On March 18, 2019, Align Capital Partners announced that its portfolio company Pleatco, LLC had acquired Milton Manufacturing Inc.

Pleatco, based in Glen Cove, New York, develops, manufactures and commercializes water filtration systems.

Milton Manufacturing provides metal and fabric solutions for the defense, automotive, aerospace, heavy truck, rail, agriculture and energy industries. Milton services customers in Canada and the US from its facility in Milton, Ontario.

Gowling WLG was counsel to Pleatco in this acquisition with a team that included Jonathan Behar, Cara Stoller and Stephen Franchetto (corporate/M&A), Andrew Bratt (employment), Paul Carenza (tax) and Peter Fairey (with respect to BC matters), assisted by student-at-law Harrison Sversky.