Shoreline Equity Partners
The Firm
Shoreline Equity Partners runs more than $750 million in committed capital from Florida and counts over seventy platform and add-on investments, about $1.9 billion in transaction value, on a team of twenty-some people. Its stated identity is a total stakeholder model, returns generated by building bigger, better businesses rather than by financial engineering or cost cutting, and it says so in exactly those words.
The firm hunts founder-owned service businesses, roofing, landscaping, pool, paving, water treatment, and pitches sellers on legacy and employee protection, with portfolio executives quoted saying Shoreline buys into the founder's vision rather than replacing it. Its recent registry deals show the add-on machine at work: a roofing acquisition folded into its Core Roofing Systems platform and a chemical distributor into C&S Chemicals within six months of each other.
For a searcher in the trades this is the profile to study, because Shoreline's pitch and a searcher's pitch to a retiring owner are nearly identical, legacy, employees, growth, except Shoreline arrives with three quarters of a billion dollars behind it. The differentiator left to an individual buyer is the one thing a fund cannot offer: the buyer personally running the company. Anyone interviewing there should know the stakeholder-model language and the no-cost-cutting returns claim, since both are the firm's self-description.
Read again in September 2026: the roofing platform's two earlier add-ons and the landscaping platform's nine, seven of them in one release with no day per deal, were not rows and are now; both platforms are still listed as current. The sponsor's newest platform is a restoration and waterproofing company taken in July 2026.
What It Buys
Tampa, Florida. Services businesses: roofing, landscaping, pool, paving, and water treatment. Close to the trades a first-time buyer actually looks at, and buying them one at a time.
Selling to them one day, or watching them as the other bidder? Track them in the Contact Book so the relationship has a next-touch date.
Confirmed Deals
9 deals traced to announcements by Shoreline Equity Partners, 2023 to 2026, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.
- United Restoration and Preservation, LLC · July 16, 2026
A Mableton, Georgia exterior restoration and waterproofing company taken as a partnership, the anchor of a new platform.
- Affinity Chemical (into C&S Chemicals) · June 9, 2026
An industrial water-treatment provider with seven eastern facilities, joining Shoreline's specialty-chemicals platform.
- Aquaphase, Inc. (into C&S Chemicals) · June 2, 2026
A Tennessee water treatment company taken as a partnership by the chemicals platform; not roofing or landscaping.
- Norman Roofing (into Core Roofing Systems) · January 6, 2026
A Mississippi commercial re-roofer founded in 1977, Core's third add-on since Shoreline's 2022 partnership.
- Tennessee GreenScapes and Chesapeake Irrigation & Lighting (into American Landscaping Partners) · February 25, 2025
An Antioch, Tennessee landscaper and a Millersville, Maryland irrigation company, the platform's eighth and ninth add-ons.
- Seven landscaping companies (into American Landscaping Partners) · July 11, 2024
Seven add-ons from Nashville to Baltimore in one release with no day per deal, the platform's first year under the sponsor.
- Peck Brothers, LLC (into Core Roofing Systems) · June 20, 2024
An Elmwood Park, New Jersey roofer trading as PB Roofing, taken as a partnership, the platform's second add-on.
- McCurdy-Walden, Inc. (into Core Roofing Systems) · September 8, 2023
A Jacksonville, Florida roofer taken as a partnership, the platform's first add-on under the sponsor.
- American Landscaping Partners · August 29, 2023
A Nashville commercial and residential landscaping and chemical-application platform, Shoreline's landscaping investment.