Candlewood Partners Acquires Right Street Advisors, Expanding Firm's Reach Into Sell-Side Advisory And Offerings to Current Clients

Candlewood Partners, a boutique investment banking and advisory firm serving middle market companies since 2001, today announced the acquisition of Right Street Advisors, a boutique firm focused on M&A advisory for businesses in the Manufacturing and Industrials sectors. This adds to an existing platform that spans debt advisory and capital raising solutions, restructuring, lender services, and M&A execution. The addition brings Candlewood's deal team to 17 professionals across its South Florida, Cleveland, and Chicago offices.

The Right Street team brings deep sell-side and buy-side M&A experience across a range of manufacturing sub-sectors, including aerospace and defense, medical and life sciences, chemicals and coatings, equipment, electronics, plastics, paper and packaging, consumer products, food and beverage, building materials, and niche manufacturing segments. Ron Krudo joins Candlewood as Managing Director to lead this division, alongside Tyler Krudo, as Senior Associate.

“The acquisition of Right Street is a natural fit for Candlewood,” said Natan Milgrom, Managing Director. “A dedicated M&A advisory practice enables us to provide a greater breadth of services to family and founder-owned businesses, while bringing more deal flow to our private equity sponsor, lender, and family office relationships. And most importantly, Ron and his team share Candlewood’s core values of high integrity and dedication to client service. We are thrilled to welcome Right Street to the Candlewood family!”

“Candlewood has built a 25-year reputation for integrity and results in the middle market, and that's exactly the kind of partner we wanted for our clients,” said Ron Krudo, Managing Director. “Joining forces with a firm of this caliber means even more resources and reach for manufacturing and industrial businesses in the middle market. We're looking forward to building on the relationships we've developed over the years, now as part of the Candlewood team.”

Right Street Advisors will continue to operate under its name as a division of Candlewood Partners.

About Candlewood Partners

Candlewood Partners is a Cleveland, South Florida, and Chicago-based boutique investment bank and advisory firm. Our focus is middle market capital raising, restructuring advisory, lender services, and M&A advisory. Since 2001, Candlewood has supported the needs of private businesses, small cap public companies, private equity and independent sponsors, and private credit lenders. We leverage decades of experience to maximize value for our clients, successfully navigating complex engagements across diverse industries and markets worldwide.

Contact:Natan Milgrom ndm@candlewoodpartners.com / 216.472.6647

Ron Krudo ronk@rightstreetadvisors.com / 407.474.4963

Hallie Berk hmb@candlewoodpartners.com / 561.928.0665