HOUSTON – Troutman Pepper Locke advised Genesis Park, a Houston-based private investment firm, on its investment in Star Step Performance Coatings Group (Star Step), an operator-led platform of industrial, specialty, and architectural coatings businesses serving manufacturing, industrial, commercial, and infrastructure end markets. For more information, see the press release.
The investment refinanced Star Step’s existing indebtedness and will provide capital to complete add-on acquisitions and bring strategic guidance and relationships that will support the company’s next phase of growth.
The Troutman Pepper Locke team that advised Genesis Park consisted of Allison Pearce, Brian Rose, Brandon Curtin, and Joe Wenzel, with help from Eric Larson.
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