Private Equity Firm Industrial Services

Riverspan Partners

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Riverspan Partners is a Chicago-based private equity firm committed to helping industrial businesses find new growth vectors and build durable, long-term success. It collaborates with founders and leadership teams with strategic guidance and operational expertise, investing in lower-middle-market industrial companies across chemicals and materials, industrial technology and engineered components, building products, industrial services, and healthcare manufacturing.

Focus Areas
Industrial technology and engineered components, Chemicals and materials, Building products
Website
riverspan.com

Tracked deals

3

3 tracked deals across 2024-2026.

Recent pace

1

1 tracked deal announced in the last 12 months.

Deal mix

Addon

1 addon · 1 divestiture · 1 growth capital

Riverspan Partners Acquisition Volume by Year

Last 2 years

Acquisition volume by year Annual acquisition counts for the last 2 years for Riverspan Partners. 2 2024 ~1 est. 1 2026
Actual Full-year estimate

Supporting Data

Recent Transactions

  • Buyer
    High Divide Minerals, Riverspan Partners
    Target
    Vanderbilt Minerals
    Location
    United States
    Type
    Addon

    High Divide Minerals, a Riverspan Partners-backed industrial minerals platform, announced it is absorbing Vanderbilt Minerals. The add-on expands High Divide from a talc-focused miner into a broader specialty-minerals supplier for construction and coatings markets, processing talc, mica, wollastonite, and ultrafine calcium carbonate across multiple facilities.

  • Buyer
    Riverspan Partners
    Target
    POLARIS Laboratories

    POLARIS Laboratories has received a strategic growth investment from Riverspan Partners to accelerate product and service development and expand into new markets. The investment will support POLARIS's AI-enabled testing platform and help the company scale its predictive fluid analysis and reliability services globally.

  • Buyer
    Riverspan Partners
    Target
    Barretts Minerals Inc. (talc assets)
    Seller
    Minerals Technologies Inc., Barretts Minerals Inc.
    Industry
    Manufacturing

    Riverspan Partners acquired the talc assets of Barretts Minerals Inc. from Minerals Technologies Inc. for $32 million following approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. The assets will continue to operate under the Barretts Minerals brand as Riverspan — a Chicago-based PE firm focused on industrials — provides financial and operational support to expand the product portfolio.

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