# Legate Partners

Ex-search chief executives backing the next lot.

A group of former search fund chief executives investing in searchers, stating sixty-plus searchers backed and thirty-plus companies invested in. It says it will meet a searcher at any stage of the journey, and looks for companies with a long history of stable cashflows in growing industries, preferring recurring revenue and work that does not require a searcher to learn highly technical skills.

- Category: Capital & Investors
- Pricing model: Custom Pricing
- Where it fits: Set Up & Fund the Search
- Website: https://legatelp.com
- Last verified: 2026-09-09

## At a Glance

The clearest operator-heavy option for a searcher who values having been in the seat over having an office to visit.

## What It Costs

Investment terms, not fees. No fee is charged to a searcher; what the firm publishes about its own side is noted in the row.

## Best For

A traditional searcher who wants backers who have sat in the chair, and does not need to know where a firm is registered before talking to it.

## Pros and Cons

- Pro: Every partner is a former search fund chief executive, which is rarer among backers than it sounds
- Pro: States plainly that it will meet a searcher at any stage rather than only once a deal exists
- Pro: Says what it looks for in plain terms, including a preference against highly technical businesses
- Con: No address of any kind published on any page, only an email address
- Con: Its strongest numbers are returns attributed to individual partners' own companies rather than to the firm
- Con: Publishes nothing about check size, stake, the searcher's economics, or how long a search may run

## What Searchers Say

Named as a backer on the published rosters of eleven separate searchers, more than any other firm absent from this shelf when that count was taken.

## Sources

- https://legatelp.com

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/resources/legate-partners