GHK Capital Partners

Gilbert Klemann, the founder and Managing Partner, leads all investment decisions. He previously ran the Industrials group for Goldman Sachs' Merchant Banking Division during a 19-year tenure there. The firm's boutique structure suggests Klemann personally drives sourcing, diligence, and deal execution.

GHK targets lower-middle-market companies with EBITDA in the $5 million to $20 million range. This band captures founder-owned businesses approaching succession transitions and corporate carve-outs where the parent is divesting a non-core division, both areas where the firm's relationship-driven model is designed to operate.

GHK is structured as a traditional private equity manager, not a family office. It raises external limited-partner capital to fund buyout and growth-equity investments in North American industrials, manufacturing, and business-services companies.

GHK pursues control buyouts, growth-equity investments, and corporate carve-outs. The firm focuses on situations where an operational transition is already underway — founder retirements, divisional spin-offs, and recapitalizations of under-managed manufacturing businesses across the US.

Klemann's deal flow relies heavily on the relationship network built during his Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking career, where he covered industrial companies across North America. GHK prioritizes negotiated, off-market transactions — succession deals and proprietary corporate-divestiture dialogues — over competitive auction processes.