Top Energy & Utilities Holding Companies with Recent Private M&A Activity

198

Active Firms

7,819

TTM Deal Inquiries

$4M-$19M

Core Revenue Range

$800K-$4M

Core EBITDA Range

Top States by Activity

California 14%

Florida 13%

Texas 11%

New York 6%

Illinois 4%

Key Attributes

Focus: Long-Term Ownership | Capital Source: Committed Capital | Operating Approach: Buy & Hold

Sundial

2 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Sundial Holdings is an evergreen Holding Company built to be the most founder-friendly buyer in the lower-middle market.We focus on preserving legacy, protecting teams, and providing true continuity by keeping companies unlevered, maintaining the same team and name, and making fast, fair decisions.What we offer: A growth team to work on operations, long-term capital, bolt-on acquisition support, and a full back office that includes accounting, legal, and fractional resources like marketing. We offer sellers flexible post-close roles, the ability to roll equity into either the fund or their…

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Oct 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
Nov 2024 Acquired Confidential Company

Ventus LLC

1 Total Closed Deal Actively Sourcing Deals

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Ventus is an infrastructure investment and asset management firm that focuses on investing in air cargo and renewable energy infrastructure in Europe and North America.Our Global Strategies:Focus on investment in innovative industrial infrastructure. We target opportunities at the in either real assets or associated operations and technologies. We currently focus on three distinct investment strategies:Acquisition or development of Air Cargo real infrastructure: on or off airport.Acquisition of Air Cargo Handling Operation: on or off airport.Acquisition or development of Biogas plats in…

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Apr 2021 Acquired Skyport a.s.

AMS Partnership

1 Total Closed Deal Actively Sourcing Deals

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AMS Partnership (AMS) was founded in 2022 with the goal of acquiring and operating profitable product and services-based companies to create value for our employees, customers, and communities. AMS stands out from the crowd of traditional financial acquirers by leveraging the founders' years of hands-on small business operational and technical experience.AMS plans to acquire and hold vs the traditional approach of acquire, grow, and sell. We feel that acquiring businesses at fair valuations and continuing to own and operate these businesses indefinitely will provide the best outcome for the…

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Aug 2023 Acquired Confidential Company

JDA Advisors, LLC

1 Total Closed Deal Actively Sourcing Deals

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JDA Advisors believes that investment success requires more than just access to capital. Our firm provides a unique combination of financing along with a deep commitment to advising our portfolio companies over the long term.After over 20 years of working at some of the largest private equity firms in the country, Benjamin Kahn founded JDA Advisors as a holding company to invest in a diversified set of privately held businesses. While JDA has significant consumer expertise in franchising, health & wellness, beauty products & services, and food & beverage, we also look to selectively acquire…

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Aug 2023 Acquired BigBlue Swim School

Rouge River Capital

1 Total Closed Deal Actively Sourcing Deals

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Founded in 2008, Rouge River Capital invests its own capital to acquire majority positions in small to mid-sized North American businesses. We own a diversified portfolio of strong operating businesses in Canada, across three platform sectors (Consumer, Logistics, and Industrials) generating in excess of $400 million in sales. Our Managing Partners are owners, investing their own capital for long-term capital appreciation, and do not raise nor manage external funds. We partner with management that wants to remain active and that want to build long-term value in partnership with Rouge River…

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Dec 2022 Acquired Brookdale Treeland Nurseries

Haywood Lane

1 Total Closed Deal Actively Sourcing Deals

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At Haywood Lane, we seek to build great companies through a distinct platform, allowing us to focus on a single, large and fragmented market at a time. By immersing ourselves in the industry alongside our management partners we best position ourselves to build relationships, increase knowledge and our ability to effectively scale our platform. We value cash generation and quality managers as primary criteria, followed by growth prospects and opportunities to increase value through operational improvements. Founded in mid-2022, we have completed three acquisitions to date and are actively…

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Mar 2022 Acquired Joss Growers, Inc.

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Maverick Cashflow Catalyst LLC

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I'm the owner of Maverick Cashflow Catalyst LLC. An entrepreneur based in Austin, Texas with over 20 years of entrepreneurial, sales, and executive coaching experience. Actively looking for well established HVAC/Plumbing/Electrical companies between Austin and Dallas. Pursuing those with revenues between $3M-$6M, SDE 20% or above, with owners seeking to transition or retire. I intend to move expeditiously through the process and will focus on scaling and growing the organization.

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Murphy Legacy Partners

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Michael Murphy, CPA, is a repeat founder who has built and sold digital infrastructure and consumer platforms while keeping investors whole. Over a two-decade career he has raised more than seven million dollars, closed a $150 million power and land agreement, and overseen construction of a 45 MW computing facility.He also engineered an enterprise email system that delivers two billion messages each year and created video and real-estate platforms that attract millions of users.Murphy manages his own reconciliations, crypto treasury, and GAAP compliance, drawing on early training with the…

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Corporate Rebels North America

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We are the "anti-PE" social impact alternative. We are currently seeking to buy and transform manufacturers and vertical market software companies around the Chicago area with at least 10% EBITDA to convert every acquisition into a 100% employee owned and controlled business. This will be accomplished via a leveraged buyout into a U.S. ESOP trust combined with a "self-management" transformation per the proven Corporate Rebels playbook to maximize both organizational performance and employee control over each business. See our website at https://us.corporate-rebels.com/ for more details on…

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Montlake Partners LLC

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Todd Owens and Paul Judy bring 25+ years of co-leadership experience building, operating, and scaling companies from early-stage to $100M+ ARR across tech-enabled services, SaaS, healthcare, and light manufacturing. Their complementary skill set pairs aggressive GTM and commercial growth leadership (Todd) with disciplined operational execution and customer delivery (Paul).Acquisition MandateActively evaluating acquisition targets west of the Rocky Mountains in stable, fragmented industries with low risk of AI disintermediation.Target Criteria:Primary Sectors: Home Services | B2B Tech-Enabled…

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Perpetuo Corp

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Perpetuo is a permanent capital holding vehicle deploying committed capital directly from our balance sheet, we seek to acquire US based businesses through majority change in control LBO with historical management continuing to stay in place. Our criteria include EBITDA ranges $2-10M, 12% margins or greater, with 5+ years of profitable cash flow operations. We are sector agnostic, but do not invest in technology, real estate, and capital intensive businesses. We aim to align sellers with our long-term permanent hold strategy through a majority buyout, seller note, and roll over equity.

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Toyota Tsusho

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Toyota Tsusho America, Inc. is a multi-market, multi-business enterprise which has been operating in North America for over 60 years. Based on both the heritage and the vision of our parent company, Toyota Tsusho Corporation, the trading affiliate of the Toyota Group companies, we have greatly enlarged upon our traditional trading business model by developing new manufacturing, intermediate goods processing and logistics activities in United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.Toyota Tsusho America’s business spans a wide range of fields. We have organized our business under seven…

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Inlet Point Holdings

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Sod Solutions is a leading turfgrass research, development, and technology company headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina. Since 1994, we’ve partnered with top turfgrass breeders, producers, and industry stakeholders to develop and license some of the most successful turfgrass brands in the market. Beyond our core turfgrass licensing and technology platforms, we own and operate a growing portfolio of businesses adjacent to the lawn and landscape industries.Acquisition Criteria: We are actively seeking to diversify our holdings through the acquisition of well-run small businesses…

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Brattle Point, LLC

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Brattle Technologies is a family-owned holding company of fantastic American businesses.We are not a private equity firm and do not seek profit from the regular sale of our holdings.Instead, we provide capital and professional, long-term ownership to our companies to help them grow into significantly larger enterprises over many years of stable ownership.In other words, we are investors for the long run.

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Follis Management Partners

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Founded in 2021, FMP is a value-oriented holding vehicle focused on long-term value creation across its portfolio companies. We aim to deploy medium-to-long duration capital across the capital structure, primarily focused on controlling equity stakes.Our experience is rooted from structuring and executing complex public markets transactions, but we have always gravitated towards entrepreneur-led private enterprises. Given our expertise, we can get up-to-speed and comfortable on unique opportunities. No financial engineering. No games. We are interested in the success of valuable…

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Medley Holdings

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Medley Holdings is an entrepreneurial, operationally‑focused investment firm partnering with founder‑owned consumer and services businesses.We invest in growth and work hands‑on alongside founders, bringing support and resources to help businesses reach their full potential and scale into category leaders.

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Athen Systems

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Athen Systems is a private investment firm focused on small to medium sized acquisitions. We are focused on acquiring, managing, and empowering leading exceptional technology companies.Pre-acquisition, we do a deep dive into the operations and market industry of our target company. We identify the company’s strengths, weaknesses, gaps, and processes and capture the information in a cohesive and action-oriented plan. Thus we are well-positioned post-acquisition to execute an optimization plan to fill operational gaps and invest in areas of strength.

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Greenrow Capital

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Greenrow Capital is an operator-led investment firm focused on acquiring, operating, and growing lower middle-market service businesses. Our team’s experience spans more than three decades across industries such as commercial truck dealerships, fleet maintenance, distribution, hospitality, and restaurants. Individually, our team has owned and operated multiple hotels and restaurants, run large commercial truck dealership and service operations, and held leadership roles in corporate finance, leveraged lending, and asset management. We have also founded and managed investment platforms…

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Outpost Companies

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Outpost Companies is an entrepreneurial holding company that focuses on long-term oriented growth investments. Co-founded by Sam Long and Phil Kantor, Outpost leverages their extensive experience both investing and operating roles to provide strategic support to their portfolio companies.

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Sylmar Group

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Sylmar Group combines decades of industry experience with committed, patient capital to scale businesses in the water sector that serve to protect public health and the environment.

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Firms in the Energy & Utilities Holding Companies directory are ordered based on recent deal activity on Axial. The default order reflects observed market signals rather than a subjective ranking of firm quality.

Each profile provides information about the firm’s areas of focus, transaction criteria, and relevant activity on Axial’s M&A platform. Together, these details provide a clearer view of where a firm is active and the types of companies and opportunities most relevant for it.

Based on activity on Axial’s M&A platform, the core revenue range for Energy & Utilities Holding Companies is $4M-$19M, with a core EBITDA range of $800K-$4M. Company size can be an important indicator of fit, as firms often concentrate their experience, resources, and transaction activity within particular segments of the market.

Relevant Energy & Utilities experience can be an important consideration when evaluating a firm. Familiarity with the sector can provide a stronger understanding of its business models, market dynamics, valuation considerations, and transaction environment. The 198 firms included in this directory provide a starting point for identifying firms with relevant experience and activity in Energy & Utilities.

Not necessarily. Many firms are active across multiple industries, so inclusion in the Energy & Utilities Holding Companies directory reflects relevant experience or activity in Energy & Utilities, rather than an exclusive sector focus. Individual profiles provide additional context on each firm’s areas of focus and activity within the sector.

When comparing Holding Companies with experience in Energy & Utilities, consider factors such as size range, geographic reach, and recent transaction activity. These characteristics vary across the 198 firms included in the directory and can help identify firms that align with your needs.

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