Arch Equity Partners, LLC

What is Arch Equity Partners, LLC?

Arch Equity Partners, LLC is a private equity fund that concentrates on platform investments across the lower middle market, predominantly within the consumer, industrial, distribution, and services industries. With a focus on equity investment, the firm specializes in expansion, MBO/LBO, turnaround, recapitalization, restructuring, and corporate divestiture, among other investment strategies.

The expertise of Arch Equity Partners lies in their capability to partner with management teams, aiming to craft superior businesses via operational enhancements, sustainable growth strategies, and the establishment of professional management practices.

At the core of their investment philosophy, they cherish the collaboration with investors who are committed to a patient, longer-term capital horizon, which plays a critical role in their partnership with management teams. This collaboration extends to board representation and contributions to selected operational and strategic initiatives. Arch Equity Partners believes that the lower-middle market harbors a significant well of untapped potential, a segment familiar to its partners and investors who have extensive professional backgrounds as business owners, CEOs, as well as financial and operational advisers.

The guiding principles of Arch Equity Partners involve creating a combined dynamic with the management team and investors to infuse patient, long-term capital into companies for realizing their full value potential, focusing particularly on companies that have demonstrated their worth through what they refer to as the 'Darwin Effect'.

The firm's investment approach is built on three foundational elements: industry knowledge, company size, and value orientation, combined with active engagement from the AEP team.

Since its inception in 2008, Arch Equity Partners has made nine platform investments and pursued additional acquisitions through add-on activities, including seven companies. They have also expanded the operations of these companies through greenfield site efforts, some of which span internationally.

The firm is headquartered at 2381 Centerline Industrial Drive, St. Louis, Missouri.