Granite Partners is a Canadian private equity firm that targets profitable, well-managed, manufacturing and service companies with sales in the $10 million - $100 million range. Granite's goal is to help entrepreneurs and owner-managers build upon and unlock the value they have created in their businesses.

Granite Partners is led by Doug Buchanan, a principal investing specialist with over 20 years of banking, corporate finance and M&A experience. He is formerly a director and Chairman of the Board of General Donlee Income Fund, a TSX listed company. He was also the President of Lincoln Capital Corporation.

He leads a group of committed investors experienced in the areas of banking and corporate finance, private and public markets and business strategy. These investors are highly successful business people with involvement in the real estate, manufacturing and service industries.

A predecessor of Granite Partners recently completed a $100,000,000 IPO of one of its business investments.
Granite Partners is currently looking for exceptional investment opportunities.

Granite Partners current fund is known as Granite Partners II L.P. The general partner is Granite Corporation and there are several limited partners.

Granite Partners specializes in three types of transactions:

• Estate planning transactions

  Granite engineers and provides funding for these unique situations. These transactions provide business owners with an opportunity to liquefy a substantial portion of the value that they have built up in their businesses while allowing them to retain a significant ownership position in their companies.
  

• Management Buy-outs

Granite backs senior management teams who have the opportunity but not the resources or financial expertise to acquire businesses they have run on behalf of other corporations or third party owners.

• Shotguns

When time is of the essence, Granite provides all of the required resources to get the deal done when the buy/sell provisions of a shareholders' agreement have been initiated.