Validates Resilience of Structured Capital Strategy Across Different Business Cycles

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, education, and business services industries, today announced that it was recognized as #1 in PitchBook’s 2024 Global Mezzanine and North America Private Debt categories. VSS also secured the #2 ranking in PitchBook’s Global Private Debt category, with three rankings from its Global Manager Performance Score League Tables through December 31, 2024.

“VSS’s inclusion again this year in PitchBook’s annual ranking reflects the continued execution and appeal of our Structured Capital investment strategy, combined with our ability to consistently drive attractive risk-adjusted returns and long-term value creation for our investors,” said David Fann, Partner, Senior Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations at VSS. “We are honored to be recognized as a top performer, and we look forward to continuing to support founder-owned, lower middle-market businesses with Structured Capital that enables them to achieve their full growth potential,” added Jeffrey Stevenson, Managing Partner at VSS.

VSS’s Structured Capital approach to investing is based on a hybrid combination of debt and equity, providing economically vital and high-growth potential lower middle-market businesses in the firm’s target sectors - healthcare services, tech-enabled business services, and education - with the downside protection of traditional non-control junior and mezzanine debt, coupled with the potential for upside gain from private equity and active partnership.

PitchBook’s 2024 Annual Global Manager Performance Score League Tables provides a standardized analysis of private capital manager performance across 29 strategy and geographic categories. Read more about the organization’s ranking and proprietary, data-driven methodology here. No compensation (cash or non-cash) was provided in connection with obtaining the rating.

About VSS Capital Partners

Headquartered in New York, VSS is a private investment firm that invests in healthcare, business services and education companies. Since 1987, VSS has partnered with lower middle-market companies, working closely with management teams, to facilitate their next stage of growth. VSS provides capital for growth financings, recapitalizations, strategic acquisitions, and buyouts with the flexibility to invest control or non-control capital, based on the needs and objectives of each company. With approximately $4 billion in committed capital across eight funds, VSS has completed over 100 platform investments and more than 600 add-on acquisitions. For more information, visit https://www.vss.com.

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