Houlihan Lokey Advises Graham Partners
Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce that Graham Partners (Graham), a middle-market private equity group based in Pennsylvania, has acquired Becklar LLC, a portfolio company of BV Investment Partners and a premier provider of tech-enabled wholesale enterprise monitoring services and industrial workforce safety technologies. Houlihan Lokey served as Graham’s buyside financial advisor and provided transaction advisory support via our FVA practice. The transaction closed on December 6, 2024.
Headquartered in Ogden, Utah, Becklar creates industry-leading connected tech-enabled security and safety solutions for enterprises and individuals, delivering a world-class comprehensive suite of lifesaving and life-enhancing technologies. Becklar leverages its platform of innovative technology and award-winning services to create customizable and comprehensive solutions to meet the connected safety needs of its enterprise and individual customers across a diverse range of industries under a primarily recurring subscription revenue model. Becklar further supports its customers by combining its operational scale across seven monitoring centers in the U.S. and Canada with its patented AI-enabled technology platform to deliver high-quality, cost-efficient monitoring and response services.
Graham was founded in 1988 as the initial corporate finance arm for The Graham Group businesses. Today, the firm seeks to invest through leveraged platform acquisitions, buy-and-builds, recapitalizations, restructurings, and growth buyouts in technology-driven companies operating in the industrial technology and advanced manufacturing sectors. With $6.2 billion in assets under management, Graham focuses on middle-market businesses and continues to seek partnerships with businesses focused on innovation.
Houlihan Lokey served as the buyside financial advisor to Graham. In addition, Houlihan Lokey's Transactions Advisory Services practice provided financial and tax due diligence as well as digital valuation creation services to the buyer during the transaction.
This transaction is another successful deal for our security and safety solutions team and demonstrates Houlihan Lokey’s continued leadership in advising companies within the remote monitoring and tech-enabled industrial and commercial safety services sector.
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