Leon Brujis has taken his deal origination and executive talents to 65 Equity Partners, a growth equity firm with backing from Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek and with offices in Singapore, London and San Francisco.
As partner and head of East Coast, Brujis (pictured) appears to be launching a New York City outpost for the roughly 35-person 65 Equity Partners. We were unable to reach Brujis for comment.
The firm, which has $3.3 billion in assets under management, also has 19 professionals located in Singapore, nine in London, and six in San Francisco, not counting board members or senior advisors, according to its Web site. The firm tends to back mid-sized, family-owned or entrepreneur-led companies operating in business services, consumer, healthcare, industrials and technology.
Brujis earlier this summer stepped down as partner at Palladium Equity Partners as well as from the boards of portfolio companies Daniel’s Jewelers and Transforce Group, as reported exclusively by Private Equity Career News. The firm is known for buying founder-owned and family-run businesses that serve Hispanic Americans.
Brujis joined the New York City-based firm in 2007 after working as an analyst at Lehman Brothers. By early 2021 Brujis had worked on some 16 transactions, many of them in consumer products and services, with a combined value of some $1.2 billion.
Along with Daniel’s Jewelers and Transforce Group, Brujis has served on the boards of Cannella Response Television, Celeritas, Del Real Foods, Pronto Insurance, Raben Tire and Teasdale.
Brujis also serves as the chairperson of New America Alliance, a New York City-based organization that supports women-owned and minority-owned asset managers and works to put more women and minorities in leadership positions at U.S. companies.