Lawrence Simon

Lawrence R. Simon is a Partner at Clearview Capital, a private equity firm founded in 1999 that invests in lower middle-market companies across North America. Simon established Clearview's Los Angeles office and has directed the firm's transaction sourcing effort in the western United States since joining in 2005. He brings an extensive background in the origination, structuring, financing, and execution of middle-market transactions, and is regularly listed as the deal contact on Clearview's western-region acquisitions.

Before Clearview, Simon was a Principal at Triton Pacific Capital Partners, LLC, a Los Angeles–based private equity group, where he led the firm's transaction sourcing efforts. Earlier in his career he worked at Mille Capital and The Shattan Group, LLC — both New York–based middle-market investment banking firms — where he originated and executed institutional private equity financings and M&A engagements for clients.

Simon holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and an undergraduate degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

It is worth flagging that the source stub described Simon as an "Angel Investor" making "Seed Round" investments. Public sources do not support this: Simon is a private equity partner focused on control-oriented buyouts and recapitalizations of established, cash-flow-positive lower middle-market businesses, not early-stage startup investing. The contact details (email and phone) in the stub are accurate and match Clearview's published materials.

• Invests through Clearview Capital's institutional funds — most recently Clearview Capital Fund V, an ~$850 million vehicle closed in 2022 — rather than as a personal angel.
• Focuses on control buyouts and recapitalizations of profitable lower middle-market companies, typically those with ~$5–$25 million of EBITDA (some sources cite an $4–$20 million operating-profit range).
• Writes equity checks of roughly $30–$125 million per platform investment.
• Looks for companies with a history of profitable growth, a strong and sustainable competitive position, favorable growth prospects, and a management team that wants to stay and continue running the business.
• Provides capital plus operational and strategic support to drive both organic growth and add-on acquisitions ("buy-and-build").
• Sector-agnostic but active in manufacturing, plastics, food processing, consumer products, education, healthcare services, business/outsourcing services, and distribution.
• Simon's specific mandate is sourcing western-U.S. deal flow from Clearview's Los Angeles office.