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Cooper Investment Partners
Cooper Investment Partners is a private equity fund that makes control investments in companies undergoing significant change.
Cooper Investment Partners
Cooper Investment Partners is a private equity fund that makes control investments in companies undergoing significant change. The firm invests in companies with strong fundamentals facing ownership transitions, operational challenges, or capital structure issues. Cooper Investment Partners has made one investment, in Ventech Engineers, as part of a recapitalization on September 29, 2011.
General information
Firm type
Generalist
Year founded
—
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
Fairfield
Corporate office
Fairfield, CT, United States
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
What investment scenarios does Cooper Investment Partners target?
Cooper focuses on corporate divestitures, spin-offs, recapitalizations, and reorganizations. The firm pursues transactions where a parent company is selling a non-core business unit or where an over-leveraged entity requires rescue capital. Its deal sourcing typically sidesteps broad auction processes in favor of bilaterally negotiated, complexity-heavy situations, per the firm's stated strategy.
Does Cooper Investment Partners operate as a single-family office or a traditional asset manager?
Cooper is structured as an asset manager, not a single-family office. Public records do not tie it to a named family fortune or a multi-family office platform. Its mandate is generalist, sourced from external limited partners and proprietary capital, with no disclosed wealth-management or philanthropic arm.
How does Cooper Investment Partners source its deals?
The firm sources primarily through corporate relationships and restructuring intermediaries rather than broad investment bank-led auctions. Its focus on carve-outs and balance-sheet reorganizations means relationships with corporate development teams and turnaround advisors constitute the core origination channel.
Does the firm participate in fund commitments or only direct deals?
Based on its stated strategy encompassing divestitures, recapitalizations, and reorganizations, Cooper likely executes direct control and non-control investments, including private equity secondaries and special-situation credit. There is no public disclosure of a fund-of-funds program or commitments to third-party general partners.
What geographic and sector focus does Cooper maintain?
The firm is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, and its investment activity centers on North American middle-market companies. Sector focus spans industrial technology, business services, and manufacturing — industries where operational turnarounds and supply-chain reconfiguration present tangible value-creation levers.
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