Ocean Avenue Capital Partners

Ocean Avenue Capital Partners is an independent private equity firm with offices in Santa Monica, California. Ocean Avenue is a source of institutional equity capital focusing on independent sponsor sourced transactions in the lower middle market. Its investment focus targets the inefficient market segments of private equity, as defined by either the size or the complexity of the transactions.

The firm prefers $15 to $25 million equity investments. The company lists the following preferred situations: Founder-owned business in transition, recapitalizations, underperforming business due to insufficient management and/or resources, operational turnarounds, carve-outs of non-core divisions or subsidiaries, bankruptcies, § 363 asset sales, plans of reorganization, out of court restructurings and thematic platform builds.