Buyout PE
Castle Harlan
Castle Harlan acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from United States. It states a focus on software & internet, healthcare & life sciences and financial services.
Stated investment criteria
What Castle Harlan says it buys
Read from Castle Harlan’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.
| Founded | 19871 |
Source
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. Castle Harlan states that it takes majority or outright ownership. Nothing here is a commitment by Castle Harlan to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.
Regulatory record
How Castle Harlan is registered
From this firm's Form ADV, the annual filing every registered and exempt investment adviser makes to the SEC.
| Adviser status | SEC registered |
| Regulatory assets under management | $678m |
| Employees | 27 |
| Private funds advised | 21 · $678m gross |
| SEC adviser number | CRD 158106 |
Portfolio
Disclosed holdings
Companies Castle Harlan lists on its own website. 7 carry a stated investment year.
| Company | Invested | Years held | Recorded transaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHPII acquired INDSPEC in | 1993 | 33 | — |
| CHPII acquired MAG in November | 1993 | 33 | — |
| Castle Harlan recapitalized this company in February | 1997 | 29 | — |
| As of | 2003 | 23 | — |
| United Malt Holdings In September | 2006 | 20 | — |
| Tensar Corporation | 2014 | 12 | — |
| Baja Aqua Farms | 2023 | 3 | — |
| Alumni | — | — | — |
| AmeriCast Technologies, Inc. | — | — | — |
| Ames True Temper | — | — | — |
| Austar United Communications Limited | — | — | — |
| Baker Taylor | — | — | — |
| Bravo Development Inc. | — | — | — |
| Caribbean Restaurants, LLC | — | — | — |
| Cornerstone | — | — | — |
| Gold Star Foods, Inc. | — | — | — |
| Horizon Lines Holding Corp. | — | — | — |
| IDQ Holdings, Inc. | — | — | — |
| INDSPEC Chemical Corporation | — | — | — |
| INNOVÉ Beauty Wellness | — | — | — |
| In business since | — | — | — |
| Land 'N' Sea Distributing, Inc. | — | — | — |
| MAG Aerospace Industries, Inc. | — | — | — |
| McCormick Schmick Management Group | — | — | — |
| Morton's Restaurant Group, Inc. | — | — | — |
| Polypipe Group | — | — | — |
| Pretium Packaging, LLC | — | — | — |
| RathGibson | — | — | — |
| Securus Technologies, Inc. | — | — | — |
| Shelf Drilling | — | — | — |
| Smarte Carte Corporation | — | — | — |
| Titan Production Equipment | — | — | — |
| US Synthetic Corporation | — | — | — |
| United Malt Holdings | — | — | — |
| Universal Compression, Inc. | — | — | — |
| success-story | — | — | — |
Compiled from Castle Harlan’s published portfolio page. Where a recorded transaction is shown, that company was the target of a reported deal and has most likely already been realised. Nothing here is represented as being for sale.
Recorded transactions
Buying and selling
Deals in which Castle Harlan is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 2 recorded exits, most recently in 2021.
| Company | Side | Counterparty | Year | Consideration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tensar | Sold | CMC | 2021 | $550m |
| Horizon Lines | Sold | Matson | 2014 | $469m |
Compiled from a transaction archive of 10,204 recorded deals. Most private transactions are never disclosed, so this is a sample of a firm’s activity rather than a complete record of it.
Valuation context
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