Lincolnshire Management
Lincolnshire Management, Inc. is a private equity firm founded in 1986 and headquartered in New York. It describes a control-oriented investment model supporting founders, families, and management teams across business and industrial services, niche manufacturing, and consumer goods and services.
What stands out about Lincolnshire Management
Lincolnshire Management publicly describes control investments in private companies, with a stated target-company annual revenue range of $100-$750 million. Its model includes founder and family company investments, corporate carve-outs, recapitalizations, management buyouts, growth equity, and add-on acquisitions.[1][2][3][5]
What does Lincolnshire Management invest in?
Lincolnshire Management, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered at 780 Third Avenue, 40th Floor, New York, NY 10017. The firm describes a private equity model centered on control investments in private companies, recapitalizations, corporate divestitures, management buyouts, and growth equity investments for public and private companies.
Lincolnshire states that it targets companies with annual revenue in the $100-$750 million range. It also reports $1.9+ billion of private equity funds under management and 110+ acquisitions completed to date.[1]
Lincolnshire focuses on investing in and supporting founders and operators of family-owned companies and aligning with founders, families, and management teams to accelerate business growth.
The firm describes its value-creation approach as identifying underlying value, assessing business fundamentals, and applying tailored execution through a dedicated originations team and a fully staffed in-house operations team.[2][3]
Owners evaluating a financial buyer can compare the offer with independent valuation analysis, understand how acquirers approach transactions through Auxo’s buy-side M&A process guide, and consider whether a full or partial sale best fits their objectives.
Published criteria: Lincolnshire Management states that it targets companies with annual revenue in the $100-$750 million range. The firm also reports $1.9+ billion of private equity funds under management and 110+ acquisitions completed to date.[1]
What should a business owner evaluate before considering a transaction with Lincolnshire Management?
Owners evaluating Lincolnshire should assess how the firm’s control-investment model would apply to their ownership structure and transaction objectives. The stated model includes founder- and family-owned companies, corporate divestitures, recapitalizations, management buyouts, growth equity, and add-on acquisitions.
Owners should also confirm how the $100-$750 million annual-revenue range applies to the relevant strategy or transaction type, and should request specific information about expected ownership horizon, exit planning, and transaction economics because the cited official homepage does not state a universal holding-period range or standard exit timetable and the cited Latite Roofing sale release does not disclose financial terms.[1][5]
Would the proposed transaction be structured as a control investment, or does Lincolnshire consider another ownership structure for the relevant situation
How does the stated $100-$750 million annual-revenue range apply to the relevant strategy and transaction type
What ownership horizon and exit planning would apply to a new investment
What companies does Lincolnshire Management target?
Lincolnshire states that it targets companies with annual revenue in the $100-$750 million range. The public statement identifies a revenue range but does not, by itself, specify how that range applies across every strategy or transaction type.[1]
Lincolnshire states that its experience is concentrated primarily in business and industrial services, niche manufacturing, and consumer goods and services.[2]
Lincolnshire is headquartered in New York and has a satellite office in Chicago. Its official portfolio includes Desch Plantpak, a European investment headquartered in the Netherlands that serves growers and distributors across continental Europe and the U.K.[3][4]
Lincolnshire’s public model includes platform investments and add-on acquisitions. On July 20, 2022, the firm announced three add-on transactions in three days: Barrier Companies acquired Fire Door Solutions and United Fire Door Inspection, while True Temper Sports acquired 44 Pro Gloves.
Lincolnshire also completed the acquisition of Banker Wire, which its official release described as the sixth platform investment in Lincolnshire Equity Fund V.[4][6]
The official portfolio identifies Banker Wire, Remedi8, Abbiamo, U.S. Auto Supply, CrossCom, Powerhouse, TRUE Sports, and Desch Plantpak as representative investments.
The cited portfolio page lists representative investments with fund associations and business descriptions but does not publish transaction values or acquisition dates for those representative entries.[2]
On January 30, 2025, Lincolnshire announced that it had closed on the sale of Latite Roofing. The cited sale release states that financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
Other public transaction examples include the July 2022 add-on announcements involving Barrier Companies and True Temper Sports, as well as the completed acquisition of Banker Wire.[4][5][6]
What is not clear from Lincolnshire Management's public investment criteria?
The cited Latite Roofing sale release states that financial terms of that private transaction were not disclosed. The cited portfolio page lists representative investments with fund associations and business descriptions but does not publish transaction values or acquisition dates for those entries.
The cited official homepage publishes a target-company annual-revenue range but does not state a universal investment holding-period range or standard exit timetable.[1][2][5]
Questions to ask when evaluating Lincolnshire Management as a buyer or investment partner
Would the proposed transaction be structured as a control investment, or does Lincolnshire consider another ownership structure for the relevant situation?
How does the stated $100-$750 million annual-revenue range apply to the relevant strategy and transaction type?
What ownership horizon and exit planning would apply to a new investment?
Which transaction terms and consideration components would be available for the proposed transaction?
Sources & research notes
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- Transaction / portfolio evidence
- SEC filing / regulatory record
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