SolomonEdwards Acquires Pencek Advisors, Launches Private Equity Services Platform

PHILADELPHIA – June 17, 2025 – 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:

• Finance Transformation – Accelerating close processes, enhancing board reporting, managing purchase accounting, advancing business analytics and optimizing working capital
• M&A Execution – Supporting due diligence, leading Quality of Finance reviews, planning integrations and executing post-close initiatives
• Technology Enablement – Assessing, selecting, integrating and optimizing systems that scale with growth. Through a technical advocacy approach, SolomonEdwards serves as an unbiased, independent champion to help ensure that technology aligns with business objectives.

“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.

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About SolomonEdwards

For more than 25 years, SolomonEdwards has empowered organizations to tackle common and complex business challenges through strategic advisory, technical advocacy, and hands-on execution. We partner with leaders across industries to strengthen risk and compliance, leverage data and technology, and keep critical work moving. The result: stronger performance, smarter decisions, and progress that lasts.

About Pencek Advisors

In the fast-paced world of private equity, the ability to create value swiftly and efficiently is paramount. Pencek Advisors is a team of seasoned experts with over a decade of hands-on experience in executing value creation for middle-market private equity firm investments. Pencek Advisors leverages its cross-functional expertise to help portfolio companies establish scalable business infrastructure, fostering accelerated growth and market-leading returns within shorter hold periods. Every strategy, intervention, and initiative is crafted with the singular goal of driving tangible and measurable improvements in the financial health and overall value of portfolio companies.

About Renovus Capital Partners

Founded in 2010, Renovus Capital Partners is a lower middle-market private equity firm specializing in the Knowledge and Talent industries. From its base in the Philadelphia area, Renovus manages over $2 billion of assets across its several sector focused funds. The firm’s current portfolio includes over 30 U.S. based businesses specializing in education and workforce development and services companies in the technology, healthcare, and professional services markets. Renovus typically makes control buyout investments in founder owned businesses, leveraging its industry expertise and operator network to make operational improvements, recruit top talent and pursue add-on acquisitions. Learn more at www.renovuscapital.com.