SJ Partners

SJ Partners focuses on control buyouts and growth investments in lower-middle-market companies across the United States. Target companies are typically founder-owned or family-operated businesses in the consumer, business services, and niche industrial sectors. The firm looks for enterprises with enterprise values between $25 million and $100 million and EBITDA typically from $3 million to $15 million at entry.

SJ Partners operates as a sector-oriented generalist, concentrating on three primary verticals: consumer products and services, specialized business services, and niche industrial manufacturing. Within these broad categories, the firm seeks asset-light business models with recurring revenue characteristics and identifiable add-on acquisition opportunities.

The firm structures transactions as majority-control acquisitions. SJ Partners seeks to be the first institutional capital partner for founder-led businesses, typically acquiring a controlling equity stake while structuring meaningful management rollover to align incentives post-close.

SJ Partners invests exclusively in United States-based companies. The firm has not publicly indicated an appetite for cross-border platform investments and sources deals domestically through intermediary relationships managed from its single office in New York.

The firm relies on a proprietary, relationship-driven sourcing model. Deal origination combines an intermediary network of investment bankers and brokers with direct outreach to founders and business owners who have not previously raised institutional capital. This approach targets off-market and limited-auction processes in the lower middle market.