Industry-Focused Capital and Advice
for Middle-Market Business Owners

Carbide Partners is an independent firm of operating executives and financial professionals engaged in two businesses: Merchant Banking and Financial & Strategic Advisory.

Merchant Banking

In our Merchant Banking business, Carbide Partners invests its own capital in attractive private equity opportunities. Carbide Partners works actively with talented senior operating executives and outside private equity investors, identifying and arranging the funding for principal investment transactions. 

We achieve superior investment results by concentrating on industries where our senior principals have extensive experience as business owners, senior operating managers, equity investors and corporate directors. Carbide Partners invests in a variety of sectors, but we have particular interest and expertise in the following areas:

Automotive & Industrial
Building Products
Medical Technology
Packaging


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Financial & Strategic Advisory

In our Financial & Strategic Advisory practice, Carbide Partners’ professionals serve as expert, unbiased advisors to middle-market business owners and investors. We help our clients evaluate and implement complex financial and strategic decisions, including business sales and divestitures, acquisitions, debt and equity financings, and financial and operating restructurings.

When our clients have to make tough strategic decisions, they need an independent, experienced and unbiased financial advisory partner who can provide reliable guidance. The industry veterans at Carbide Partners offer expert, cost-effective advice, with no agenda other than helping business owners and investors make the right choices. Click here to understand how we’re different.