{"id":746678,"date":"2013-04-16T06:44:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T10:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pehub.com\/?p=196566"},"modified":"2013-04-16T06:44:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T10:44:17","slug":"prospect-partners-backs-velocity-aerospace-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/746678","title":{"rendered":"Prospect Partners Backs Velocity Aerospace Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prospect Partners<\/strong> has invested in <strong>Velocity Aerospace Group<\/strong>, a provider of aviation aftermarket services. Velocity Aerospace Group provides aviation maintenance, repair, and overhaul services to a global customer base of commercial air transports, corporate business aircraft, regional airlines, and helicopters. <\/p>\n<p><strong>PRESS RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prospect Partners, a leading private equity firm investing in smaller lower- middle-market companies, today announced that it has invested in Velocity Aerospace Group, Inc., a global provider of aviation aftermarket services.<br \/>\nVelocity Aerospace Group provides aviation maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services to a global customer base of commercial air transports, corporate business aircraft, regional airlines, and helicopters. The company, which operates FAA-certified repair stations in California and Florida, is known for its strong management, highly-skilled avionics technicians, dedicated customer service, modern facilities, and broad range of test, repair, and overhaul capabilities.<br \/>\n\u201cVelocity Aerospace Group is a niche market leader with exceptional potential for continued growth,\u201d said Maneesh Chawla, a Principal at the Chicago, Ill.-based Prospect Partners. \u201cWe look forward to supporting management in building a larger aviation MRO services company that leverages Velocity Aerospace\u2019s unique capabilities in avionics and in electronic instrumentation.\u201d<br \/>\nServing on the board of the holding company, Velocity Aerospace Holding Group, Inc., from Prospect Partners are Mr. Chawla, as Chairman, and Prospect Partners\u2019 Vice President Brad O\u2019Dell, as a Director.<br \/>\nAbout Prospect Partners, LLC Prospect Partners is a leading private equity firm investing in smaller lower-middle-market companies, managing $470 million across three funds. A highly experienced and active investor, Prospect Partners focuses exclusively on management-led leveraged recapitalizations and acquisitions of niche market leaders with revenues typically under $75 million. Since 1998, Prospect Partners has invested opportunistically nationwide in 100 companies in a broad range of niche manufacturing, distribution, and specialty service markets. Based in Chicago, Prospect Partners also has an office in Menlo Park, Calif. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pehub.com\/196566\/prospect-partners-bcks\/\">Prospect Partners Backs Velocity Aerospace Group<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pehub.com\/\">peHUB<\/a>.<\/p><div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/pehub\/news\/all?a=BFCcImy986g:tv6UOaNAyUk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/pehub\/news\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/pehub\/news\/all?a=BFCcImy986g:tv6UOaNAyUk:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/pehub\/news\/all?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/pehub\/news\/all?a=BFCcImy986g:tv6UOaNAyUk:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/pehub\/news\/all?i=BFCcImy986g:tv6UOaNAyUk:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/pehub\/news\/all?a=BFCcImy986g:tv6UOaNAyUk:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/pehub\/news\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/pehub\/news\/all?a=BFCcImy986g:tv6UOaNAyUk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/pehub\/news\/all?i=BFCcImy986g:tv6UOaNAyUk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/pehub\/news\/all?a=BFCcImy986g:tv6UOaNAyUk:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/pehub\/news\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/pehub\/news\/all?a=BFCcImy986g:tv6UOaNAyUk:l6gmwiTKsz0\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/pehub\/news\/all?d=l6gmwiTKsz0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/pehub\/news\/all\/~4\/BFCcImy986g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prospect Partners has invested in Velocity Aerospace Group, a provider of aviation aftermarket services. Velocity Aerospace Group provides aviation maintenance, repair, and overhaul services to a global customer base of commercial air transports, corporate business aircraft, regional airlines, and helicopters. PRESS RELEASE Prospect Partners, a leading private equity firm investing in smaller lower- middle-market companies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38fc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}