Brookside Mezzanine Partners is pleased to announce its investment in The Legacy Companies, a leading food service and consumer products company that designs, manufactures and markets, nationally and internationally, a diverse portfolio of kitchen products under world-class brands, such as Bevles®, Blakeslee®, Excalibur®, General®, Greenfield WorldTrade, Kold-Draft®, Maxximum®, Nautilus®, Omega®, and Zeroll®. The Legacy Companies is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Brookside Mezzanine Partners partnered with Northport Capital as Administrative Agent, Tree Line Capital Partners, McLarty Capital Partners and Aeterna Capital Partners to provide a term loan to support the Company's acquisition of EdgeCraft Corporation and recapitalization of The Legacy Companies. EdgeCraft introduced the Chef'sChoice brand with the debut of its first electric knife sharpener in 1985. Today, Chef'sChoice offers more than 100 models of the most technologically advanced electric and manual knife sharpeners, as well as electric food grinders and slicers, wafflemakers, grills and hot beverage products. EdgeCraft is headquartered in Avondale, PA.

About Brookside Mezzanine Partners

Founded in 2001, Brookside Mezzanine Partners manages in excess of $500 million across three mezzanine funds. The Firm is a leading provider of subordinated debt and minority equity capital to small and mid-sized companies throughout the United States. We invest in both sponsored and non-sponsored transactions and provide junior capital and unitranche financing to support buyouts, leveraged recapitalizations, strategic acquisitions, dividends and growth capital.