LNK Partners

David Landau serves as Managing Partner and leads day-to-day investment decisions. The firm was co-founded with Bruce Klatsky, the former CEO of Phillips-Van Heusen, and the late Henry Nasella, former chairman of Star Markets and an early Starbucks director. The founding group brought direct operating experience to the investment committee, and the firm continues to run a concentrated investment process driven by senior partners.

LNK does not raise traditional closed-end blind-pool funds from institutional limited partners. Instead, it draws committed capital from a small circle of high-net-worth individuals and family offices on a deal-by-deal or permanent-capital basis. This structure eliminates the standard 10-to-12-year fund life and gives LNK the flexibility to hold investments for much longer periods than a conventional buyout fund.

LNK focuses on consumer, retail, and healthcare services companies, typically with $50 million to $500 million in revenue. The firm writes equity checks ranging from $25 million to $100 million and pursues both control buyouts and significant minority growth-equity positions, often in family-owned or founder-led businesses.

LNK pursues both control buyouts and significant minority stakes. Its flexible permanent-capital structure allows the firm to tailor deal architecture to the specific needs of a founder or family owner rather than conforming to a fixed fund mandate. The firm has expressed a preference for influence at the board level regardless of ownership percentage.

Because LNK uses permanent capital rather than a committed fund with a fixed termination date, it can hold portfolio companies indefinitely. While typical private equity firms target 4-to-7-year holds, LNK has the structural capacity to own businesses for 15 years or more, aligning its timeline with the long-term value-creation goals of family-owned and founder-led companies.

LNK continues to invest out of its permanent capital base and actively evaluates platform opportunities in consumer, retail, and healthcare services. The firm's deal-by-deal capital-call structure means it does not operate on a publicized fund-vintage cycle, making its deployment pace observable only through completed transactions.

Headquartered in White Plains, New York, LNK invests primarily in companies based in the United States. Its portfolio has been concentrated in the eastern United States historically, though the firm does evaluate opportunities nationally within its target sectors of consumer, retail, and healthcare services.