Solace Capital Partners

Investment decisions are led by Managing Partners Christopher S. Brothers, CFA, and Brett G. Wyard. The firm's website also lists Managing Directors Chris Aye and Andrew J. Morris, CFA, as senior investment professionals. The managing partners average over 30 years of experience each, providing continuity across a network built over three decades.

Solace relies on a far-reaching network cultivated over 30 years of direct middle-market investing. The firm states this network allows it to construct portfolios with limited overlap relative to other managers. Sourcing often involves complex situations — corporate divestitures, restructurings, and family-held recapitalizations — where pre-existing relationships and operational expertise are as important as the financial terms.

Solace participates in buyouts, growth equity, recapitalizations, reorganizations, turnarounds, spin-offs, and co-investments. The firm does not operate as a fund-of-funds; it pursues direct control and structured minority positions in individual middle-market companies.

Solace targets middle-market companies with $50 million to $1 billion in revenue. The firm writes equity checks between $20 million and $100 million. Investments are concentrated in businesses that are cash-flow-positive and exhibit a degree of differentiation in their sector or transaction structure.

The firm discloses no separate philanthropic foundations, real-asset arms, or operating businesses. Solace appears to operate solely as a private equity manager deploying a single strategy through its El Segundo office.

Solace includes co-investment as one of its stated strategy types. The firm’s flexible capital approach suggests it will partner selectively when an opportunity or relationship calls for shared participation, but the firm does not disclose a formal co-investment program or list of frequent co-investors.

The firm lists its headquarters at 2121 Rosecrans Avenue in El Segundo, California — a location consistent with many private capital firms in the South Bay area that prioritize proximity to Los Angeles International Airport and a concentration of aerospace and industrial businesses. Solace has not publicly commented on the rationale for the specific address.