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November 13, 2025
AUA featured in The Family Office Pro– “Andy Unanue: ‘Building Perpetual Wealth’”
AUA Founder & Managing Partner, Andy Unanue, was recently featured in The Family Office Pro discussing his approach to running his family’s investment office and other trends he is seeing in the family office space.
Read Full StoryOctober 13, 2025
AUA featured in Alternatives Watch – “Former Goya COO’s second act: Helping family businesses navigate their next chapter with growth equity”
AUA Founder & Managing Partner, Andy Unanue, was recently featured in Alternatives Watch discussing the nuances behind working with family-owned business, how AUA partners with these firms, and the lessons learned from his time as COO of Goya Foods.
Read Full StoryOctober 12, 2025
AUA featured in WSJ PE Pro – “Deal Rebound This Year Suggests Buyouts Are Making a Comeback”
AUA Private Equity Partners was included in a WSJ PE Pro article discussing how deal activity isd on track for the second-best year since 2021 and how AUA is looking to wrap up at least one acquisition by year’s end.
Read Full StoryOctober 1, 2025
AUA Founder & Managing Partner, Andy Unanue, Appears on Schwab Network’ Markets On Close – “Where Private Equity Intersects With Family-Run Businesses”
Recently, our Founder & Managing Partner, Andy Unanue, appeared on Schwab Network’s Market On Close to discuss how more family-owned businesses are turning to private equity to help them balance the need for growth while retaining their unique culture, as well as the “good strong pipeline” of deals he sees getting done in the consumer products and services space.
Read Full StoryJuly 9, 2025
AUA Private Equity Partners Sells Western Smokehouse After More Than Doubling The Size Of Business In Two Years
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AUA Private Equity Partners, LLC (“AUA Private Equity” or “AUA”), an operationally-focused lower-middle market investment firm specializing in family-owned businesses in the consumer products and services sectors, today announced the sale of Western Smokehouse Partners, LLC (“Western” or the “Company”), a leading manufacturer of better-for-you protein snacks, to Monogram Capital Partners […]
Read Full StoryOctober 23, 2024
AUA Private Equity Announces the Sale of Raymundo’s Food Group, LLC
West Palm Beach, FL (October 23, 2024) – AUA Private Equity Partners, LLC (“AUA Private Equity”), is pleased to announce the sale of substantially all of the assets of Raymundo’s Food Group, LLC (“RFG” or “Raymundo’s”) to Lakeview Farms, a portfolio company of CapVest. Over the past decade, Raymundo’s has established itself as a leading, […]
Read Full StoryMarch 28, 2023
AUA Private Equity Partners Completes Acquisition of Western Smokehouse Partners, LLC
WEST PALM BEACH, FL. – (March 27, 2023) – AUA Private Equity Partners, LLC (“AUA Private Equity”) is pleased to announce the acquisition of Western Smokehouse Partners, LLC (“Western Smokehouse” or the “Company”), formerly a portfolio company of Monogram Capital Partners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Read Full StoryOctober 26, 2022
AUA Private Equity Partners Consummates Sale of AOG, LLC d/b/a TruFood Manufacturing
WEST PALM BEACH, FL. (October 18, 2022) – AUA Private Equity Partners, LLC (“AUA Private Equity”) is pleased to announce the sale of AOG, LLC d/b/a TruFood Manufacturing (“TruFood” or the “Company”), a leading snack food contract manufacturer for high growth consumer packaged goods brands. The Company was acquired by Mubadala Capital in partnership with management. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Read Full StorySeptember 9, 2022
AUA Private Equity Partners Consummates Sale of Water Lilies Food
WEST PALM BEACH, FL. (August 31, 2022) – AUA Private Equity Partners, LLC (“AUA Private Equity”), is pleased to announce that it has consummated the sale of Water Lilies Food, LLC (“Water Lilies” or the “Company”), a manufacturer of premium, inspired Asian cuisine to affiliates of Blue Point Capital Partners, LLC (“Blue Point”).
Read Full StoryDecember 7, 2021
AUA Private Equity Partners Formalizes Partnership with First Generation Investors; Funds University of Miami Chapter
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (December 7, 2021) – AUA Private Equity Partners, LLC (“AUA Private Equity” or “AUA”), a lower middle-market consumer investment firm, is pleased to announce that it has formalized a partnership with First Generation Investors (“FGI”), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works to provide high school students in underserved communities with the knowledge and skills to thrive in the investment economy.
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