M Bridges

M. Brandon Bridges is a Vice President at Taglich Private Equity (“TPE”), a New York-based lower middle-market private equity firm founded in 2001. TPE describes itself as a value-oriented financial sponsor focused on recapitalizations, management buyouts, and majority equity investments in manufacturing, business services, and consumer products companies.

Bridges joined TPE in 2016. In his current role, he participates in evaluating and executing new investments and monitoring existing portfolio companies. The firm lists him as a board member of For Bare Feet, Pro Compression, and World Product Solutions, and as a board observer at Mare Island Dry Dock; he was previously a board observer at Fiber-Line.

Before TPE, Bridges spent eight years at Parkway Capital Investors, a junior capital firm making mezzanine debt and equity co-investments in lower middle-market companies. His responsibilities there included firm marketing and deal sourcing, investment evaluation and underwriting, and portfolio management. He received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with honors from Towson University.

• TPE targets lower middle-market businesses in manufacturing, business services, and consumer products, with platform investments typically requiring $15 million to $150 million of revenue and $4 million to $15 million of EBITDA.
• The firm’s stated platform check size is $3 million to $20 million, with add-on acquisitions considered at any size.
• TPE looks for companies with a strong market position or niche leadership, profitability through cycles, acquisition opportunities, and significant growth prospects.
• The firm prefers situations involving management buyouts, recapitalizations, change-of-control deals, corporate divestitures, industry consolidation, and growth equity investments.
• TPE says it seeks “strong market position and sustainable competitive advantage” in industries positioned to grow organically or through consolidation.
• The firm emphasizes partnership with management and says it does “not focus on financial engineering” as its route to value creation.
• Bridges’ prior Parkway Capital background suggests he is experienced in mezzanine debt, equity co-investments, sourcing, underwriting, and portfolio monitoring for lower middle-market companies.