Sun Capital Partners, Inc., is an American private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts.

[1] Sun Capital was founded in 1995 by Marc J. Leder and Rodger Krouse, former classmates at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and investment bankers at Lehman Brothers.

[1][2] Sun Capital originally formed Emerald through a corporate carveout of food ingredients and industrial specialties divisions of Lubrizol.

[4] Sun Capital originally assembled Point Blank's assets through bankruptcy auction processes.

[5] In 2016, The Wall Street Journal reported that Sun Capital had returned more than 18 times its investment in Critical Flow Solutions after doubling the portfolio company's earnings in less than two years.