Coastal Breeze Partners, a Boca Raton, FL-based center market non-public fairness agency, introduced that it has began operations.
The agency focuses on partnering with administration groups and sellers to construct center market companies. It additionally combines deep sector experience in industrial and enterprise providers sub sectors with a confirmed monitor document of worth creation.
The agency’s technique is targeted on making management investments into corporations with over $20M; in income and EBITDA of $4M to $20M, which are both household/founder owned or company carve-outs, within the following trade sectors:
- Important Enterprise Companies
- Supplies & Chemical substances
- Specialty Industrials
- Worth-Added Distribution
Based by Brian Urbanek and Matthias Gundlach, Coastal Breeze Companions is thesis pushed and differentiated via the execution of natural progress initiatives, operational transformation initiatives and strategic add-on acquisitions.
Gundlach has 25 years of investing, merger & acquisition and company finance expertise. He has accomplished over 30 transactions for companies throughout a number of jurisdictions, sectors and kinds. Previous to founding Coastal Breeze, Gundlach served as Managing Director at OpenGate Capital, a world lower-to-middle-market non-public fairness agency. As Head of OpenGate’s North American industrials funding workforce, he centered on transformational worth creation alternatives in chemical substances, substances, constructing merchandise, industrials and distribution. Previous to OpenGate, Gundlach was a Vice President at Solar European Companions, the London primarily based funding arm of Solar Capital Companions, a world non-public fairness agency centered on investing in decrease and center market corporations. Previous to Solar Capital, Gundlach labored in funding banking at Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt and at Deutsche Financial institution in London. As a part of a twin diploma Gundlach obtained a Grasp of Enterprise Administration from College of Pittsburgh, KATZ Graduate Faculty of Enterprise and a Grasp of Enterprise Administration from EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht.
Urbanek is co-founder of Coastal Breeze Companions and has over 25 years of investing, merger & acquisition and company finance expertise. Urbanek has accomplished over 40 transactions for companies throughout a number of industries, together with enterprise providers, industrial, client, retail, automotive & heavy-duty, monetary providers, packaging, chemical substances, and healthcare. His funding actions included management buyout transactions, in addition to non-control recapitalization transactions. Urbanek additionally accomplished ongoing work with portfolio corporations, together with the strategic planning, operational critiques, administration recruiting, financing and restructuring wants, add-on acquisitions and exit transactions. Previous to founding Costal Breeze, Urbanek was the co-founder and managing accomplice of Harbor Seaside Capital, the place he continues to actively handle two platform investments. Previous to founding Harbor Seaside Capital, Urbanek served as Managing Director at Solar Capital Companions, a world non-public fairness agency centered on investing in decrease and center market corporations. Previous to Solar Capital, he was a Vice President within the Company Finance group at Stephens, Inc. Previous to that, Urbanek served as a Vice President with the funding banking group at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., and as Supervisor of Company Improvement with AutoNation, Inc. Urbanek obtained a Bachelor of Science in Enterprise Administration, cum laude, with twin majors in Economics and Finance from Creighton College’s Heider School of Enterprise.
FinSMEs
25/04/2025
