Real Estate Carve-Outs for Specialty Construction Independent Sponsors
When the deal is specialty construction and the question is Real Estate Carve-Outs, the structure decisions in the first 30 days outlast the next five years. This is where Jason Powell works.
Real Estate Carve-Outs on specialty construction deals is one of those workstreams that looks routine on a checklist and decides outcomes in practice.
The typical specialty construction platform sits at $8M to $110M EV with EBITDA in the $2M to $18M range. The thesis runs on trade-specific buy-ups (roofing, mechanical, electrical, fire protection). Bonding capacity is the gate. Without it, the independent sponsor deal stalls at the first big project bid post-close.
How Real Estate Carve-Outs actually gets structured.
Separate operating real estate into a single-purpose entity pre-close.
Document an arm's-length lease with renewal options and assignment rights.
Address title, survey, and environmental on each parcel.
Coordinate the real estate close with the operating company close.
In specialty construction, layer in surety pre-qualification for the buyer entity as part of the Real Estate Carve-Outs workstream.
Leaving the real estate inside the operating company. The buyer pays a higher multiple than the real estate deserves.
"Real estate trades at a different multiple than the business. Separate it, lease it, manage it."Jason Powell · Real Estate Carve-Outs
The deal is one thing. The capital that opens up after close is another.
Refinancing, recaps, growth rounds, and the right strategic conversation eighteen months early are all downstream of relationships that take years to build and minutes to use.
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Real Estate Carve-Outs for Specialty Construction, on independent sponsor terms.
Independent sponsor counsel that already speaks fluent deal-by-deal economics, structures clean LPAs, and travels with capital markets relationships for what comes after close.