EL CAR WASH ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION BY WARBURG PINCUS
About El Car Wash
El Car Wash is the leading express car wash operator in Florida with 17 operating sites and a development pipeline throughout the state. The company is the Official Car Wash of the Miami HEAT, a partner of the Miami Zoo and a partner of Baptist Health. El Car Wash strives to bring a high level of customer service with a dose of fun to Florida residents by efficiently providing a clean, dry, and shiny car, every time. Rain Doesn’t Clean Cars. For more information, please visit www.elcarwash.com. Follow us on Instagram @elcarwash.
About Warburg Pincus
Warburg Pincus LLC is a leading global growth investor. The firm has more than $85 billion in assets under management. The firm’s active portfolio of more than 250 companies is highly diversified by stage, sector, and geography. Warburg Pincus is an experienced partner to management teams seeking to build durable companies with sustainable value. Founded in 1966, Warburg Pincus has raised 21 private equity and 2 real estate funds, which have invested more than $106 billion in over 1,000 companies in more than 40 countries. The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, Mauritius, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.warburgpincus.com. Follow us on LinkedIn.
About Wafra
Wafra is a global alternative investment manager with approximately $33 billion of assets under management. Wafra invests across a range of alternative assets, including alternative and traditional real estate, strategic partnerships, real assets and infrastructure. By providing flexible and accretive capital solutions and focusing on long-term partnerships, Wafra aligns and partners with best-in-class asset owners, companies and management teams. Headquartered in New York, Wafra has additional offices in London, Kuwait and Bermuda. For more information, please visit: www.wafra.com.
About Audrose Partners
Audrose Partners is a private investment company co-founded by Justin Landau and Geoffrey Karas focused on identifying long-term value creation opportunities in operationally-intensive, thematic businesses.
About Fireside Investments
Fireside Investments is a private investment firm that backs experienced management teams to build leading real estate operating companies and platforms. The firm has invested in and helped build businesses in a variety of industries with attractive fundamentals including permanent exhibition space, private country clubs, marinas, and experiential hospitality. Since the firm’s founding five years ago, it has led investments in businesses with an aggregate enterprise value in excess of $5 billion. For more information, please visit www.firesideinvestments.com.
Contact
El Car Wash
Geoff Karas
Justin Landau
justin@elcarwash.com
Warburg Pincus
Sarah McGrath Bloom
Wafra
Katrina Allen, Edelman
Katrina.Allen@edelman.com
Fireside Investments
info@firesideinvestments.com