Starboard Capital Partners

Starboard targets control-oriented investments in lower-middle-market companies facing complex situations. Its mandate covers corporate carve-outs, management buyouts, distressed turnarounds, recapitalizations, and spin-offs. The firm structures investments to provide liquidity, growth capital, or ownership transitions while retaining operational control to drive post-close value creation.

Starboard operates in the complexity segment of the lower middle market, deliberately avoiding competitive auctions for plain-vanilla growth companies. It focuses on situations requiring operational restructuring, distressed dynamics, or corporate divestiture expertise—transaction types that demand specialized resources and judgment. The firm's value proposition rests on active management and strategic repositioning rather than financial engineering alone.