March 11, 2025

New York, NY – Kinderhook Industries, LLC (“Kinderhook”) is proud to earn a position in the top 20 on the 2024 HEC Paris-Dow Jones MidMarket Buyout Performance Rankings. This marks the second year in a row that Kinderhook has been recognized in the top 20 by HEC Paris and Dow Jones.

In this ranking, the HEC Paris Business School and Dow Jones evaluated the performance of over 2,600 funds across 649 private equity firms with investments in the United States, Europe, or globally that raised between $1.5 billion and $5 billion cumulatively between 2011 and 2020, representing $2.29 trillion of aggregate equity volume. The ranking utilized a proprietary methodology that analyzed performance from all relevant funds into an overall score to assess aggregate performance. Read more about the ranking and methodology here.

“Kinderhook is honored by HEC Paris and Dow Jones’ recognition in 2023 and now again in 2024,” said Chris Michalik, Rob Michalik and Tom Tuttle, Managing Directors at Kinderhook.  “The improved ranking over last year is a testament to Kinderhook’s consistent approach to long-term value creation and to the quality of the people and companies that we partner with every day.  We are very grateful for the support our investors have given us over the past 22 years, and we look forward to continuing those partnerships for many years to come.”

This ranking was published on March 6, 2025, and is the opinion of HEC-Dow Jones and not that of Kinderhook. Kinderhook did not provide compensation for this third-party rating.