Gryphon Investors has acquired JENSEN HUGHES from Huron Capital Partners

Lincoln International (“Lincoln”), a leading global mid-market investment bank, is pleased to announce that Gryphon Investors (“Gryphon”) has completed the acquisition of JENSEN HUGHES (the “Company”), the world’s #1 consulting firm specializing in fire protection engineering, fire code consulting and related life safety services in commercial, institutional and industrial facilities. Lincoln served as a financial advisor to Gryphon. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Based in Baltimore, Maryland, JENSEN HUGHES offers a full suite of non-discretionary, mission-critical services including fire safety systems design and analysis, code consulting, risk assessment, forensic investigation and testing, security, and research and development. The Company provides services across a diversified set of 11 end markets and to a broad base of blue-chip customers including more than half of Fortune 500 companies. The Company also has an expansive geographic reach across 40 offices in North America and nine offices in Asia and the Middle East and provides services in 100 countries.

Phil Rogers said, “Management is very excited to be partnering with Gryphon to support our efforts to continue achieving strong growth organically and through add-on acquisitions as we maintain our focus on safety. Gryphon is one of the premier investors in the engineering services space and has a large capital base from which to support our successful add-on acquisition strategy.”

About JENSEN HUGHES

JENSEN HUGHES is the global leader in specialty engineering consulting services for the built environment. The Company’s engineers, consultants and scientists develop innovative and cost-effective solutions involving fire protection systems design and analysis, code consulting, hazard and risk assessments, forensic engineering, fire research, development and testing, commissioning and security services. Operating from offices in North America, Asia and the Middle East, JENSEN HUGHES consulting teams participate on projects around the world. For more information, please visit www.jensenhughes.com.

About Gryphon Investors

Based in San Francisco, Gryphon Investors is a leading private equity (“PE”) firm focused on profitably growing and competitively enhancing mid-market companies in partnership with experienced management. For numerous consecutive quarters and years, Gryphon has been ranked in Preqin’s prestigious quarterly PE report as one of North America’s top-decile firms based on consistency of strong investment returns. With approximately $1.8 billion of cumulative equity commitments, the firm has an extensive track record of leading equity investments of $35 million to $150 million per portfolio company with sales ranging from approximately $50 million to $500 million. Gryphon prioritizes investment opportunities where it can form proactive partnerships with owners and executives to build leading companies, utilizing Gryphon’s capital, specialized professional resources and operational expertise. For more information, please visit www.gryphoninvestors.com.

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