KLH Capital

KLH Capital is pleased to receive the 2024 Founder-Friendly Investors award by Inc. Magazine. This award honors private equity firms with a proven track record of aligning with founder and entrepreneurial values to collaboratively solve succession challenges, support higher levels of achievement, and aid in building great businesses. In the end, every investment’s success rests on the people involved. This is why we seek and promote healthy relationships based on trust and respect, allowing us to leverage our partner’s strengths and complement their weaknesses to build value in the most efficient manner possible. Hear from one of KLH's past CEO Partners: https://lnkd.in/eFyjUgz2

We are excited to announce the successful sale of our portfolio company, Shenandoah Industrial Solutions!   Based in Pompano Beach, FL, Shenandoah is a leading provider of mandated, recurring stormwater and sanitary infrastructure inspection, cleaning, and CIPP trenchless rehabilitation solutions to both the public and private sectors in the Southeastern United States.   To learn more about this acquisition, check out our latest press release. https://lnkd.in/eefV99fT

Case Study Spotlight: Atchafalaya Measurement, Inc. KLH Capital is proud to highlight our management buyout (MBO) of Atchafalaya Measurement, Inc. (AMI), based in Scott, LA. This success story exemplifies our commitment to empowering management teams and facilitating their journey from operators to owners. Watch the case study: https://lnkd.in/euab-XWq

Congratulations to Al Melchiorre & the MelCap Partners team! We are thankful for the great work you guys are doing as we continue to seek to work with industrial service and distribution companies as they look to facilitate management buyouts, shareholder buyouts, and significant liquidity events.

NEW DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT: KLH Capital is excited to announce that our portfolio company, Thorpe Specialty Services, has acquired Walburn Industrial Services, LLC. Thorpe Specialty Services is a leading maintenance and engineering services and solutions provider for corrosion, refractory, and scaffolding & insulation. The acquisition of Walburn provides expansion within a strategic geographic market segment, further diversifies Thorpe’s customer base, and adds capacity to Thorpe’s field crews to service its customers’ growing demand. To learn more about this acquisition, check out our latest press release: https://lnkd.in/e_GCNS4A

We are thrilled to announce a record year for KLH Capital consisting of multiple firm-wide milestones, shared with you below (and on our website)!  Despite a challenging broad economic environment, our industrials investment focus (service and distribution) has continued to allow for strong and successful activity across every facet of the firm, and we appreciate all that we were able to accomplish together in 2023.   Best wishes for continued momentum in 2024!   The KLH Capital Team

We are excited to announce that we have partnered with the management team of Marek Sawing & Drilling, LLC to complete a recapitalization of the business! Based in Houston, TX, and established in 2005, Marek is a niche provider of specialty concrete sawing & drilling, ground penetrating radar, and select placement services to the commercial, medical, industrial, transportation, highway & civil, and sports & entertainment end markets within the United States. The partnership with KLH enables the Company and its management to accelerate organic growth, explore additional service offerings, and enter new geographic service areas throughout the US. To learn more, read this press release. 

We are excited to announce that we have partnered with the management team of Selinsky FORCE to complete a management buyout of the Company!   Based in Canton, OH, Selinsky is a leading provider of critical preventative, planned, and emergency industrial maintenance services, piping and refractory solutions, steel erection, and other turnkey solutions for its customers within the engineered materials, industrial manufacturing, power, recycling, civil construction, and other industrial end markets. The Company enjoys reoccurring, critical maintenance demand with a nested presence in customer facilities, where arduous production and manufacturing processes drive a perpetual need for maintenance, repair, and overhaul work.