Colt Luedde

Managing Director

Colt has 30 years of investment banking and corporate finance experience. Throughout his career, Colt has completed approximately 200 merger and acquisition transactions helping entrepreneurs obtain liquidity via the sale of their business to either a strategic buyer or to a private equity firm.  In addition, he has completed numerous merger and acquisition advisory assignments helping business owners expand their business by acquiring other companies and, in many cases, has also raised the capital required to complete the acquisition via the private placement of both equity and debt.  He has deep transactional experience advising the owners of manufacturing, distribution, service and software businesses in the industrial and energy sectors of the economy.  He has also worked extensively in other sectors such as aerospace, business services and consumer. Colt serves on the board of, and is a past-president of, the Association for Corporate Growth (Houston Chapter).  Additionally, he is a former board member of the Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Center for Private Equity Finance at The University of Texas at Austin.

Colt earned a B.B.A. in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin.

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Founded in 1942, Basler is a third-generation, family-owned manufacturer of electrical control and protection solutions, based in Highland, Illinois, with approximately 700 employees. Basler’s innovative products regulate and protect mission-critical equipment and are used by more than 1,600 global customers across a diverse range of critical applications and high-growth end markets, including power generation, power transmission, grid and utility infrastructure, HVAC, data centers, and industrial and electrical equipment. The Company operates three manufacturing facilities in Highland, Illinois; Taylor, Texas; and Piedras Negras, Mexico.

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Business Services
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For over 50 years, Steger Bizzell has been a leader in civil engineering in Central Texas. The Company has performed more than 22,000 projects for governmental and private clients, with expertise covering a wide range of disciplines including hydraulic and hydro-logic analysis, floodplain mapping, transportation, water and wastewater utilities, planning and site design, and surveying. Headquartered in Georgetown, just north of Austin, Steger Bizzell adds a team of more than 50 technical experts with deep water, wastewater and land development expertise to CHA, a full-service engineering, design, and management consulting firm. Steger Bizzell will rebrand as Steger Bizzell, A CHA Company. The acquisition expands CHA’s team to more than 2,100 professionals across 55+ offices, from Canada to Florida to California.

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Consumer Products & Services
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Alpha, a privately held, family-owned frozen foods manufacturer based in Waller, Texas, was founded in 1984 by Greek immigrants George and Athena Sarandos. Alpha has grown from a regional foodservice distributor into a highly respected producer of frozen pizzas and pizza components for national accounts. Today, Alpha operates from a modern, highly efficient, 115,000-square-foot manufacturing and distribution facility serving a broad range of customers, including K-12 schools, leading grocery retailers and well recognized packaged foods brands.

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Energy, Power & Infrastructure
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Founded in 1925 as Arthur Dooley & Son and renamed Dooley Tackaberry following its 1987 acquisition of The Tackaberry Company, Dooley has an extensive history in the distribution of fire and safety equipment to the oil and gas industry and municipal fire service market. Having grown steadily, Dooley’s biggest strengths are designing and fabricating fire detection and suppression systems as well as supplying fire protection and personal protective equipment to upstream, midstream and downstream customers throughout the world. Today, Dooley represents all major product lines in the fire and safety equipment industry.

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Energy, Power & Infrastructure
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Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Collinsville, Oklahoma, Victory is a leading designer and manufacturer of industrial and commercial combustion, heat-transfer and steam production solutions, ranging from engineered firetube and watertube boilers and burners to heat recovery steam generators and high temperature hot water heaters. As part of the Company’s customer commitment, Victory provides extensive aftermarket customer support services, such as installation, commissioning and maintenance services, spare parts, burner and economizer retrofits and boiler fleet rental. Victory operates globally across a diverse and extensive group of industry sectors, including chemical, pulp & paper, food & beverage, bio-renewables, agriculture, education, healthcare, aviation and utilities.

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Industrial Services & Manufacturing
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Software & Tech-Enabled Services
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Divcon Controls provides building automation consultation and custom design for the commercial and manufacturing industries.

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