DALLAS, TX – January 9th, 2026 – Strait Lane Capital Partners, LLC (“Strait Lane”), a family-owned private investment firm, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Makosi Audit and Tax LLC (the “Company” or “Makosi”). The transaction was completed using 100% equity from a Strait Lane led group of investors.

Makosi’s Chief Executive Officer, Scott Etheridge said, “Proud of this next step in Makosi’s 20-year journey and for our incredible team at Makosi! This new chapter at Makosi gives us additional support to keep growing and innovating. Grateful to our Founders and Board for their leadership and support, and of course to our people and customers who make this possible. Our Executive Team is excited to be partnering with Strait Lane and the impact we continue to have on our employees and our customers!”

Strait Lane Partner, David Kesler, added, “We are very happy to welcome Scott and the entire Makosi team into the Strait Lane family. The acquisition of Makosi continues our strategy to acquire companies with unique competitive advantages in large and growing markets. Makosi’s ability to provide real value-added services to a long list of accounting firms across the globe is a testament to their top-notch people, stellar reputation and results-based approach. We look forward to supporting the entire team in this next exciting chapter.”

About Makosi

Founded in 2005 in South Africa, Makosi is a tech-enabled services firm designed to support public accounting and advisory firms globally, through agile workforce solutions. Makosi’s services include providing South African Chartered Accountants to support primarily U.S.-based audits, transaction advisory services, employee benefit plans, and other accounting services. Makosi’s clients benefit from using the Company’s highly trained professionals to improve overall utilization and address shortfalls that occur throughout the audit process.

About Strait Lane Capital Partners

Strait Lane is a Dallas-based, family-owned private investment firm.  Founded in 2009, Strait Lane pursues investments in a wide variety of end markets with particular focus in the business and government services, specialty manufacturing and skilled distribution markets. Strait Lane’s investment structure allows it to have a longer-term horizon, creating value by helping its portfolio companies and their respective management teams expand capabilities, product lines, markets served and clients served.