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TSG Consumer Partners built a stellar track record by remaining true to its roots. For more than two decades, the firm never wavered from its focus on three core consumer segments: food and beverage, personal care and household products. That kind of single-mindedness has paid off with blockbuster investments in companies like VitaminWater, Smart Balance Foods, and Smashbox Cosmetics.
Technology industry icon Steve Case speaks about crowdfunding, entrepreneurship and what should guide the missions of the next generation of startup leaders at Thomson Reuters' Venture Alpha 2012 conference in San Francisco. Case is co-founder of America Online and chairman and CEO of Revolution, a Washington, D.C.-based investment firm he co-founded in 2005. Revolution's investment funds -- including Revolution Growth and Revolution Ventures -- have backed more than 30 companies, including Zipcar, LivingSocial, AddThis, Lolly Wolly Doodle, Bigcommerce and Echo360.
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Video date: Oct. 18, 2012
While all for aligning their interests with those of limited partners, buyout pros will have to hope that the exceptionally LP-friendly partnership terms offered by Public Pension Capital Management don’t spread too broadly. Then again, most funds don’t present investors with quite the risks that this particular debut offering does.
Firm: First Reserve Corp. Founded: 1983 Investment Professionals: 70+ Key Executives: William Macaulay, Chairman and CEO; John Hill, Vice Chairman; Alex Krueger, Managing Director, leads natural resources and mining investments Strategy: Invests $200 to $500 million of equity in companies across the energy spectrum, including ones involved in exploration and production, mining, renewables and alternative […]
Firm: Charlesbank Capital Partners Investment Professionals: 21 History: Traces roots back to 1991; the founding team formerly managed an investment portfolio for Harvard University. Strategy: Invests between $50 million and $150 million per transaction in companies with valuations between $100 million and $750 million, often in out-of-favor sectors. Limited Partners: AlpInvest Partners, New Brunswick Investment […]
Firm: Geneva Glen Capital LLC Investment Pros: Managing Directors Jeff Gonyo and Adam Schecter; Vice President Tom Wuellner Strategy: To invest up to $40 million in companies generating $3 million to $20 million in EBITDA in business services, consumer services, consumer products, food and niche manufacturing History: Started by Gonyo in 2008 to invest his […]
July 19 was a good day for Castle Harlan Inc. The New York buyout firm announced that it had agreed to sell Ames True Temper Inc., a maker of shovels, wheelbarrows and other lawn and garden equipment, to Griffon Corp. for $542 million. It had bought the company for $380 million in 2004.
Firm: Alinda Capital Partners LLC Founded: 2005 Investment Professionals: 40 Leader: Chris Beale, managing partner, former global head of project finance at Citigroup, and previously global head of project finance at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston Strategy: Invests $300 million to $500 million per deal, at pace of $500 million to $1.5 billion […]
RLJ Equity Partners is finally putting money to work, though probably not exactly in the way founder Robert L. Johnson, the billionaire media mogul, envisioned when he set out more than four years ago to invest in media, financial services and business services industries. In its first platform investment, the mid-market buyout firm on Jan. […]
Firm: ACI Capital Headquarters: New York Leader: Kevin Penn Number of Investment Professionals: 9 ACI Capital, once a promising mid-market buyout shop, has stopped investing in new platform companies. Executives at the New York-based firm told investors in September that they would wind down the portfolio after making only two investments from its second fund, […]