The Carlyle aerospace and defense team, led by Managing Director Peter J. Clare, has leveraged its extensive industry experience to pursue proprietary investment opportunities across a wide range of industry sub-sectors. According to Mr. Clare, “Our familiarity with the peaks and troughs of the commercial aerospace cycle and our experience in the defense contracting world enable us to evaluate opportunities from a long-term strategic perspective, and this has allowed us to successfully complete a number of investments that other financial investors might not have made.”

On a number of these investment opportunities Carlyle has worked closely with existing management teams who were looking to seize the opportunity within the industry. As an industry-focused financial investor, Carlyle is capable of assisting companies as a knowledgeable source of capital as well as a strategic partner to facilitate the completion of a growth acquisition, recapitalization or going private transaction.

Over the years Carlyle’s aerospace and defense portfolio has included a wide array of companies, including United Defense Industries, Inc., Vought Aircraft Industries, Inc., Howmet International, Magnavox Electronics, US Investigations Services, Inc. and ARINC.