Comvest Partners

Comvest Partners is a private investment firm that has provided equity and debt capital to well-positioned middle-market companies throughout North America since 2000. Through its private equity, direct lending, and opportunistic credit investment platforms, Comvest offers tailored investment solutions across the capital structure along with deep industry expertise, operating resources, a collaborative approach, and significant transaction experience as an active investor. As of 2025, Comvest manages $16.6 billion in assets, with over $19.2 billion invested since inception. The firm is based in West Palm Beach, Florida, with offices in Chicago and New York City.

Comvest's private equity platform focuses on control investments in market-leading middle-market companies across various industries, including consumer, healthcare services, infrastructure and field services, and professional and managed services. The firm seeks to deploy up to $150 million of equity per investment, supporting founder and family transitions, leveraged recapitalizations, corporate divestitures, buyouts, complex situations, and public-to-private transactions.

In August 2025, Comvest's direct lending platform, Comvest Credit Partners, entered into a strategic partnership with Manulife Investment Management, resulting in Manulife acquiring a 75% interest in Comvest Credit Partners. This partnership combines Comvest's decades of direct lending experience with Manulife's global scale and sponsor network, enhancing the platform's ability to provide flexible financing solutions to both sponsored and non-sponsored middle-market companies. The combined platform, now known as Manulife | Comvest Credit Partners, offers creative and flexible private credit solutions, leveraging deep origination channels, rigorous underwriting discipline, and global distribution to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns across market cycles.

Comvest's investment philosophy emphasizes a collaborative approach, working closely with management teams and private equity sponsors to build businesses for lasting growth. The firm's diversified global investor base includes foundations, insurance companies, public and private pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, asset managers, consultants, and family offices in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Comvest employs approximately 130 professionals across its offices in West Palm Beach, Chicago, and New York City.