BlackArch Partners Advises on Recapitalization of Transportation Insight in Partnership with Ridgemont Equity Partners
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – BlackArch Partners is pleased to announce the partnership of Transportation Insight, LLC (“Transportation Insight” or the “Company”) with Ridgemont Equity Partners (“Ridgemont”).
Transportation Insight is a leading, technology-enabled 3PL provider. The Company primarily provides co-managed enterprise logistics solutions to a diverse and growing base of more than 300 customers across multiple end markets. Transportation Insight’s comprehensive suite of services, including carrier sourcing, freight payment and auditing, web-based transportation management, TL and LTL freight brokerage services and supply chain analytics integrates the Company into customers’ logistics supply chains and emphasizes a partnership of continuous improvement.
BlackArch was retained by the Company’s management team to serve as its financial adviser on the transaction. Transportation Insight sits squarely at the intersection of BlackArch’s Transportation & Logistics and Supply Chain Management industry verticals, two sectors of deep expertise and significant momentum.
Paul Thompson, Transportation Insight’s Founder and Chairman, commented, “If maximizing multiple objectives in a capital raise process and choosing the optimum investment partner are critical to your future business success, then I highly recommend BlackArch Partners. The BlackArch team was exceptional at every level and we had extensive partner engagement throughout the well-planned process. Every phase was executed effectively and efficiently and we received great counsel and advice from the BlackArch team as we evaluated potential partners to find the best cultural and strategic match. Their reputation in the capital markets for advising exceptional companies was very beneficial and our firm received an overwhelming response to BlackArch’s customized marketing strategy. BlackArch was simply the perfect firm to represent Transportation Insight.”
About Transportation Insight
Transportation Insight (www.transportationinsight.com), founded in 1999, is one of the largest and most experienced full-service, non-asset based 3PL providers in North America. The Company and its more than 215 employees serve clients across North America and overseas from its headquarters in Hickory, North Carolina and its five secondary offices in North Carolina, Arkansas and Georgia. Transportation Insight works with a broad range of manufacturers, retailers and distributors to identify and capture supply chain savings and efficiencies, allowing customers to more effectively manage logistics needs and optimize operations.
About Ridgemont Equity Partners
Ridgemont Equity Partners is a Charlotte-based private equity firm that provides buyout and growth capital to closely-held private companies and new business platforms. The firm focuses on investments of $25 million to $100 million, in industries in which it has deep expertise, including basic industries and services, energy, healthcare, and telecommunications / media / technology. Since 1993, the principals of Ridgemont have invested over $3 billion and demonstrated a proven, industry-focused model that has yielded consistently attractive returns. For additional information, please visit www.ridgemontep.com.
About BlackArch Partners
BlackArch Partners is a leading middle-market investment bank offering a full spectrum of advisory services to financial sponsors, private companies and diversified corporations BlackArch addresses the needs of entrepreneurs, founders and shareholders of private companies with specialized services that include M&A advisory, strategic advisory and private capital solutions. Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, with offices in Houston, TX, BlackArch features a total of 12 industry-focused practices that cover all sectors of interest to middle-market investors. BlackArch professionals have closed over 300 transactions in 16 countries on four continents. Please visit our website, www.blackarchpartners.com, for more details.
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