August 22, 2025 – Four longtime south Louisiana companies have been acquired in the past three months, all by out-of-state private equity firms, raising alarms among civic leaders about the loss of corporate decision-making in the local economy.
But flying under the radar are a small group of homegrown private equity firms that in recent years have raised billions of dollars, bought their own out-of-state companies and are starting to create a local investment ecosystem that is turning heads outside of Louisiana.