RIA in a Box
The Deal
- Bought By
- Will Bressman and G.J. King
- Year
- 2011
- Vehicle
- Pacific Lake Partners, backed by Search Fund Partners
- Kind
- Software
A compliance software company for registered investment advisers, handling registration and ongoing compliance for roughly two thousand US advisory firms.
What Happened Next
Sold to Aquiline Capital Partners in May 2018, whose own release names the searchers' purchase; the business later folded into COMPLY.
The searchers held it 7 years, from 2011 to 2018.
Bought at exit by Aquiline Capital Partners, whose page carries that firm's own announcement of it.
Backed by the Same Firms
- CoFi · Queris Au and Ashwin Kumar · 2026
- Park Dietz & Associates · Jineet Gandhi · 2026
- Message Digital · Garrison Jones · 2026
- O&W Heat Treat · Ali Platon and Chris Goyen · 2025
- The rest of what Pacific Lake Partners has backed
- RouteGenie · Cameron Craig · 2025
- Strategic Kids · Graham Brockington and Andy Morrow · 2025
- Upper Hand · Brad Wills and Brad Greene · 2025
- Desert Services · Tim Haitaian · 2024
- The rest of what Search Fund Partners has backed
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 rather than inferred.
- Pacific Lake Partners' own account pacificlake.com
- The acquirer's announcement aquiline.com
- Search Fund Partners' own account searchfunds.net