Lincolnshire Management and VSS Capital Partners Recapitalize Barrier Companies
April 28, 2021
Lincolnshire Management and VSS Capital Partners completed a recapitalization of Barrier Companies, a Lenexa, Kansas-based provider of fire and life safety (FLS) and containment services. Barrier's management (Kirk Kaiser, Jaye Sieland and Michael Haverty) reinvested and retained significant equity while the new capital will support accelerated organic growth and an add-on acquisition strategy.
- Buyers
- Lincolnshire Management, Inc., VSS Capital Partners
- Targets
- Barrier Companies
- Sellers
- Kirk Kaiser, Jaye Sieland, Michael Haverty
- Industry
- Industrial Services
- Location
- Kansas, United States
- Transaction Type
- Recapitalization
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