Sample report · private equity m&a

50 Best Acquirers for This Company

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The brief

We advise a $40M revenue commercial HVAC services company in Texas. Find the PE platforms and strategics most likely to acquire it, with their recent add-ons and the person who runs the deal.

deals in the trade since 2023

acquirers ranked

PE platforms with a deal in the trade

have already bought in Texas

The top five, as printed

Ranked on the companies each buyer bought in the trade, never on a stated sector

#	Acquirer	Fit	Type	Backed by	Deals	Newest
1	Sila Services	73.1	PE platform	Goldman Sachs Alternatives	8	2026-07-06
2	Flow Service Partners	71.7	PE platform	Quad-C Management, Inc.	2	2026-08-25
3	Integra Testing Services	64	PE platform	Harvest Partners, LP	1	2026-07-01
4	Legacy Service Partners	63.6	PE platform	Gridiron Capital	4	2026-07-02
5	AeriTek Global Holdings	63.3	PE platform	Mill Point Capital LLC	4	2026-05-06

What was refused

36 candidates screened out, with reasons

Sponsors whose only deal in the trade was a sale: sellers leaving it, not buyers
Word matches outside the trade (classic car air conditioning, a district cooling utility, a mechanical engineering carve-out)
Family offices the capital matcher ranked on control appetite alone, with no deal in the trade
Minority co-investments, and deal descriptions or press sentences recorded where a buyer's name belongs

What DFX cannot see, stated

The limitations are printed, not buried

Deals are what was announced; a buyer that closes quietly is invisible, not uninterested
No ranked buyer has a dated HVAC deal in Texas on the record, because most announcements name no target state; Texas is scored as a preference, not a filter
No price is estimated: revenue, EBITDA and enterprise value appear only where disclosed
Strategic buyers are thin on the record; the list is mostly sponsor platforms for that reason

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50 Best Acquirers for This Company

Ranked on the companies each buyer bought in the trade, never on a stated sector

#	Acquirer	Fit	Type	Backed by	Deals	Newest
1	Sila Services	73.1	PE platform	Goldman Sachs Alternatives	8	2026-07-06
2	Flow Service Partners	71.7	PE platform	Quad-C Management, Inc.	2	2026-08-25
3	Integra Testing Services	64	PE platform	Harvest Partners, LP	1	2026-07-01
4	Legacy Service Partners	63.6	PE platform	Gridiron Capital	4	2026-07-02
5	AeriTek Global Holdings	63.3	PE platform	Mill Point Capital LLC	4	2026-05-06

36 candidates screened out, with reasons

Sponsors whose only deal in the trade was a sale: sellers leaving it, not buyers

Word matches outside the trade (classic car air conditioning, a district cooling utility, a mechanical engineering carve-out)

Family offices the capital matcher ranked on control appetite alone, with no deal in the trade

Minority co-investments, and deal descriptions or press sentences recorded where a buyer's name belongs

The limitations are printed, not buried

Deals are what was announced; a buyer that closes quietly is invisible, not uninterested

No ranked buyer has a dated HVAC deal in Texas on the record, because most announcements name no target state; Texas is scored as a preference, not a filter

No price is estimated: revenue, EBITDA and enterprise value appear only where disclosed

Strategic buyers are thin on the record; the list is mostly sponsor platforms for that reason