Private equity CEO Scott Johnson has logged thousands of miles with his private plane, helping 9/11 vets and critically ill children along the way. Prior to COVID, Mount Kisco resident Scott Johnson, who is the CEO and founder of Westchester-based private equity firm SJ Partners, flew his six-passenger Piper Meridian turboprop to attend industry conferences and family trips to Mackinac Island, a vacation spot that accepts only private planes.

SJ Partners, LLC with operating partner Aaron Kleinhandler and his investment affiliate ASLK Investments LLC, Northcreek Mezzanine, and Everside Capital Partners, LLC have made an equity investment into CentralBDC, LLC, a Boca Raton, Florida based Outsourced Business Development Company that provides lead management services to auto dealerships nationwide. The new Company will be named CentralBDC, Enterprises, LLC (CentralBDC). CentralBDC is the [...]

PRESS RELEASE Westbrook Maine, April 4, 2018   —Native Maine Operations Inc., d/b/a Native Maine Produce and Specialty Foods Operations (“Native Maine”), a portfolio company of SJ Partners LLC and RLJ Equity Partners LLC has acquired the wholesale operations of Golden Harvest, Inc. (“Golden Harvest”) of Kittery, Maine. Jim and Carla Spencer, owners of Golden Harvest [...]

PRESS RELEASE BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 24, 2017  — SJ Partners, LLC (“SJP”), through its affiliate SJ Capital Partners VI LLC and RLJ Equity Partners LLC (“RLJ”), an affiliate of the RLJ Companies, and has acquired majority control of Native Maine Produce and Specialty Foods, LLC (“Native Maine”), Maine’s largest fresh foodservice distributor. “We are thrilled to [...]

Click To View October 29, 2015: Global M&A Network, honored the winners the AMERICAS M&A ATLAS AWARDS in forty-eight “Deals”, four “Dealmaker Team”, eighteen “Outstanding Firms” of the year categories, along with Mr. Euan Rellie, senior managing director and co-founder of BDA Partners, as the recipient of the “Leadership Achievement” award during [...]

NEW YORK, June 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ACG New York, the largest association of middle market deal making professionals in New York, announces winners of the 5th Annual ACG New York Champion's Award at event held on June 18th, 2015 at the Metropolitan Club in New York City. The annual tribute recognizes and honors the [...]

New York, NY, June 1, 2015 -- SJ Partners, LLC (“SJP”), through its affiliate SJ Capital Partners V LLC, has formed Best Made Toys LLC to acquire Best Made Toys International Inc. of Toronto and Best Made Toys Global Limited of Hong Kong (“BMT” or the “Company”).  BMT is a leading provider of private label plush [...]

SJ Partners, LLC (“SJP”), through its affiliate SJ Capital Partners III LLC, has formed Osmotics LLC to acquire majority control of Osmotics Corporation (“Osmotics” or the “Company”) from BHMS Investments, LP. Osmotics is a leading prestige cosmecutical skincare brand that was founded in 1993 by President Francine Porter who will continue, as Founder and President and [...]

SJ Partners Exits Spectrio to The Riverside Company After Twelve-fold Growth in EBITDA New York, NY, October 15, 2014 -- Following a twelve-fold growth in profits driven by the successful completion of fourteen add-on acquisitions during its investment, SJ Partners, LLC (“SJP”) has sold its stake in Spectrio LLC, one of the nation’s leading full-service audio [...]

Tampa, Florida, Dec. 11, 2013 Spectrio, an SJ Partners portfolio company and one of the nation's leading full-service audio and video marketing companies, announces the acquisition of Vericom Corporation, a 25-year veteran in healthcare communications. Spectrio will seamlessly incorporate Vericom's SoundCare® on-hold messaging and ChannelCare® digital signage into Spectrio's array of communications products currently focused in [...]