PHILADELPHIA – SolomonEdwards, a national professional services firm focused on solving critical business challenges for companies undergoing growth, change or compliance-driven events, today announced the acquisition of Pencek Advisors, a boutique consultancy specializing in private equity portfolio company transformation. The move formalizes an existing proven partnership and marks the official launch of SolomonEdwards Private Equity Services, a purpose-built platform to help lower to middle-market private equity (PE) firms and their portfolio companies accelerate performance, scale infrastructure and drive value creation.
Leading the new national service is partner Matt Pencek, founder of Pencek Advisors. The platform pairs Pencek’s deep expertise in finance transformation and operational execution with SolomonEdwards’ national scale, technical depth and expanding suite of strategic advisory capabilities.
“Pencek Advisors has been instrumental in helping private equity firms address the critical execution gaps that often stall value creation,” said John Gulnac, CEO of SolomonEdwards. “Together, we’re positioned to offer a purpose-built platform that delivers both strategic insight and hands-on implementation, empowering our clients to move with speed and precision across the investment lifecycle.”
Clients will benefit from an expanded team of experts, deeper execution capabilities and a fully integrated delivery model that is capable of meeting client demand. Investors and stakeholders can expect SolomonEdwards to strengthen its position within the PE ecosystem, with new opportunities for growth, efficiency and cross-service integration.
“Before formalizing our partnership through this acquisition, our teams had long operated in parallel, tackling the same challenges across PortCos: manual processes, weak reporting, fragmented systems, disjointed data and rising investor pressure,” said Pencek. “This move allows us to deepen our impact, scale our delivery and bring even more precision to the work that fuels value creation.”
SolomonEdwards’ new Private Equity Services platform is designed to support private equity sponsors in driving transformation across their lower to middle-market portfolio companies. The service platform is available directly to portfolio companies as well and offers a tightly integrated suite of solutions tailored to their unique needs throughout the investment lifecycle. These include:
“Matt and his team have distilled what private equity firms value most in an advisory firm: a platform of integrated offerings that can support private equity firms from pre-close due diligence and transaction execution to post-close finance and technology transformation initiatives,” added Lee Minkoff, Managing Director at Renovus Capital Partners, the majority investor in SolomonEdwards. “This represents a major leap forward for SolomonEdwards and a big win for the lower middle-market PE community that can benefit from these services.”
The acquisition follows SolomonEdwards’ recent integrations of Dominion Advisory Group and Steele Consulting, further strengthening the firm’s capabilities in financial advisory and tax consulting.