Houlihan Lokey Advises MSI Express

Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce that MSI Express (MSI), a portfolio company of HCI Equity Partners (HCI), has been acquired by Nonantum Capital Partners (Nonantum).

Founded in 2008, MSI is a leading contract manufacturing and packaging company for the United States’ top food and beverage brands. MSI operates within 15 strategically located manufacturing and packaging facilities across the Midwestern and Southern U.S.

HCI Equity Partners is a lower middle market private equity firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., focused on partnering with family- and founder-owned distribution, manufacturing, and service companies.

Founded in 2018 by a team of experienced private equity and management executives as a spin-out from Charlesbank Capital Partners, Nonantum is a Boston-based middle-market private equity firm. It focuses on investing in family- and founder-owned businesses, corporate carve-outs, and complex situations where personal partnership is critical and opportunities exist for significant equity value creation.

Houlihan Lokey served as financial advisor to MSI Express and assisted in structuring and negotiating the transaction on its behalf.

This highly successful transaction further solidifies Houlihan Lokey as the advisor of choice to growing and differentiated manufacturing and supply chain companies across the consumer products industry. In North America, this transaction follows recent notable success stories, including the sale of Belvika Trade & Packaging to Coregistics and the sale of Bar Bakers to TruFood.

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