CIVC Partners

CIVC Partners is a private equity firm, based in Chicago, focused on middle market buyout, recapitalization, and growth equity investments in industry sectors where our firm can combine its experience, resource network and insight to provide flexible capital for portfolio companies and investors. The firm partners with founders and management teams, investing equity capital alongside management to help accelerate businesses through their next phase of growth.

CIVC was founded in 1970, and our current investment strategy and the core of our management team have been in place since 1989, investing almost $2.4 billion of capital in 82 platform companies since then. Across seven funds, CIVC Partners has invested exclusively in middle-market companies. The firm has completed more than 200 acquisitions, including both platform companies and strategic add-on companies.

In this time span, CIVC has actively and consistently invested in the Business Services vertical. This focus area offers CIVC investment opportunities across numerous attractive, high growth niches. We believe this focused approach has led to our strong results by creating advantages in selecting and working with portfolio companies to achieve our collective strategic and financial goals. The firm's partners have worked together for an average of 20 years. CIVC Partners describes its approach as combining sector expertise with a partnership mentality and emphasizes scaling middle-market service businesses.