Safeguard International is a private investment firm specializing in financing traditional leveraged acquisitions, management buyouts, and growth capital transactions. The firm seeks to acquire privately held businesses and divisions of larger companies. It prefers to invest in technology oriented industrial companies with a focus on the metallurgical, energy, specialty chemicals, and environmental businesses. The firm seeks to invest in companies with operations in North America and Western Europe. It typically invests between $10 million and $65 million per investment to take a control position and can lead a group of equity investors for larger transactions. Safeguard International was founded in 1997 and is based in Wayne, Pennsylvania with additional offices in Frankfurt, Germany and Paris, France.