William Blair acted as financial advisor to Hermetic Solutions Group (HSG), a portfolio company of Windjammer Capital Investors, in connection with its sale to Qnnect, a portfolio company of Arcline Investment Management. The transaction closed on November 2, 2022.
About the Companies
HSG, based in Trevose, Pennsylvania, is a leading provider of highly engineered, mission-critical, performance-enabling components and assemblies with the goal of protection, preservation, and enhancement of electronic signal generation and transmission under extreme operating conditions to the aerospace and defense, industrial, and medical end markets.
Founded in 1990, Windjammer Capital Investors, with offices in Newport Beach, California and Waltham, Massachusetts, is a private investment firm that makes control and non-control investments in leading middle market businesses in partnership with management. Windjammer Capital Investors seeks to make investments in companies that are niche market leaders with mission-critical products/services, a high-value to cost proposition, identifiable growth and led by experienced management teams.
Qnnect is a leading global producer of highly engineered electronic interconnect solutions for high-performance applications.
Arcline Investment Management is a growth-oriented private equity firm that seeks to invest in niche, technology-driven businesses in high-value industries. The company’s investment strategy combines deep business model expertise, proactive thematic research, an unrelenting focus on the upside, and a collaborative, management-first approach to value creation. The firm’s primary sectors of interest include defense, aerospace, industrial technology, life sciences, energy transition and specialty materials. Arcline Investment Management currently has $4.4bn in cumulative capital commitments.
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