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Black Bay Partners

Black Bay Partners takes minority stakes in growing companies, usually without full control, from New York, United States. It states a focus on energy & utilities, environmental & safety, industrials & manufacturing and materials & chemicals.

Disclosed holdings
Earliest stated investment
HeadquartersNew York, United States
Largest single fundNot stated

Stated investment criteria

What Black Bay Partners says it buys

Read from Black Bay Partners’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.

Transaction typesGrowth1
Founded20161
OfficesNew York3
People listed on its team page252

A stated mandate is a firm’s description of itself and was true of the page on the day it was read; firms widen and narrow what they will look at without updating the site. Black Bay Partners states that it will take either a controlling or a minority stake. The team figure counts the people the firm shows on one team page, so it is a floor rather than a headcount: firms that split their team across tabs or load it in pages will read low. Nothing here is a commitment by Black Bay Partners to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.

Regulatory record

How Black Bay Partners is registered

From this firm's Form ADV, the annual filing every registered and exempt investment adviser makes to the SEC.

Adviser statusSEC registered
Regulatory assets under management$830m
Employees17
Private funds advised7 · $428m gross
SEC adviser numberCRD 284945

Valuation context

Transaction values in Energy & Utilities

What companies have actually sold for in energy & utilities, across 584 recorded transactions.

Median consideration$180m
Middle 50%$45m-$420m
Revenue multiple1.4×
EBITDA multiple7.1×

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