Industrial Growth Partners Completes Sale of Prince & Izant to TransDigm
The sale concludes an ownership period in which Prince & Izant more than doubled EBITDA and expanded margins.
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Industrial Growth Partners completed its $1.066 billion sale of Prince & Izant to TransDigm (TDG) on September 28, 2026.
Industrial Growth Partners recapitalized Prince & Izant with management and outside investors in June 2022. During its ownership, the specialty materials business completed three add-on acquisitions, more than doubled EBITDA and expanded margins. It also invested in manufacturing capacity and broadened its presence in aerospace and defense, medical, power generation and data center infrastructure markets.
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Positive
- Moderate point$1.066 billion sale of Prince & Izant to TransDigm completed on September 28, 2026. 1.7% of market cap
- Minor pointEBITDA more than doubled at Prince & Izant during Industrial Growth Partners' ownership.
- Minor pointMargins expanded at Prince & Izant during Industrial Growth Partners' ownership.
- Minor pointThree add-on acquisitions completed by Prince & Izant during Industrial Growth Partners' ownership.
Negative
- None.
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IGP, together with members of the management team, selling shareholders, and certain outside investors, recapitalized Prince & Izant in June 2022. Since then, IGP partnered closely with management to develop and execute a strategic growth plan focused on strengthening the Company's leadership and organizational capabilities, expanding its product portfolio and end market exposure, and investing in manufacturing capacity. Key initiatives included augmenting the executive team, building out engineering, new product development and global sales resources, expanding vertical integration, and investing in manufacturing capacity and automation. The Company also completed three strategic add-on acquisitions (Clad Metal Specialties (2025), Kay & Associates (2023), and Peltier Manufacturing (2022)), which further broadened its product technologies and applications. As a result of these initiatives, Prince & Izant more than doubled EBITDA and significantly expanded margins during IGP's ownership, while meaningfully increasing its presence in attractive end markets including aerospace & defense, medical, power generation, and data center infrastructure. Together, these investments transformed Prince & Izant into a larger, more diversified specialty materials platform and further strengthened its market leadership.
Matt Brandenburg, CEO of Prince & Izant, commented: "IGP was an exceptional partner, providing the resources, industrial expertise, and strategic guidance that enabled us to accelerate growth, expand our capabilities, and better serve our customers. Together, we invested in new products, added key talent, and completed acquisitions that strengthened our platform across our most attractive end markets. I am incredibly proud of what our team accomplished during our partnership with IGP and am excited about the opportunities ahead. We believe Prince & Izant is exceptionally well positioned for its next chapter of growth now that it is part of TransDigm."
Dave DiFranco, Managing Partner at IGP, added: "Prince & Izant represents exactly the kind of business we seek to partner with at IGP: a market leader with differentiated, mission-critical products, deep technical expertise, and a world-class management team. Over the course of our partnership, we worked alongside Matt and his team to significantly scale the Company, broaden its capabilities, and meaningfully deepen its exposure to some of the most attractive and critical end markets in the industrial economy, including aerospace & defense, medical, power generation, and data center infrastructure. Today, Prince & Izant is a substantially larger and more strategically valuable business. We are extremely proud of what Matt and the entire Prince & Izant team have accomplished and are confident TransDigm will be an outstanding partner for the Company's next chapter of growth."
Original Acquisition Details: On June 29, 2022, Industrial Growth Partners VI, L.P., in partnership with management and certain outside investors, acquired Prince & Izant, the second platform investment in IGP's sixth fund. IGP acquired the Company from the Brandenburg family, who retained a significant minority equity position.
Industrial Growth Partners, founded in 1997, is a
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How much did Industrial Growth Partners sell Prince & Izant for, and when did the TransDigm deal close?
Industrial Growth Partners sold Prince & Izant to TransDigm for $1.066 billion. The transaction closed on September 28, 2026.
Which companies did Prince & Izant acquire during Industrial Growth Partners' ownership?
Prince & Izant completed three add-on acquisitions: Peltier Manufacturing in 2022, Kay & Associates in 2023 and Clad Metal Specialties in 2025.