Marion Park invests in lower middle market business services companies. The firm targets management, family or founder-owned US-based businesses generating $1 to $4 million of EBITDA .

Sector Focus

Marion Park exclusively invests in business services companies, with a focus on the following sectors:

  • Facility services

  • Commercial services

  • Engineering and construction services

  • Environmental and waste services

  • Human resources services

  • Industrial services

  • Professional and consulting services

  • Utility and telecom services

Investment Profile Attributes

The ideal company for investment has a culture built on providing superior service to its customers, highly values its employees and is at an inflection point where additional capital, operational resources, or strategic guidance can unlock more accelerated growth.

Additional attributes include:

  • High degree of recurring or contractual revenue

  • Diversified customer base

  • Track record of revenue retention and new logo growth

  • Healthy margins

  • Asset-light or low capital intensity model

  • Resilience through economic cycles

Transaction Attributes

Transactions fit the following characteristics:

  • Size: $1 — $4 million EBITDA

  • Geography: United States

  • Ownership Profile: Management, family or founder-owned

Marion Park raises equity capital on a deal-by-deal basis through established relationships with family offices and institutional co-investors.

Seller and Management Team Dynamics

The ideal partnership is one where the founder or management team is energized by what comes next, rather than looking to retire. While the firm can accommodate a seller transition when circumstances require it, the ideal relationship is with a founder or leadership team that sees a transaction not as an ending but as a catalyst for a more accelerated and exciting phase of growth.

In any service business, the team is the enterprise. The people who deliver the service, maintain the customer relationships, and run the day-to-day operations are the reason the business has value in the first place. Marion Park's approach starts from the premise that the vast majority of the team should stay with the business, that the transaction should be a positive event for employees rather than a source of uncertainty, and that post-close growth should create new opportunities for career advancement, expanded responsibility, and ownership participation.