May 17, 2023 — Bregal Investments Co-Founder Scott Perekslis is leaving the firm to make a bid to purchase its seafood holdings.
On 16 May, the New York City-based private equity fund announced Perekslis will leave his role as the fund’s managing partner effective 8 October, 2023. As a result, Bregal Investments will divest from its Bregal Partners Fund I portfolio companies, which include Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-based pollock- and hake-fishing firm American Seafoods, New Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-based groundfish fishing firm Blue Harvest Fisheries, and West Coast Salmon, a land-based salmon farm under development in the U.S. state of Nevada.