DFX Intelligence
Kinderhook Industries, LLC and Ecowaste Solutions
Recapitalization deal
Industrial services.
No date on record · this record
- Announced
- Jan 16, 2026
- Firms on the deal team
- 3
- Capital providers
- 7
No date on record · this record
1 additional firm on the deal team, 4 additional capital providers
Every relationship, signal and contact on this record, with the source on each.
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The buyer on this deal is not served as an independent sponsor (a strategic acquirer, or a lender recorded as the buyer). The deal team is shown, and it is not counted in any firm's independent sponsor deals.
Independent sponsor
No principal is named in the announcement.
Capital, role not stated
- Ares Capital · Capital provider
- Kinderhook Fund 8 · Capital providerCorwynne Carruthers, Robert Michalik
- Goldman Sachs Alternatives · Capital provider
The announcement
Kinderhook Industries, LLC ("Kinderhook"), a leading middle market private equity firm, announced the closing of a single-asset continuation vehicle transaction for Ecowaste Solutions, a newly formed waste services provider created through the combination of Live Oak Environmental and CARDS Recycling.
DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) kinderhook.com
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Sponsor and buyer counsel
- Kirkland & Ellis LLP · Sponsor counsel for Kinderhook Industries, LLCKinderhook IndustriesInferred
Buy-side and financial advisors
- Jefferies LLC · Financial advisor (side not stated)
- Stifel · Placement agent
Debt advisor
- Debt advisor / debt placement: named with Independent Sponsor Intelligence