Key Takeaways
- • Comvest Partners has rehired Eric Shields as a Principal in its private equity group, where he will source, evaluate, execute and monitor private equity investments, according to a Business Wire release dated July 9, 2024.
- • Shields previously worked at Comvest from 2016 to 2021, most recently as a Vice President, and joins from Datavest Partners, a Fort Lauderdale-based private equity firm.
- • Shields brings more than a decade of middle-market private equity experience and previously led underwriting and portfolio management of consumer and services companies, including RugsUSA and Lasko.
- • Comvest, which manages $12.3 billion in assets, described the hire as expanding its growing private equity team under head of the Private Equity strategy Maneesh Chawla.
Summary
Comvest Partners, a West Palm Beach-based middle-market private equity and credit investment firm, has announced that Eric Shields has rejoined the firm as a Principal in its private equity group, according to a Business Wire release. In the role, Shields is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, executing and monitoring private equity investments.
Shields previously spent time at Comvest from 2016 to 2021, most recently as a Vice President. He joins from Datavest Partners, a Fort Lauderdale-based private equity firm, and brings more than a decade of middle-market private equity investment experience across a broad range of industry sectors. During his earlier tenure, he led market, business, financial underwriting and ongoing portfolio management of consumer and services companies, and played integral roles in key transactions including RugsUSA, a leading rugs e-retailer, and Lasko, a leading retailer of portable fans and other home comfort products.
Maneesh Chawla, a Managing Partner of Comvest and head of the Private Equity strategy, said the firm was delighted to welcome Shields back and that his management experience and sector and transaction expertise would support the growing private equity team. Chawla said Shields would lead opportunity development and help portfolio companies execute strategic and operational initiatives. Shields said he was thrilled to return, describing Comvest as a firm with a well-earned reputation as an outstanding private equity partner.
Shields' earlier career also includes roles at H.I.G. Capital and Stephens Inc. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the University of Florida.
Comvest, which has provided capital to middle-market companies in North America since 2000, operates private equity, direct lending and special opportunities platforms. The firm says it manages $12.3 billion in assets and has invested over $12.8 billion since inception, with offices in West Palm Beach, Chicago and New York.
Shields previously spent time at Comvest from 2016 to 2021, most recently as a Vice President. He joins from Datavest Partners, a Fort Lauderdale-based private equity firm, and brings more than a decade of middle-market private equity investment experience across a broad range of industry sectors. During his earlier tenure, he led market, business, financial underwriting and ongoing portfolio management of consumer and services companies, and played integral roles in key transactions including RugsUSA, a leading rugs e-retailer, and Lasko, a leading retailer of portable fans and other home comfort products.
Maneesh Chawla, a Managing Partner of Comvest and head of the Private Equity strategy, said the firm was delighted to welcome Shields back and that his management experience and sector and transaction expertise would support the growing private equity team. Chawla said Shields would lead opportunity development and help portfolio companies execute strategic and operational initiatives. Shields said he was thrilled to return, describing Comvest as a firm with a well-earned reputation as an outstanding private equity partner.
Shields' earlier career also includes roles at H.I.G. Capital and Stephens Inc. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the University of Florida.
Comvest, which has provided capital to middle-market companies in North America since 2000, operates private equity, direct lending and special opportunities platforms. The firm says it manages $12.3 billion in assets and has invested over $12.8 billion since inception, with offices in West Palm Beach, Chicago and New York.
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