% or more)
  • Preference for controlling interest (51% or more)

Current Portfolio & Add-on Focus

Afinitas

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

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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

Cor Partners

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

Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute

​Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute
Helps clients select, develop, and retain high-performing team members who align with company values. Guided by a team of organizational psychologists and consultants, the team identifies current environment, gaps, and a tailored path forward rooted in human behavioral science.

CARR Biosystems

CARR Biosystems
Is a life science partner accelerating bioseparations to support the development and commercialization of advanced therapies.

Indiana
WalkerHughes Insurance

WalkerHughes
A privately held, founder-led retail insurance brokerage business headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Matter Family Office
Established in 1990, is an independent multi-family office dedicated to empowering UHNW families for long-term success.

Matter Family Office

Current New Platform Focus (Non-Exhaustive)

Highly-Engineered Products, Equipment & Consumables

  • FOOD PROCESSING EQUIPMENT
    Secondary and further processing equipment serving the protein, bakery, dairy, produce and dry food markets
  • LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
    Manufacturers of engineered laboratory equipment and related
    consumables for laboratory, vivarium, and research facilities
  • MATERIAL PROCESSING EQUIPMENT
    Engineered equipment for the processing of materials in infrastructure, recycling, and other end-markets

Professional Services

  • SPECIALTY INSURANCE DISTRIBUTION
    Wholesalers, managing general agents (MGAs), and managing general underwriters to the insurance industry
  • INVESTIGATION SERVICES
    Investigation service providers serving financial
    services, legal, and insurance clients
  • PROFESSIONAL ADVISORY SERVICES
    Accounting, tax, legal, and expert advisory services to personal and commercial clients

Steeger USA

Aug 11, 2023, 08:22 PM
Company : Steeger USA
Quotee name : Sean Hargett
Quotee job position : President & Former Owner
Joining the Forsyth Team continues to prove itself the right decision. Whether we have looked for support in our sales expansion, supply chain reviews, continuous improvement goals, or operations; Forsyth has brought shared ideas and synergies to the table.
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