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Huron Capital’s Rampart Exterior Services Partners With Port Enterprises in Texas

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Port is Rampart’s second investment since its first acquisition in August 2024

Leading lower middle-market private equity firm Huron Capital (“Huron”) announced that its portfolio company, Rampart Exterior Services (“Rampart,” or the “Company”), has acquired Port Enterprises, Ltd. (“Port”). Port is Rampart’s second acquisition since first partnering with Independent Roofing Systems in August, 2024. The partnership with Port further enhances Rampart’s customer base and geographic footprint.

Port is a commercial roofing services company based in Texas with operations across the Austin, San Antonio, and Corpus Christi markets. Founded in 1963, Port has built a strong reputation for delivering quality re-roofing solutions for education, government, industrial, and other commercial customers. Port continues to be managed locally by the experienced leadership team of Jennifer McCauley, Stephen McCauley, Cody Comstock, and Jake Comstock.

“We are thrilled to partner with Stephen, Jennifer, Cody, Jake, and the entire Port team. Port’s core principles of safety, quality, customer service, and reliability are deeply aligned with our vision and remain at the forefront of our operations as we continue to grow,” said Gabe Mesanza, CEO of Rampart.

“Rampart and Huron were natural fits for us at Port,” said Jennifer McCauley of Port. “We’re confident that this partnership will provide meaningful opportunities for our team to succeed in an environment that values its people.”

“It has been an honor to work with Port, a fourth-generation, family-owned business with deep roots in the growing Texas market. This acquisition adds significant scale to the Rampart platform in a key region, with a like-minded partner who is committed to excellence in the skilled trades,” said Brian Rassel, Partner at Huron Capital.

About Rampart

Rampart Exterior Services was launched by Huron Capital in 2024 as an ExecFactor initiative focused on re-roofing, roofing repair, waterproofing, maintenance, and other exterior restoration services. The company serves diverse commercial end markets including government, education, healthcare, life sciences, data centers, manufacturing, and other sectors. For more information, please visit our website at www.rampartexteriors.com.

About Huron Capital

Huron Capital is a leading lower middle-market private equity firm focused on partnering with outstanding management teams to build leading service companies. Through HCP Services, we bring a people-first and thematic approach to investing in mission-critical service companies in the infrastructure, facility and residential sectors where we have a long history of success, proven playbooks and extensive resources. We seek to make control investments in leading service businesses with $20 million to $200 million in revenue.

With our operational resources, we empower our management partners to drive significant growth through initiatives such as professionalizing operations, improving service offerings, executing M&A strategies, and accessing new markets. We pride ourselves on an unwavering commitment to candor, trust, accountability, and transparency in our relationships with management teams, investors, advisors, and employees.

Founded in Detroit in 1999, over the past 25 years we have acquired more than 290 companies through seven investment funds, managing over $2 billion in capital on behalf of a global institutional investor base. Through our proprietary ExecFactor® program, we utilize a proactive, thesis-driven investment process to identify the best potential management teams and investment opportunities in our core sectors. For more information, please visit www.huroncapital.com

About ExecFactor®

ExecFactor® is Huron Capital’s proprietary, thematic investment strategy where we underwrite an industry and partner with an executive to deploy our buy-and-build investment model. This strategy brings together our sector focus, deep industry relationships, committed capital and repeatable buy-and-build approach to create a new platform investment.

Recently closed ExecFactor® investments include Rampart Exterior Services, a provider of commercial roofing and building exterior services, Criticore, a provider of mission-critical, highly technical electrical services, and Exigent, a provider of critical HVAC, plumbing, and other mechanical system repair, maintenance, and replacement services to complex facility operations for healthcare, education, industrial, government, and other commercial customers.

Recently exited ExecFactor® investments include ExperiGreen, a residential lawn care services provider, Sciens Building Solutions, a prominent full-service commercial fire and life safety company and Pueblo Mechanical & Controls, a premier commercial HVAC and plumbing services company.

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