Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce that Trystar, a portfolio company of Goldner Hawn, has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by private equity funds affiliated with Blackstone (NYSE:BX).
Established in 1991, Trystar is a premier designer and manufacturer of high-performance electrical power solutions used for mission-critical applications across a diverse range of end markets with high cost-of-failure power needs. Trystar’s comprehensive portfolio of highly engineered solutions helps ensure the reliability of backup, emergency, and temporary power for critical operations across a range of end markets, including data centers, utilities, commercial, industrial, and healthcare. Trystar’s engineering and R&D expertise enables the company to develop highly configured and custom solutions tailored to address unique customer specifications and complex applications. Trystar is well-positioned to capitalize on strong secular megatrends, including electrification, aging infrastructure, and renewables expansion, which underpin long-term growth across the diverse end markets the company serves. The company is headquartered in Faribault, Minnesota, and has a well-invested and vertically integrated manufacturing footprint with facilities across the United States and Canada.
Goldner Hawn was founded in 1989 in Minneapolis and has been a source of private capital to leading lower-middle-market companies for more than 30 years. With an investment philosophy centered on the principle of partnership, Goldner Hawn seeks to back management teams in industries, including specialty manufacturing, value-added distribution, business and consumer services, and outsourced business services. Goldner Hawn has made more than 100 platform and add-on investments in companies with total transaction values exceeding $4 billion.
Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager, with more than $1 trillion in assets under management. Blackstone Energy Transition Partners is Blackstone’s energy-focused private equity business, a leading energy investor with a successful long-term record, having invested approximately $22 billion of equity globally across a broad range of sectors within the energy industry. The acquisition of Trystar marks the latest in a series of energy transition-focused investments for Blackstone, which will look to leverage its global scale and deep domain expertise across the high-growth data center ecosystem to further enhance Trystar’s market position.
Houlihan Lokey served as the exclusive financial advisor to Trystar and Goldner Hawn and assisted in marketing, structuring, and negotiating the transaction on their behalf. This transaction highlights the team’s expertise and continued success of Houlihan Lokey’s dedicated coverage of the global industrial technology and power and electrical equipment sectors.
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