Built to own the essential trades.
Damen Industries acquires and operates service and construction businesses — roofing, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, and specialty contracting — partnering with founders on regional consolidation and long-term ownership.
Operators first. Investors by structure.
Damen Industries is a private acquisition group built around a simple conviction: the best returns in the lower middle market come from owning essential businesses well — not from financial engineering alone.
We pursue platform acquisitions and regional roll-ups in the skilled trades and essential services, working alongside institutional lenders and equity partners on every transaction. Our structures are designed around continuity: seller rollover, earnouts tied to real performance, and employment agreements that keep the people who built the business at the center of it.
Post-close, we bring what most sellers in these industries have never had access to — modern cloud infrastructure, unified dispatch and financial systems, and disciplined integration playbooks — so that the business that took decades to build is positioned for its next decade.
- Headquarters
- Springfield, Illinois
- Model
- Independent sponsor · Institutional debt & equity partners
- Horizon
- Long-term ownership & regional consolidation
What we look for.
We move quickly and decisively inside a defined buy box — and we're direct when a business sits outside it.
Sectors
Roofing, electrical, plumbing, mechanical/HVAC, and specialty construction contractors; essential business services with recurring or contracted demand.
Financial Profile
Established SMBs with durable cash flow and clean adjusted EBITDA — typically $1M–$8M — with contracted backlog, service agreements, or repeat commercial relationships.
Geography
Midwest-anchored with national reach for the right platform. Priority to markets that support regional add-on consolidation.
Situation
Founder transitions, succession events, and owners seeking a partner for growth. Majority recapitalizations and full buyouts, with seller rollover welcomed.
Structure
Flexible, transparent structures: cash at close, rollover equity, performance earnouts, and seller financing where it aligns incentives on both sides of the table.
People
Management teams and field leaders who want to stay and build. Multi-year employment agreements for key operators are a feature of our deals, not an afterthought.
A disciplined process, run the same way every time.
Source & Underwrite
Direct outreach and intermediary relationships feed a rigorous screen. Every opportunity is underwritten against the same standard: quality of earnings, customer concentration, backlog durability, and key-person risk.
- Defined buy box, fast reads
- IOI / LOI within days, not months
- Clinical, respectful diligence
Close & Transition
We close what we sign. Financing is arranged with institutional lending partners before the LOI, and diligence milestones are set on the calendar at day one — so sellers always know where the deal stands.
- Committed capital partners
- Milestone-driven timelines
- Continuity for teams & customers
Integrate & Scale
Post-close, a proven integration playbook installs modern systems — cloud infrastructure, unified financials, dispatch, and reporting — and connects the platform to add-on acquisitions in the region.
- Cloud-native operating stack
- KPI dashboards from day 30
- Regional add-on pipeline
Two founders. Complementary by design.
Justin Jones
Justin leads deal origination, underwriting, and post-close integration. With a background spanning general contracting, logistics, and operations, he evaluates service and construction businesses the way an operator does — from the field up, not the spreadsheet down. He structures every transaction personally and stays accountable for it through integration.
Deal sourcing · Structuring & negotiation · Seller partnerships · Operational integration
Todd Sparkman
Todd architects and implements the technology stack behind every Damen platform. A cloud infrastructure engineer by trade, he replaces the fragmented systems typical of trade businesses with unified, cloud-native operations — financial consolidation, dispatch, reporting, and automation — turning acquired companies into scalable regional platforms.
Cloud infrastructure · Systems integration · Data & reporting · Operational automation
Two ways in.
Business Owners
If you've built a service or construction company and you're thinking about what comes next — full exit, partial sale, or a partner for regional growth — we'll give you a direct, honest read within days. No retrades, no games, and structures that respect what you built and the people who helped you build it.
Talk to Us ConfidentiallyIntermediaries & Advisors
Brokers, bankers, and advisors: we respond to every teaser inside our buy box, submit IOIs quickly, and communicate clearly when we pass. We protect your process, your fee, and your relationship with the seller — and we close what we put under LOI.
Send Us a DealEvery good deal starts with a straight conversation.
Whether you're an owner exploring a transition, an advisor with a mandate, or a capital partner evaluating the platform — reach out directly. We respond to every serious inquiry.
Springfield, Illinois
Inquiries
(312) 914-0309
deals@damenindustries.com
www.damenindustries.com