Total Committed Capital $335,000,000
October 2005
 

 

 

General Wholesale Distributors, L.L.C.
Greenville, SC
www.gwd-ac.com

Subordinated Debt: $10,000,000 | Preferred Stock: $4,000,000 | Date: 12/05 | Leveraged Buyout

General Wholesale Distributors, L.L.C., is the exclusive distributor of Trane HVAC systems for residential and light commercial applications within the state of South Carolina. The Company distributes HVAC systems and parts to hundreds of dealers/installers throughout the state.

 
   
   

Tensator, Inc.
Bay Shore, NY
www.tensator.co.uk
www.lawrencemetal.com

Subordinated Debt: $9,000,000 | Senior Term B Debt: $4,000,000 | Date: 2/06 | Strategic Acquisition

Tensator is a UK-based designer and manufacturer of flexible queue management products used to manage customer flow for retail, entertainment, transportation, and other venues. Tensator also owns Lawrence Metal Products, Inc., the largest U.S. provider of queue management products. Together, the Companies are believed to be the largest global providers of such products.

 
   
   

TriStar Global Energy Solutions, Inc.
Houston, TX
www.tristarpetroserv.com

Subordinated Debt: $8,000,000 | Date: 2/06 | Strategic Acquisition

TriStar Global Energy Solutions, Inc. provides tank cleaning and related services to the US oil refinery, pipeline and power generation industries. In addition, its affiliate ULI, formulates, markets and applies specialty chemicals used in the decontamination, degassing and cleaning of vessels and process units in oil refining, power generation, and chemical processing plants.

 
   
   

ES3, Inc.
Rochester Hills, MI
www.e-s3.com

Subordinated Debt: $5,000,000 | Date: 2/06 | Management Buyout

ES3, Inc. specializes in developing creative programs and curriculum used by automotive and transportation OEMs to launch new products primarily to their retail sales forces. In addition, ES3 develops creative programs and training materials used to educate and inform automotive sales and service teams on existing OEM products.

 
   
   

Floratine Products Group, Inc.
Collierville, TN
www.floratine.com

Subordinated Debt: $4,750,000 | Date: 2/06 | Management Buyout
Subordinated Debt: $3,750,000 | Preferred Stock: $3,000,000 | Common Stock $750,000
Date: 9/07 | Second Round Management Buyout

Floratine Products Group, Inc. manufactures and distributes proprietary foliar biostimulants, nutrients, and soil amendments primarily used to manage turfgrass on golf courses and in professional sports stadiums.

 
   
   

Etransmedia Technology, Inc.
Troy, NY
www.etransmedia.com

Subordinated Debt: $3,000,000 | Date: 6/06 | Growth Capital
Subordinated Debt: $5,000,000 | Date: 9/08 | Strategic Acquisitions

Etransmedia provides medical transcription and medical revenue cycle management services to 150 small to medium sized physician’s practices primarily in the Mid-Atlantic States.

 
   
     

Haskell Jewels, L.L.C.
New York, NY

Subordinated Debt: $17,000,000 | Date: 10/06 | Recapitalization and Growth Capital

Haskell Jewels, L.L.C. is a leading designer, marketer and distributor of costume jewelry. Founded in 1926 by Miriam Haskell, the Company sells to a wide range of retailers and its brands include M. Haskell, Miriam Haskell and Emylee as well as licensed products sold under the J. Lo, Betsey Johnson and Christopher Radko brands.

 
   
   

KMOJ Acquisition, L.L.C. / Trans-Cycle Industries, Inc. / TCI, Inc.
Pell City, AL
www.tci-pcb.com

Subordinated Debt: $5,800,000 | Date: 12/06 | Leveraged Buyout

Trans-Cycle specializes in recycling, refurbishing and disposing of transformers and other oil-filled electrical equipment, including PCB-contaminated components. The Company generates its revenue by assessing fees for safe disposal of oil-filled electrical equipment and the sale of recovered materials such as copper, steel and other valuable metals. The Company is one of only a handful of firms in the U.S.A. qualified to dispose of PCB-laden components.

 
   
   

TPG Mt. Vernon Marine, L.L.C.
Mt. Vernon, IN

Subordinated Debt: $4,500,000 | Date: 1/07 | Leveraged Buyout

TPG Mt. Vernon Marine, L.L.C. is an inland-waterway harbour-services business which provides various services to barge and dock owners. The Company’s primary business is providing boat services which principally include moving barges from one point to another, such as to and from docks and barge fleets. Long-haul tug boat operators that push up to 30 barges at a time use the Company to remove or add barges from their loads at the Mt. Vernon, IN river port. The Company also provides a variety of repair and maintenance services to barge owners.

 
   
   

E-Mon, L.L.C.
Langhorne, PA
www.emon.com

Subordinated Debt: $4,000,000 | Date: 2/07 | Leveraged Buyout

E-Mon, L.L.C. is the market leader in the design and manufacture of electrical utility submeters and related energy management systems. The Company’s products are ideally suited to monitor energy use within a multi-tenant building or group of buildings such as office towers and apartment complexes. The Company also offers complete energy management solutions, including software packages that allow building managers to optimize their energy usage, and provide better and more detailed billing information to their tenants.

 
   
   

Cass Polymers, Inc.
Oklahoma City, OK
www.casspolymers.com

Subordinated Debt: $6,500,000 | Preferred Stock: $4,000,000 | Common Stock: $1,960,000
Date: 4/07 | Leveraged Buyout
Subordinated Debt: $3,000,000 | Date: 5/10 | Strategic Acquisition

Cass Polymers, Inc. is a specialty chemical manufacturing company that produces several lines of commercial, industrial and military floor coatings as well as a line of resins, adhesives and fillers for the automotive, yachting and industrial tooling markets.

 
   
   

DMW Wordwide, L.L.C.
Wayne, PA
www.dmwdirect.com

Subordinated Debt: $8,500,000 | Date: 6/07 | Recapitalization

DMW Worldwide, L.L.C. is a full-service, direct-response, marketing agency. The Company’s clients include insurers, not-for-profit companies, and public television stations. The Company designs custom direct marketing programs to acquire, support and retain customers. The Company offers a complete turnkey approach to direct marketing, including creative, graphical, execution, quality assurance, customer maintenance, enrollment and many other services.

 
   
   

Stampede Presentation Products, Inc.
Amherst, NY
www.stampede-usa.com

Subordinated Debt: $6,500,000 | Date: 7/07 | Recapitalization
Subordinated Debt: $700,000 | Date: 3/11 | Strategic Acquisition

Stampede Presentation Products, Inc. is a specialty distributor of display technology products including projectors, thin displays (plasma & LCD), and related accessory products (i.e. mounts, screens, cables, speakers, etc.). The Company serves as a “demand aggregator” for smaller electronics companies, providing access to the industries newest and highest functionality projectors and displays. The Company’s customers include a myriad of professional audio/visual resellers, dealers and installers, most of which specialize in a particular market segment like education, churches, board rooms, etc.

 
   
   

Rowley Company, L.L.C.
Gastonia, NC
www.rowleyco.com

Subordinated Debt: $4,000,000 | Preferred Stock: $1,000,000 | Date: 8/07 | Leveraged Buyout

Rowley Company, L.L.C. is a distributor of products, tools and fasteners used in the making and installation of window treatments, quilting, pillows, and upholstery products. The Company’s products are sold to custom fabricators and professional installers nationwide and in 50 countries.

 
   
   

Unitech Composites, Inc.
Hayden, ID
www.unitechcomp.com

Subordinated Debt: $4,750,000 | Common Stock: $250,000 | Date: 12/07 | Leveraged Buyout
Subordinated Debt: $3,050,000 | Preferred Stock: $450,000 | Date: 4/09 | Strategic Acquisition

Unitech Composites, Inc. manufactures composite aero-structures to the commercial and military aircraft industries and also produces rail car shipping containers used in the transport of Space Shuttle solid rocket booster engines. The Company supplies aircraft ducting, interior panels, ballistic materials, air filtration systems, fracture critical structural carbon fiber parts, and many other components that are used on dozens of aircraft.

 
   
   

Crimson Trace Corporation
Wilsonville, OR
www.crimsontrace.com

Subordinated Debt: $6,000,000 | Preferred Stock: $4,900,000 | Date: 12/07 | Recapitalization and Redemption of Minority Shareholders

Crimson Trace Corporation is the world leader in design and manufacturing of laser sights for firearms, and is the only company that offers grip-integrated laser sights for guns. The Company has a multi-patented system that builds the laser, power source and activation switch directly into the handgrip.

 
   
   

Southland Sanitation, Inc.
Gaston, SC

Subordinated Debt: $6,000,000 | Preferred Stock: $4,000,000 | Date: 2/08 | Leveraged Buyout

Southland Sanitation, Inc. is a residential, commercial and industrial/construction waste hauler, operating in the Columbia, S.C. vicinity.

 
   
   

Uniflight, L.L.C.
Grand Prairie, TX
www.uniflight.com

Subordinated Debt: $4,000,000 | Preferred Stock: $1,000,000 | Date: 3/08 | Leveraged Buyout

Uniflight, L.L.C. is a full service provider of maintenance services for helicopters, offering overhaul, repair and replacement parts for principally Bell Helicopters.

 
   
   

Primary Physicians Research
Pittsburgh, PA
www.pprresearch.com

Subordinated Debt: $5,000,000 | Date: 4/08 | Leveraged Buyout

Primary Physicians Research is an investigative medical research site conducting clinical trials for the pharmaceutical industry with a focus on vaccines. The Company is responsible for recruiting patients, dispensing a trial drug or placebo to the patient, and collecting patient data during the course of the investigation.

 
   
   

ClingZ, Inc.
Rio Rancho, NM
www.clingz.com

Subordinated Debt: $5,000,000 | Preferred Stock: $1,000,000 | Date: 5/08 | Leveraged Buyout

ClingZ, Inc. is a manufacturer of electrostatic, printable films. These films are distributed to specialty printers which use the material in myriad printing applications such as: pharmaceutical educational posters, retail displays, post cards, and magazine inserts. The Company’s products are manufactured using multiple patented and proprietary processes that give them unique physical properties, most notably an electrostatic charge which allows all their products to cling to almost any flat, clean, surface.

 
   
   

WatchGuard Video
Plano, TX
www.watchguardvideo.com

Subordinated Debt: $3,500,000 | Preferred Stock: $3,000,000 | Date: 6/08 | Growth Capital and Partial Shareholder Redemption

WatchGuard Video is a technological leader in the design and manufacture of in-car audio/visual equipment for law enforcement used to record critical events for later playback. The Company was the first to provide an in-car video system that records directly onto re-writable DVD-Video discs, allowing for easy storage and transfer of event video.

 
   
   

Tattoo Manufacturing
Tucson, AZ
www.tattoosales.com

Subordinated Debt: $11,700,000 | Preferred Stock: $2,000,000 | Date: 12/08 | Leveraged Buyout

Tattoo Manufacturing is the world’s largest producer of temporary tattoos which are used in a wide variety of corporate promotional and consumer applications. The Company’s tattoos are sold under a variety of brands and through multiple distribution channels, including specialty advertising distributors, on-line merchants, and mass merchant and specialty retailers.

 
   
 

 

Kool Holdings, L.L.C.
Gardena, CA
www.americancondenser.com/company.php
www.american-coil.com

Subordinated Debt: $10,000,000 | Preferred Stock: $5,000,000 | Date: 12/08 | Leveraged Buyout

Kool Holdings, L.L.C. is a holding company comprised of American Condensers, a leading manufacturer and distributor of automotive aftermarket air conditioning condensers, and American Coil, a distributor of coils and condensers used in various commercial cooling and refrigeration applications.

 
   
   

Wisconsin Pharmacal Company, L.L.C.
Jackson, WI
www.pharmacalway.com

Subordinated Debt: $7,000,000 | Date: 1/09 | Recapitalization
Subordinated Debt: $2,000,000 | Date: 2/11 | Strategic Acquisition

Wisconsin Pharmacal Co., L.L.C. is a manufacturer and distributor of niche consumer products to the outdoor recreation and over-the-counter female health and hygiene markets that are sold mostly through drug store chains as either branded or private label products.

 
   
   

Aerospace Manufacturing Group, Inc.
Southern, CA

Subordinated Debt: $10,000,000 | Preferred/Common Stock: $4,000,000 | Date: 3/09 | Leveraged Buyout

Subordinated Debt: $19,000,000 | Preferred Stock: $6,000,000 | Date: 1/12 | Strategic Acquisition

Aerospace Manufacturing Group is the holding company for two high precision machining and engineering companies that provide mission-critical components to aerospace and defense OEMs and systems suppliers. The Company’s core competency is manufacturing small to very large (i.e. in excess of 70 ft.) size, complex, milled machined parts and sub-assemblies requiring extremely tight tolerances, unique metallurgical properties and multi-step production engineering.

 
   
   

Walpar, L.L.C.
Birmingham, AL
www.walpar.com

Subordinated Debt: $12,000,000 | Common Stock: $4,150,000 | Date: 7/09 | Leveraged Buyout

Walpar, L.L.C. is the leading manufacturer of overhead highway signage structures in the Southeastern and Middle Atlantic United States. The Company designs and manufactures highly-engineered cantilevered and full road spanning structures that typically hold DOT road signage, but also can be designed to hold electronic traffic instruction signage, traffic cameras, and the like.

 
   
   

Copperhead Chemical Company, Inc.
Tamaqua, PA
www.copperheadchemical.com

Subordinated Debt: $4,200,000 | Date: 7/09 | Recapitalization

Copperhead Chemical Company, Inc. is the only FDA-approved North American manufacturer of diluted nitroglycerin used in pharmaceutical products. In addition to its medical market, Copperhead supplies nitroglycerin-based compounds to the U.S. military.

 
   
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Tex Tech Industries, Inc.
North Monmouth, ME
www.textechindustries.com

Senior Debt: $14,500,000 / Date: 6/10 / Recapitalization

Tex Tech Industries, Inc., together with its U.S. and Asian subsidiaries, is a leading manufacturer of highly-engineered woven and non-woven fabrics used in numerous industrial applications, including aerospace, mass transportation, aviation, defense, filtration, ballistics, and fire blocking. The Company is also the dominant worldwide supplier of high performance tennis ball felt.