North American Trade Schools
The Deal
- Bought By
- Nina Chen
- Year
- 2025
- Vehicle
- Backed by Endurance Search Partners and Search Fund Partners
- Kind
- Services
A skilled-trades school training electricians, HVAC technicians, welders, diesel mechanics, builders and truck drivers on campuses in New Castle, Pennsylvania, East Liverpool, Ohio and Baltimore, Maryland.
What Happened Next
Still held: the school's own page says it came under new ownership in December 2025, one backer names her its chief executive on its partners page, and a second lists the school against its own 2025 investment.
The exit ends of journeys like this one, where the buyer has announced the purchase itself, are on Buyers.
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Method & Source
This record is double-sourced: it joined when the purchase and, where the company has traded on, the exit could both be read in primary accounts.
- Endurance Search Partners' own account endurancesearchpartners.com
- Search Fund Partners' own account searchfunds.net
- The company's own account natradeschools.edu
These sources name who runs the business and when the firm invested, rather than saying in a sentence that the searchers bought it. The pairing rests on the row's other sources: a backer's partners page titles her chief executive of the school. The index host's card lists the school against its own 2025 investment and names a board member, not her.