Brookside Capital Partners is pleased to announce an additional subordinated debt and equity investment in Lafayette Instrument Company (“Lafayette”), a portfolio company of Branford Castle Partners, to facilitate its acquisition of Actimetrics.
Founded in 1998 by academic neuroscientists and headquartered in Wilmette, IL, Actimetrics is the leader in scientific instrumentation for circadian biology and animal behavioral neuroscience. It has created tools for the study of animal behavior that integrate seamlessly with the experiment and by working directly with many different behavioral scientists, Actimetrics has designed its systems around the experiments that are currently driving the field and have tailored the features of each program to current lab practices. In addition, it has pioneered a number of analysis methods for behavioral experiments that has resulted in a suite of easy-to-use programs that facilitate high-throughput testing, and yet are flexible enough to accommodate new experimental designs.
Founded in 1947 and headquartered in Lafayette, IN, Lafayette is a developer, manufacturer and distributor of polygraph, neuroscience and human evaluation instruments. It is the global leader in polygraph instruments and software and sells its systems to federal law enforcement and government security agencies, as well as to state and local law enforcement agencies. Lafayette is also a leader in providing turnkey solutions to researchers at the most prestigious universities and research institutes around the globe.
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Founded in 2001, Brookside Capital Partners has invested over $1.2 billion across four funds. The Firm is a leading provider of debt and minority equity to small and mid-sized companies throughout the United States. We invest in both sponsored and non-sponsored transactions, providing flexible capital solutions to support buyouts, leveraged recapitalizations, strategic acquisitions and growth capital.
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