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Olympus Partners

Olympus Partners acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from United States. It states a focus on business & professional services, consumer & retail, healthcare & life sciences and financial services.

Disclosed holdings
Earliest stated investment
HeadquartersUnited States
Stated fund size12 billion

Stated investment criteria

What Olympus Partners says it buys

Read from Olympus 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
Founded19883
People listed on its team page262

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Regulatory record

How Olympus 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$9.2bn
Employees24
Private funds advised12 · $9.2bn gross
SEC adviser numberCRD 160851

Recorded transactions

Buying and selling

Deals in which Olympus Partners is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 4 recorded exits, most recently in 2017.

CompanySideCounterpartyYearConsideration
CenterplateSoldSodexo2017$675m
Professional Service IndustriesSoldIntertek2015$330m
Woodcraft IndustriesSoldQuanex Building Products2015$249m
Pepper DiningSoldBrinker International2015$107m

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

Transaction values in Business & Professional Services

What companies have actually sold for in business & professional services, across 668 recorded transactions.

Median consideration$55m
Middle 50%$11m-$200m
Revenue multiple1.2×
EBITDA multiple8.5×

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