CODI vs CSWI

D/B/A Compass Diversified Holdings Shares of Beneficial Intere

Compass Diversified is a private equity firm specializing in add on acquisitions, buyouts, industry consolidation, recapitalization, late stage and middle market investments. It seeks to invest in niche industrial or branded consumer companies, manufacturing, distribution, consumer products, business services sector, safety & security, electronic components, food, foodservice. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in North America. It seeks to invest between $100 million and $800 million in companies with an EBITDA between $15 million to $80 million. It seeks to acquire controlling ownership interests in its portfolio companies and can make additional platform acquisitions. The firm prefer to have majority stake in companies. The firm invests through its balance sheet and typically holds investments between five to seven years. Compass Diversified was founded in 2005 and is based in Westport, Connecticut with an additional office in Irvine, California.

CSW Industrials Inc.

CSW Industrials, Inc. operates as a diversified industrial company in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments, Industrial Products and Specialty Chemicals. The Industrial Products segment offers specialty mechanical products; grilles, registers, and diffusers; fire and smoke protection products; architecturally specified building products; and storage, filtration, and application equipment for use with its specialty chemicals and other products for general industrial applications. The Specialty Chemicals segment offers lubricants and greases, drilling compounds, anti-seize compounds, chemical formulations, degreasers and cleaners, penetrants, pipe thread sealants, fire stopping sealants and caulks, and adhesives/solvent cement. The company serves the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning; and plumbing, refrigeration, commercial construction, electrical, rail car and locomotive, cement, energy, infrastructure drilling and boring, mining, oil and gas, power generation, steel, water well drilling, and general industrial markets. It sells its products under the RectorSeal No. 5, Kopr Kote, KATS Coatings, Jet-Lube, Smoke Guard, Safe-T-Switch, Mighty Bracket, Balco, Whitmore Rail, Air Sentry, Oil Safe, Deacon, Leak Freeze, Greco, and TRUaire brands. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.