Shawn Grewal

Shawn Grewal is a Vice President of Private Equity at DCA Partners, where he is responsible for leading the evaluation and execution of new investments for the firm’s private equity fund. DCA Partners describes itself as a diversified financial-services firm with M&A, private equity, and real-estate investment activities, founded in 2001 and based in the Sacramento area.

Before joining DCA, Grewal worked at Oak Hill Capital, a Bay Area middle-market private equity firm. At Oak Hill, he evaluated and executed leveraged buyout and growth-equity transactions across the Media & Communications and Services industries, and DCA states that he supported four platform acquisitions plus several add-on acquisitions for portfolio companies.

Earlier in his career, Grewal was in the Mergers & Acquisitions group at Morgan Stanley. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of California, Los Angeles; his LinkedIn profile also lists UCLA activities including Bruin Asset Management, the Undergraduate Business Society, an investment-banking workshop, and the Sharpe Fellows program.

• DCA’s stated investment criteria are lower-middle-market companies with $5 million to $20 million of EBITDA and flexibility around majority and minority ownership.
• The firm says it invests in “established companies that aspire to become market leaders” and that can benefit from both DCA’s capital and operating experience.
• DCA is willing to invest across structures, including minority non-control growth capital and conventional buyouts.
• The firm looks for “well-run, established businesses led by strong and ethical management teams” with meaningful future-growth potential.
• DCA’s private equity approach emphasizes growth-oriented management teams, aligned incentives, operational support, and M&A consolidation where appropriate.
• Grewal’s prior Oak Hill experience adds a relevant emphasis on middle-market buyouts and growth equity in Media & Communications and Services, especially fiber / communications infrastructure and technology-enabled services.