Rashid Lattouf

Rashid Lattouf is a Managing Director at Staple Street Capital, a New York-based private equity firm focused on middle-market companies. Staple Street’s team page says he is responsible for identifying and evaluating investment opportunities, performing due diligence, and working with portfolio-company management teams to create value.

Before joining Staple Street, Lattouf was a Director at Black Diamond Capital Management, where he focused on private equity, special situations, and distressed-debt investments across multiple industries. His work there included sourcing, diligence, structuring, execution, and portfolio-company value creation.

Earlier in his career, Lattouf worked in the Restructuring & Recapitalization group at Jefferies. MarketScreener also lists prior experience as an analyst at Peachtree Equity Investment Management. He received a B.B.A. from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.

• Staple Street’s public positioning is “Partnering at inflection points,” with a focus on companies that can “capitalize on transformative opportunities.”
• The firm targets established middle-market businesses rather than seed-stage startups: $75 million to $500 million of revenue and $50 million to $200+ million of equity per transaction.
• Ownership style is flexible, but Staple Street says it is typically a control investor.
• Preferred transaction types include family-owned business acquisitions, corporate carve-outs, industry consolidations, take-privates, operational improvement stories, reorganizations, recapitalizations, complex situations, and special situations.
• The firm emphasizes motivated management teams, operational resources, speed and certainty of closing, and situations where strategic or operational change can improve profitability and long-term growth.
• Lattouf’s own background aligns with this strategy: private equity, special situations, distressed debt, restructuring, recapitalization, and hands-on work with management teams.