Nat Bacon

Nathaniel “Nat” Bacon is a Principal at Century Park Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-area private equity firm focused on lower middle-market recapitalizations and buyouts. Century Park announced his addition to the deal team on September 16, 2024, stating that he would source and lead recapitalization and buyout transactions and manage and monitor portfolio investments.

Before joining Century Park, Bacon spent more than 15 years sourcing and executing lower middle-market private equity transactions across the industrial, manufacturing, business services, and consumer products sectors. Century Park says he also worked closely with portfolio-company management teams and boards on strategic growth initiatives.

His prior private-equity roles included P4G Capital in San Francisco and Bunker Hill Capital in Boston. He began his career as an Analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York. Bacon earned a B.A. with Honors in Economics from Bucknell University; his LinkedIn profile also lists Bucknell University from 2003 to 2007, Series 7 and Series 63 certifications, and French language experience.

At Century Park, Bacon currently sits on the board of Green Summit Landscape Group, a platform focused on building a full-service landscape, water, and snow management organization in the United States.

• Century Park targets “healthy, profitable, middle market companies with revenues of $20-$100 million” for initial platform investments.
• The firm prefers businesses owned by the people who operate them and says it does not typically buy from other professional investor groups.
• Typical platform criteria include $3 million-$15 million of EBITDA, headquarters in the U.S. or Canada, $10 million-$40 million of equity investment, historical and projected growth, predictable revenue streams, manageable cyclicality, barriers to entry, diversified customers, and sustainable competitive advantage.
• Sector focus is business services, specialty manufacturing, and consumer products and services. Nat’s personal sector experience aligns with industrial, manufacturing, business services, and consumer-product companies.
• Century Park describes itself as a growth-oriented investor in smaller middle-market companies that are profitable, have internal and acquisition-driven growth opportunities, and occupy a defensible niche.
• The firm’s approach emphasizes operational and strategic value creation, including buy-and-build acquisition programs, process improvements, infrastructure additions, and use of executive operating partners.