H.I.G. Middle Market, the middle market investment affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, a global private equity investment firm with $21 billion of equity capital under management, announced that Andrew Freeman, formerly a Partner at Paine & Partners, has joined H.I.G.’s San Francisco Middle Market team as a Managing Director.

Freeman will focus on making LBO investments in the food and agribusiness sectors and will be responsible for all aspects of the investment process, including sourcing, transaction structuring, financing, and post-investment strategy development and value-creation execution.

H.I.G. Middle Market invests in a wide range of industries, with deep expertise in virtually all segments of the economy. Through recapitalizations and private sales, corporate divestitures, and public-to-private transactions, H.I.G. Middle Market targets businesses with EBITDA typically between $35 and $200 million. H.I.G. Middle Market is an extension of H.I.G.’s private equity strategy, complementing its lower middle market LBO and growth equity funds. H.I.G. Middle Market works closely with the other H.I.G. private equity funds, but has a dedicated team in Miami, New York and San Francisco to pursue investments in larger middle market opportunities.