What Solace Capital Partners does

Solace Capital Partners, LLC is a Los Angeles-based private equity firm that provides flexible capital solutions to middle market companies in the United States and Canada. Founded in 2013 by Christopher S. Brothers and Brett G. Wyard — both previously senior investors at Oaktree Capital Management, with additional prior tenures at the Carlyle Group (Wyard as Co-head of Carlyle Strategic Partners) and Saybrook Capital (Brothers as head of the Corporate Opportunity Funds) — the firm manages over $500M in assets under management and writes equity checks of $20M to $100M in companies with $50M to $1B in revenue. Solace invests across five verticals: Industrial, Consumer, Transportation & Logistics, Business Services, and Technology/Media/Telecom, executing buyouts, structured investments, recapitalizations, restructurings, corporate carve-outs, sector consolidations, and secondary debt purchases with equity conversion potential.

The firm operates a deliberately lean platform, with approximately 10 professionals across investment, operations, finance, and administration — including two Managing Partners, two Managing Directors, one Operating Advisor, two Vice Presidents, two Associates, and an Executive Assistant. Its only disclosed technology is third-party: Solace uses Intralinks' InvestorVision for secure hosting and maintenance of its LP-facing investor services portal. The platform itself is relationship-driven rather than technology-driven; deal sourcing relies on three decades of cultivated intermediary and management team relationships that yield proprietary or lightly marketed transactions with limited competitive overlap.

Solace generates revenue through management fees on committed capital under management and through performance-based carried interest on successful realizations from portfolio exits. Across 19 completed platform and add-on investments, the portfolio spans Sun Mountain Sports (consumer sporting goods, active), Abbyson Living (omni-channel furniture), ACC Community of Companies (marketing services roll-up), Axis Energy Services (oilfield completions), CST Industries (storage tanks), David's Bridal (bridal retail), Fabcon Precast (construction products), Jet Edge International (private aviation), Patriot Environmental Services (environmental services), Permian Lide (oilfield fluid systems), Siprocal (media technology), and exited positions Transtar Industries (aftermarket driveline) and Select Interior Concepts (building products). The Managing Partners collectively bring over $11B of committed capital experience and over 100 portfolio company investments across their careers.

Name

Solace Capital Partners

Legal name

Solace Capital Partners, LLC

Website

https://solacecap.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Solace Capital Partners is a Los Angeles-based private equity firm providing flexible capital solutions — buyouts, structured investments, recapitalizations, and restructurings — to U.S. and Canadian middle market companies with $50M to $1B in revenue, deploying $20M to $100M equity checks across Industrial, Consumer, Transportation & Logistics, Business Services, and TMT verticals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Middle Market Private Equity

akta.pro primary industry

Middle-Market Lending (FSANADAI)

Keywords

• Middle market private equity
• Special situations investing
• Flexible capital solutions
• Buyout investments
• Portfolio management services

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Private Equity Fund Management: Generates revenue through management fees on assets under management (over $500M AUM) and performance-based carried interest on successful realizations from portfolio investments. Capital is deployed via flexible structures including buyouts, structured investments, recapitalizations, restructurings, corporate carve-outs, sector consolidations, and secondary debt purchases with equity conversion potential. Investment size per deal ranges from $20M to $100M equity with potential for additional co-investment.
2. Investment Returns (Carried Interest): Performance-based economics tied to attractive risk-adjusted returns generated from portfolio realizations. Managing Partners have collectively been involved in the investment of over $11 billion of committed capital across their careers.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Solace Capital Partners is a private equity firm that provides flexible capital solutions to sound middle market companies in the United States and Canada, executing buyouts, structured investments, recapitalizations, restructurings, corporate carve-outs, sector consolidations, and secondary debt purchases. The firm invests $20M–$100M equity per transaction in companies generating $50M–$1B in revenue, manages over $500M in assets under management, and partners with incumbent management teams to drive operational improvements and risk-adjusted returns for its limited partners.

Product overview

Solace Capital Partners is a private equity firm — not a technology product vendor — so its "offering" is a unified investment platform organized around flexible capital solutions for middle market companies in the United States and Canada, supported by the Solace Investor Portal (securely hosted via Intralinks InvestorVision). The core service delivers majority and significant minority investments, buyouts, structured investments, recapitalizations and restructurings, corporate carve-outs and divestitures, sector consolidations, and secondary debt purchases across Industrial, Consumer, Transportation and Logistics, Business Services, and Technology, Media & Telecommunications sectors. The named portfolio companies — Abbyson Living, ACC Community of Companies, Axis Energy Services, CST Industries, David's Bridal, Fabcon Precast, Jet Edge International, Patriot Environmental Services, Permian Lide, Select Interior Concepts (exited), Siprocal, Sun Mountain Sports, and Transtar Industries (exited) — function as the individual investments within the Solace Capital Partners portfolio, with active companies distinguished from exited ones on the portfolio page.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Solace Capital Partners Private Equity Investment Services Flexible capital solutions for sound middle market companies in the United States and Canada, deploying $20M–$100M equity checks per transaction in companies with $50M–$1B in revenue. Investment structures include buyouts, structured investments, recapitalizations, restructurings, corporate carve-outs, sector consolidations, and secondary debt purchases with equity conversion potential, executed in partnership with incumbent management teams. The platform manages over $500M in assets across 19 platform and add-on investments in the Industrial, Consumer, Transportation & Logistics, Business Services, and TMT sectors.
• Solace Investor Portal Secure investor services portal hosted and maintained via Intralinks InvestorVision, providing Solace Capital Partners' Limited Partners with connectivity to fund information, reporting, and LP communications. Accessed via a 'Connect Now' link to apps.intralinks.com/iv.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 100 portfolio companies collectively invested in across Managing Partners' careers
• +3 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature1 record

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Audax Group: Boston-based private equity firm focused on control buyouts in U.S. lower-middle market companies, with similar $20M-$100M+ equity check sizes and a heavy focus on proprietary deal sourcing through intermediary relationships.
• H.I.G. Capital: Miami-based middle-market PE firm providing flexible capital (control, minority, structured debt) to U.S. and European middle market companies, directly overlapping with Solace's flexible-capital, multi-structure approach.
• Centerbridge Partners: New York-based alternative asset manager with deep special situations, distressed, and private equity strategies; comparable to Solace in its flexible-capital orientation and middle-market focus, though typically at a larger scale.
• Madison Dearborn Partners: Chicago-based private equity firm investing across business services, consumer, and industrial verticals in the U.S. lower-middle and middle market; closely comparable vertical mix and constructive-investing orientation to Solace.
• Court Square Capital Partners: New York-based middle-market PE firm executing control buyouts in business services, consumer, and industrial sectors, directly overlapping with Solace's stated verticals and check-size range.
• New Mountain Capital: New York-based middle-market PE firm focused on industrials, business services, and consumer, with a constructive, partnership-style investing approach that mirrors Solace's value-creation playbook.
• Saybrook Capital: Special situations middle-market investment firm where co-founder Brothers previously ran the Corporate Opportunity Funds; represents the most directly comparable predecessor firm in size and strategy.

Broad incumbents

• Oaktree Capital Management: Large global alternative asset manager known for special situations and distressed debt investing, where co-founders Brothers and Wyard were both Managing Directors; Solace effectively represents a smaller, middle-market-focused spin-out of the Oaktree playbook.
• The Carlyle Group: Global mega-cap PE firm whose Carlyle Strategic Partners group (previously co-headed by Wyard) pursued middle-market special situations; broader portfolio today but the most direct antecedent of Solace's strategy.

Emerging players

• Stellex Capital Management: New York-based lower-middle market PE firm focused on industrial, business services, and consumer verticals; smaller-scale, founder-led firm comparable to Solace in team size, check size, and relationship-driven deal sourcing.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Subsidiaries11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A3 records

Investments9 records

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