We make control investments in founder- and family-owned businesses.
Sheriff & Co. is an operator-led platform combining capital markets, institutional credit, and public-company operating experience to acquire, recapitalize, and scale businesses with speed and discipline.
Transaction figures reflect the collective principal experience of the team prior to or outside Sheriff & Co.
Control investments in cash-flow-positive lower-middle-market businesses with $3 to $15mm of EBITDA and durable unit economics.
Business owners today have more choices than ever when deciding what comes next. Yet too often, they are presented with a single path, one shaped more by a buyer's investment model than by the needs of the business, its people, and its founder.
Private equity is one path. A family-backed independent sponsor is another: one with the capital, experience, and flexibility to help a business reach its full potential. We believe more founders deserve access to that choice.
Sheriff & Co. was founded on a simple conviction: every exceptional business deserves a partner capable of considering the full range of strategic alternatives, not one confined to a predetermined investment thesis or exit plan.
We are founders ourselves. We have built companies, met payroll, and carried the weight of decisions that shape the lives of employees, customers, and families. We are also a family enterprise. Our name is on the door because we carry a legacy of our own. We understand firsthand what it means to steward something built over years and, often, across generations.
Our team brings together founder experience, private investing, operational leadership, institutional finance, and capital markets expertise. Collectively, we have participated in more than a thousand transactions and bring capabilities spanning the full capital stack, from acquisition financing and strategic growth to public-market execution. This breadth of experience gives us the judgment and flexibility to help owners evaluate what comes next and pursue it with discipline and purpose.
What you have built is more than an asset to be acquired. It is the product of years of judgment, sacrifice, and persistence; its next chapter should reflect that. Sheriff & Co. was created to offer founders a better kind of partnership: one that respects what came before, expands what is possible, and is built to carry a great business forward.
Sheriff & Co. brings operators, sponsors, credit specialists, and capital-markets veterans into each investment, from origination through exit.
40+ years ECM, M&A, and venture investing. Founder and former Co-CEO, Solebury Capital. Former Vice Chairman, PNC Corporate and Institutional Bank. Former Co-Head, ECM Americas, CSFB. 1,000+ equity transactions and $500Bn+ ECM issuance led.
Former public-company COO. 15+ years investing and operating. 40+ Riverhill Ventures investments. 25%+ net revenue growth and 120%+ gross-margin expansion YoY. Scaled and exited an eight-figure quick-service business.
Former Kirkland & Ellis capital markets partner with $3Bn+ in IPO experience, including a $1.2Bn MLP, $10Bn+ in M&A experience, and $1.6Bn+ in SPAC IPOs structured. Former S&P 500 in-house counsel.
Co-founder of CSCG with 160+ institutional lender relationships. Former PNC Corporate Bank underwriter, responsible for structuring and negotiating complex debt facilities for $100MM-Fortune 500 revenue companies. Previously led PNC’s top marketing channel, generating $2B+ in new deposits within six months. U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Army veteran.
Transaction figures reflect the collective principal experience of the team prior to or outside Sheriff & Co.
Go-public readiness, public-company operating support, advisor coordination, and post-transaction execution.
Acquisition, growth, and recapitalization financing across 160+ lender relationships, $20mm to $2.5Bn+.
Senior operators, credit and treasury experts, and functional executives across healthcare, industrials, technology, financial services, consumer, infrastructure, and other sectors.
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