Andres Churin

Andres Churin is a Vice President (also described in firm materials as a Principal-level investment professional) at Dos Rios Partners, a Texas-based private equity partnership founded in 2012 with offices anchored in Austin/San Antonio, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Houston. In his role he oversees private equity investments end-to-end — coordinating due diligence, drafting letters of intent, building financial and valuation models, running industry diligence, and managing banking relationships and bank amendments. He also serves on portfolio-company boards of directors, where he maintains relationships with management teams, explores strategic initiatives, and helps facilitate negotiations among stakeholders.

Before Dos Rios, Churin was a Senior Analyst / Senior Associate at Satori Capital, a Dallas-based conscious-capitalism investment firm, where he focused on deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio monitoring. Earlier in his career he worked as an Analyst in the Private Equity Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co., giving him institutional-grade training in transaction execution and investment analysis.

Churin earned a BBA in Finance with Business Honors from The University of Texas at Austin, where sources indicate he graduated with honors.

Dos Rios itself was formed by partners including co-founders Bo Baskin and Kevin Benoit, along with Jay Turner (Dallas) and Wayne Patterson (Houston), with additional investment professionals such as Joseph Mercer and Kevin Glomb. The firm invests in the junior securities (common, preferred, and/or mezzanine) of established niche businesses, generally alongside strong, motivated management teams and sponsors.

• Invests in proven, cash-generative lower-middle-market companies, typically ~$2–12 million EBITDA — not startups; the firm emphasizes it backs companies with long operating histories (from ~15 years to over a century old).
• Targets "niche or niche-dominating" businesses with a competitive advantage that need capital and operating help to reach the next level of profitability and growth.
• Flexible structuring across control and minority positions, using common, preferred, and mezzanine securities; transaction types include buyouts, recapitalizations, growth capital, acquisitions, shareholder liquidity/diversification, and de-levering.
• Equity checks of roughly $5–15 million per deal, with room for larger deals through co-investment partnerships.
• Sector-generalist within the lower middle market: business services, consumer products & services, financial services, manufacturing & industrial, transportation & distribution.
• Geographically disciplined around Texas and five neighboring states, reflecting a relationship- and management-team-driven sourcing model.