Clayton Lechleiter

Clayton Lechleiter is a Managing Director at Kingswood Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm. Kingswood’s team page says he is responsible for all aspects of the investment process, including sourcing, transaction execution, and portfolio company oversight.

Before joining Kingswood, Lechleiter was an Associate Analyst at Imperial Capital, where he published capital structure research on stressed and distressed companies across multiple industries. Earlier, he was an Associate at Madison Dearborn Partners and an Analyst at Moelis & Company.

Lechleiter graduated magna cum laude from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. His current Kingswood portfolio coverage includes companies such as RAVE Aerospace, World Market, The Save Mart Companies, Versar, and One X, where Kingswood portfolio pages identify him as a senior contact.

• Kingswood is not primarily a seed or angel investor; its stated strategy is middle-market private equity in companies that can benefit from capital, operating resources, and hands-on support.
• The firm says it targets “win-win” partnerships with strong underlying businesses where it can help drive operational improvement.
• Deal types Kingswood publicly lists include family/founder-owned businesses, corporate carve-outs, special situations and turnarounds, and take-privates.
• Kingswood’s published criteria call for investment sizes of $30 million-$500 million or greater with co-investment, companies with at least $100 million in revenue, and control or protected-minority governance.
• In the RAVE Aerospace transaction, Lechleiter emphasized reliability, innovation, efficiency, and lowest total cost of ownership as key attributes in evaluating the platform.
• Kingswood’s “Working with Us” page stresses transparent, collaborative, efficient execution with owners, intermediaries, and executives.