Experience
Geoffrey Blythe is a Partner and Chairman of Industrials at Solomon Partners. He joined the firm in 2026.
Geoffrey has over 30 years of experience in financial services advising broader industrials and life sciences companies on strategic M&A, sell-side and buy-side transactions, and equity and debt capital financings. He has successfully executed a wide variety of transactions for large- and mid-cap public and private strategics and private equity institutions around the globe.
Prior to joining Solomon Partners, Geoffrey was a Senior Managing Director in the Industrials and Life Sciences group at Guggenheim Securities, where he launched the firm’s dedicated coverage effort in 2015. Previously, Geoffrey was Global Co-Head of Industrials at Rothschild & Co, and Managing Director and Head of Diversified Industrials at Merrill Lynch.
Over the past three decades, Geoffrey has advised on numerous industrials and life sciences transactions, working with leading companies including 3M, Air Products, Avantor, Carlisle Cos., Danaher, DuPont, EcoLab, Element Solutions, Entegris, Hayward Holdings, Honeywell Technologies, Melrose, Merck KGaA, Neogen, Novanta, Parker Hannifan, PerkinElmer / Revvity, Qnity, Regal Rexnord, Repligen, SPX Technologies, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waters Corporation, West Pharmaceutical Services, and Xylem.
Select transaction experience includes:
- Merck KGaA on its $11.3 billion acquisition of Bio-Techne
- Xylem Inc. on its $7.5 billion acquisition of Evoqua Water Technologies Corp.
- Merck KGaA on its $6.5 billion acquisition of Versum Materials
- Carlisle Companies on its $750 million sale of Carlisle Food Service Products
- Carlisle Companies on its $375 million sale of Carlisle Brake & Friction
- PerkinElmer on its $600 million acquisition of Oxford Immunotec
- PerkinElmer on its $1.3 billion acquisition of Euroimmun Medical Laboratory Diagnostics
- Balcan Plastics on its $1.0 billion sale to BDT & MSD Partners
- Melrose on its $5.1 billion sale of Elster to Honeywell
- Regal Rexnord on its $400 million sale of its Industrial Motors and Generators business to WEG S.A.
- Neogen on the sale of its Genomics business to Zoetis
- Bain on its dual tack IPO of Diversey
- BDT & MSD on its IPO of Hayward Holdings
- New Mountain Capital on its dual track IPO of Avantor
Education
Geoffrey holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Finance and Management with Distinction from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.