Houlihan Lokey Advises Berkshire Partners

Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce that Berkshire Partners LLC, a Boston-based private equity firm, has made a significant strategic growth investment in Electric Power Engineers, LLC (EPE), a leading energy and power systems engineering and consulting firm.

Berkshire Partners is a 100% employee-owned, multi-sector specialist investor in private and public equity. The firm’s private equity team invests in well-positioned, growing companies across business services and industrials, consumer, healthcare, and technology and communications. Berkshire Partners recently announced the close of its 11th private equity fund—Fund XI—with approximately $7.8 billion in commitments. Since inception, Berkshire Partners has made more than 150 private equity investments and has a strong history of collaborating with management teams to grow the companies in which it invests. The firm’s public equity group, Stockbridge, founded in 2007, manages a concentrated portfolio seeking attractive long-term investments.

EPE has deep expertise in renewables generation, energy storage, transmission and distribution, grid modernization, and digital transformation. The company collaborates with blue-chip global power and energy clients, providing a wide range of services and proprietary solutions that include utility engineering, grid and resource integration, reliability and compliance, and software and grid analytics.

Houlihan Lokey served as the exclusive financial advisor to Berkshire Partners. This transaction highlights Houlihan Lokey’s preeminent position and continued success advising clients in the power and utility services sector.

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