M&A Deal Summary

Southfield Capital and Comvest Partners Acquire TFS

On July 15, 2024, private equity firms Southfield Capital and Comvest Partners acquired business services company TFS from OnPoint Group

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Southfield Capital’s 9th and Comvest Partners’ 4th transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is Southfield Capital’s 19th and Comvest Partners’ 58th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Southfield Capital’s 2nd and Comvest Partners’ 1st transaction in Ohio.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2024-07-15
Target TFS
Sector Business Services
Buyer(s) Southfield Capital
Comvest Partners
Sellers(s) OnPoint Group
Deal Type Divestiture
Advisor(s) Baird (Financial)
White & Case (Legal)

Target

TFS

Perrysburg, Ohio, United States
TFS optimizes material handling equipment fleets by providing turnkey fleet management services for Fortune 1000 companies and large manufacturing & distribution companies throughout North America. The company's analysts utilize a centralized, streamlined fleet management model to consistently generate significant improvements and cost savings across the full life cycle of the fleets they manage. TFS is based in Perrysburg, Ohio.

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Buyer(S) 2

Buyer

Southfield Capital

Greenwich, Connecticut, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2002
PE ASSETS 1.5B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Southfield Capital is a private equity group focused on buying and building middle-market business service companies headquartered throughout North America. The Firm prefers control investment situations and looks to commit $20 to $80 million of equity capital in profitable businesses with $4 to $20 million of EBITDA. Specific sectors of interest include business services, financial services, real estate services, IT, industrial services, and transportation. Prospective investment situations include buyouts, consolidations, recapitalizations, and growth financings. Southfield Capital is based in Greenwich, Connecticut.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 22 of 22
Sector: Business Services M&A 9 of 9
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: Ohio M&A 2 of 2
Country: United States M&A 19 of 19
Year: 2024 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2024-07-10 Business Development Resources

SeaTac, Washington, United States

Business Development Resources is a business coaching and training organization for field services contractors and distributors. Business Development Resources was founded in 1998 and is based in SeaTac, Washington.

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Buyer

Comvest Partners

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2000
PE ASSETS 16.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION
Comvest Partners' headquarters in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Comvest Partners' headquarters in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Comvest Partners is a private investment firm that provides equity and debt capital to middle-market companies across North America. Comvest funds a variety of investment situations, including buyouts, divestitures, recapitalizations, consolidations, take privates, and turnarounds. Sectors of interest include business services, information services, education, financial services, healthcare services, software, IT, and transportation. For equity investments, Comvest prefers control and looks to invest $50 to $150 million per transaction. For debt needs, Comvest seeks to provide $25 to $250 million per transaction. Comvest Partners was formed in 2000 and is based in West Palm Beach, Florida.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 59 of 62
Sector: Business Services M&A 4 of 5
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 7 of 7
State: Ohio M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 58 of 61
Year: 2024 M&A 2 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2024-03-21 Senior Helpers

Towson, Maryland, United States

Senior Helpers is a franchisor of private pay, professional home care for elderly individuals. The Company provides specialized programs that have been developed in collaboration with medical experts and offers specialized care services for individuals with Alzheimer's, dementia, and Parkinson's. Senior Helpers was founded in 2002 and is based in Towson, Maryland.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2024-10-28 Seatex

Rosenberg, Texas, United States

Seatex is a chemical provider of turnkey liquids and solids blending, toll manufacturing, and packaging services. The Company produces detergents, sanitizers, emulsifiers, additives, and other products for the energy, cleaning, agronomics, and industrial end markets. It operates two production locations outside with in excess of 500,000 square feet of manufacturing space. Seatex was founded in 1967 and is based in Rosenberg, Texas.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

OnPoint Group

Perrysburg, Ohio, United States

Category Company
Founded 2001
Sector Business Services
DESCRIPTION

OnPoint Group is a North American provider of management and maintenance services for doors, docks, material handling and warehouse accessories through its industry leading divisions: TFS, Miner, TrueSource, and Concentric. OnPoint Group has more than 600 technicians in over 80 locations to consistently deliver efficiency, safety and productivity to customers responsible for maintaining multifacility operations. OnPoint Group was founded in 2001 and is based in Perrysburg, Ohio.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 2
Sector: Business Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 2 of 2
State: Ohio M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2024 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2023-10-03 Concentric

Carrollton, Texas, United States

Concentric is a DC power management and on-site maintenance for the material handling and critical power industries. Concentric was founded in 2000 and is based in Carrollton, Texas.

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