WAYNE, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Guardian Capital Partners (“Guardian”), an operationally focused private equity firm focused on control-oriented investments in lower middle-market private companies, announced the acquisition of Team LINX (“LINX” or the “Company”) in partnership with the LINX executive management team who will continue to operate the Company.
Headquartered in Denver, CO, LINX (https://teamlinx.com/) provides technology infrastructure services for data center and mission-critical applications. The Company designs, integrates, installs, and maintains network, multimedia, wireless, and security system solutions nationwide. The Company is a key partner to mission critical data center customers, as well as a diverse range of clients and end markets including healthcare, financial services, education and others. Since inception in 2003 to date, LINX has successfully completed and delivered over 100,000 projects across all 50 states representing in excess of $1B in value.
Scott Evans, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Guardian, said, “Our acquisition of LINX represents another compelling opportunity for Guardian to invest in a business that is well positioned to capitalize on the attractive digital infrastructure sector, which we believe continues to benefit from the secular trend of data proliferation and required capacity to fuel core services and advanced computing applications such as artificial intelligence. We are excited to partner with Erik Isernhagen, Jay Dzialo, and the rest of the LINX team, leveraging our industry and operational experiences to support the Company in executing its dynamic growth plan.”
Erik Isernhagen, President & CEO of LINX, said, “We are eager to embark on this next phase of our journey and view Guardian as the ideal partner to support our continued development. Not only does Guardian bring deep sector expertise, but our firms share a collaborative culture and strategic vision primed for delivering continued investment and powerful results for our stakeholders.” Jay Dzialo, COO, added, “Guardian’s operational playbook enables us to take our well-developed capabilities to the next level as we support our customers and teams at scale.”
MidCap Financial provided financing in support of the transaction. Goodwin Procter LLP served as legal advisor to Guardian. Industria Partners acted as the strategic advisor to LINX and Arnold & Porter LLP provided legal counsel.
About Guardian Capital Partners
Guardian Capital Partners (www.guardiancp.com) is an operationally focused private equity firm based in suburban Philadelphia. Guardian makes control investments in lower middle market manufacturing, specialty business services, and consumer companies. Guardian partners with management teams to provide equity capital to fuel the growth of privately held businesses. Guardian believes the private equity experience and complementary skill sets of the Guardian team provide a unique combination of operating and finance capabilities resulting in certainty of execution and meaningful long-term value creation for its portfolio companies.
The executives of the Company were not compensated for their statements presented above. Their experiences may not be representative of all portfolio companies that Guardian clients have invested in. The views expressed reflect the opinions of the executives as of the date of their statements and may be subject to change. The views should not be construed as a recommendation or solicitation for Guardian’s investment advisory services.
Contacts
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Scott Evans
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Damien Gresko
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