RLH Equity Partners
TOP 50 PE Winner
2020 | 2021 | 2022
Firm Inception: 1982
Number of Active Portfolio Investments: 11
Number of Realized Investments: 44
Investment Range: Revenue $30M to $150M
Current Fund: RLH Investors IV, LP
Transactions completed since October 2020, including acquisitions, add-ons, and divestments:
Platform Investments:
Imre LLC: provides a wide range of digital marketing services (e.g. brand strategy, creative content development, social media programs, reporting & analytics, and public relations) for enterprise clients in two sectors: life sciences / healthcare and consumer products and services. The company has been growing at a 20%+ CAGR for the past three years.
Astound Commerce: one of the largest independent pure-play providers of consulting services that help businesses develop and improve their capabilities to sell to consumers over the internet. Through a global workforce of over 1000 talented professionals, Astound helps its clients use Salesforce’s B2C Commerce Cloud software to enhance the online consumer experience and drive incremental revenue. The company has been growing at a 20%+ CAGR for the past three years.
Keystone Strategy: provides unique consulting solutions based on understanding of competitive dynamics and consumer behavior in large, fast-growing technology markets. Its workforce of over 100 employees (of whom more than half have post-graduate degrees) possess deep expertise in technology, economics, and business strategy. The company has been growing at a 30% CAGR for the past three years.
Divestiture:
ClearView Healthcare Partners: a leading provider of high-intellect, high-impact consulting services to major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies on critical decisions such as whether to advance a new drug compound to the next stage of development. During RLH’s 4+ year investment tenure, the company nearly tripled its revenue run rate, almost entirely through organic growth.
Add-on Acquisition:
RLH Portfolio Company CrossCountry Consulting acquired BluVault.
Leadership:
J. Christopher Lewis, Chair
Rob Rodin, Vice Chair
Kevin Cantrell, Managing Director
Michel Glouchevitch, Managing Director
Murray Rudin, Managing Director
Ryan Smiley, Managing Director
Team Members: 15
Primary Address: 10900 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 850, Los Angeles CA 90024
Website: https://www.rlhequity.com/
Phone Number: 310-405-7200
Industry focus: Business services, healthcare, government services
Overview
RLH Equity Partners invests, together with entrepreneurial leadership teams, in uniquely positioned, high growth, knowledge-based enterprises. Our portfolio companies span the business services, healthcare, and government services sectors and typically have $30-150 million of annual revenue at the time of investment. The RLH investment team, which averages 15 years of private equity experience, provides strategic and operational guidance to our portfolio companies in navigating the opportunities and challenges of scale and rapid growth. Our insights and processes to drive enterprise value have been honed over RLH’s 39-year history of successful investing. RLH currently manages over $1 billion of assets and is actively seeking new portfolio company investments.
Contact RLH Equity
HQ
10900 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 850
Los Angeles, CA 90024
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