Granite Creek Capital Partners, a private investment firm based in Chicago, has made a USD15 million investment in Morrow Sodali, a provider of strategic advisory and shareholder services to corporate clients around the world.
Morrow Sodali provides corporate boards and executives with strategic advice and services relating to corporate governance, shareholder and bondholder communication and engagement, capital markets intelligence, proxy solicitation, shareholder activism and mergers and acquisitions.
Morrow Sodali will use the infusion from Granite Creek to continue making investments in its strategic growth initiatives. Mark Radzik, Managing Partner of Granite Creek, will serve on the Board of Morrow Sodali.
With its recently closed USD200 million FlexCap II fund, Granite Creek expects to invest in a total of 15-20 companies engaged in manufacturing, business services, healthcare and agribusiness. Granite Creek plays an active role with the leadership of its portfolio companies and serves as a company’s trusted advisor and partner.
“We are excited to partner with Morrow Sodali. They are a leader in providing clients across the globe with strategic advisory and dedicated service. With offices throughout the US, Latin America, Europe, and Australia, and the ability to provide its multi-national clients a full array of advisory services on shareholder matters, Morrow Sodali is a premier platform,” says Mark Radzik, “We are eager to support Alvise Recchi, Ron Knox, Maria Leftakis and the other leaders of Morrow Sodali in their continued building of the business.”
“We are extremely pleased to partner with Granite Creek,” says Alvise Recchi, Morrow Sodali’s Global CEO. “The Partners at Granite Creek are experienced entrepreneurs that understand our business and have deep experience in helping businesses grow.”
“Consistent with the approach and views of our family, which has a long history of leadership and entrepreneurial spirit, Granite Creek espouses a similar philosophy,” says Moroello Diaz della Vittoria Pallavicini of Holding Pallavicini and Fabrizio Arengi Bentivoglio of Fidia Holding, who run the two family offices that invested first in the Morrow Sodali, “Morrow Sodali is fortunate to have Granite Creek as a shareholder and board member.”
