Houlihan Lokey Advises FoodScience

Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce that FoodScience Corp., a portfolio company of Wind Point Partners (Wind Point), has been acquired by Morgan Stanley Capital Partners.

Based in Vermont, FoodScience is a formulator, manufacturer, and marketer of high-quality nutritional supplements for humans and pets. The company sells its product portfolio through practitioner channels, direct-to-consumer, e-commerce, and retail distribution.

Wind Point is a Chicago-based private equity investment firm with approximately $6 billion in assets under management. Wind Point focuses on partnering with top-caliber management teams to acquire well-positioned middle-market businesses where it can establish a clear path to value creation. The firm targets investments in the business services, consumer products, and industrial products sectors. Within consumer products, Wind Point is an active investor in the pet and animal nutrition industry. In addition to FoodScience, selected prior and current investments include Assisi Pet Care, Targeted PetCare, Petmate, and Pestell Nutrition.

Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, is a leading middle-market private equity platform established in 1986 that focuses on privately negotiated equity and equity-related investments primarily in North America. Morgan Stanley Capital Partners seeks to create value in portfolio companies primarily in a series of subsectors in the business and consumer, healthcare, and industrial services markets with an emphasis on driving significant organic and acquisition growth through an operationally focused approach.

Houlihan Lokey served as the financial advisor to FoodScience with respect to the transaction. This deal represents another successful transaction for Houlihan Lokey in the consumer space.

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