Quarton Partners advises Galco Industrial Electronics in its sale to AEA Investors.

Galco Industrial Electronics is a leading distributor of industrial electronics for automation, control and motion applications. The Company has established one of the most complete product offerings in the industry, factory-authorized for over one million products from over 150 product lines. Galco’s product portfolio includes components such as drives, relays, contactors, circuit breakers, switches and numerous others, serving applications for controlled power, speed, velocity, torque, position, sequence, interpolation, test, measurement and data acquisition. The Company also provides a full suite of engineering and repair services, creating a total support solution for its customers.

AEA Investors LP was founded in 1968 by the Rockefeller, Mellon, and Harriman family interests and S.G. Warburg & Co. as a private investment vehicle for a select group of industrial family offices with substantial assets. AEA’s active individual investors (the “Participants”) include an extraordinary network of more than 75 highly successful business executives, industrial families and former government leaders. Today, AEA’s over 65 investment professionals operate globally with offices in New York, Connecticut, London, Munich, Hong Kong and Shanghai. The firm manages funds that have over $6 billion of invested and committed capital including the leveraged buyouts of middle market companies and small businesses and mezzanine and senior debt investing. AEA Private Equity invests across four sectors: value added industrial products, specialty chemicals, consumer products/retail and services.