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CI Capital Partners

CI Capital Partners (formerly Caxton-Iseman Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1993 by Frederick Iseman and based in New York that specializes in middle market leveraged buyouts.

SDI Media Group

In 2007 it was acquired by Elevation Partners, a private equity firm, mainly investing in media and entertainment companies.

Stratus Technologies

Now privately held, Stratus Technologies, Inc. is owned by private equity investors Investcorp and MidOcean Partners as well as Intel Capital and NEC.


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Aleksander Gudzowaty

His attempt to diversify into financial services ended after JV along with US insurer Cigna were dissolved and the bank BWE was divested to the private equity firm Innova Capital.

Alliance Data

In May 2007, Alliance Data and The Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, announced plans for Alliance Data to be acquired by The Blackstone Group.

Alliance Laundry Systems

In February 1998, private equity firm Bain Capital agreed to acquire the commercial laundry business from Raytheon for $358 million.

Avista Capital Partners

The firm, which is based in New York City, was founded in 2005 when a team of professionals, led by Thompson Dean and Steven Webster, completed a spinoff from Credit Suisse's private equity arm DLJ Merchant Banking Partners to form a new private equity firm.

BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards

It was formed through the acquisition of Atlantic Marine from the J.F. Lehman and Company private equity firm in May 2010 for $352 million.

Bill Price

William S. Price III, known as Bill Price, co-founder of private equity firm, the Texas Pacific Group

Boomerang Media

Boomerang Media, L.L.C. is an American media company founded by John Engelman and Eric Ellenbogen (founders of Classic Media) and the private equity firm GTCR in 2008.

Caterair

Caterair was sold by Carlyle to the Canadian private equity firm, Onex Corporation, in September 1995 which merged it with its other acquisition LSG/Sky Chef.

CDW

On Friday, October 12, 2007, CDW's acquisition by Chicago-based private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners and Providence Equity Partners was officially completed at a value of over 7 billion dollars.

Coach America

Coach America, also doing business as American Coach Lines, was a holding company for American bus services owned by New York-based private equity firm Fenway Partners operating under the Coach America, American Coach Lines, and Gray Line names (at some locations, operating under pre-existing branding).

Columbia Sussex

The Tropicana Las Vegas, which had a $440 million secured loan against it, emerged from bankruptcy in July 2009 as a separate company led by Canadian private equity firm Onex and former MGM Mirage president Alex Yemenidjian.

Donald Marron

Donald B. Marron (born July 21, 1934) is a financier, private equity investor and entrepreneur, notable as the chairman and chief executive officer of brokerage firm Paine Webber from 1980 through the sale of the company in 2000, as well as the founder of private equity firm Lightyear Capital and of Data Resources Inc.

First Chicago Bank

In the 1990s, the team, led by John Canning, Jr. would spin out of First Chicago to form private equity firm Madison Dearborn.

Foundation 9 Entertainment

On June 1, 2006 Foundation 9 received $150 million from Francisco Partners, a private equity firm.

HG Capital

H.I.G. Capital - a $7.5 billion private equity firm based in Miami

HgCapital - a €5.2 billion European private equity firm based in London, Amsterdam and Munich

H&G Capital Partners - a $1.0 billion middle market private equity firm based in California and Utah renamed Huntsman Gay Global Capital

Instituto de Banca y Comercio

In 2007, EduK Group was acquired by the private equity firm Leeds Equity Partners.

J.W. Childs Associates

The company is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts and was founded in 1995 by longtime buyout investor John W. Childs, who had previously been the number two partner at large-cap Boston-based private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners.

JLL

JLL Partners, a private equity firm, formerly Joseph Littlejohn & Levy.

Joël André Ornstein

After pursuing corporate finance at the First Boston Corporation (now Credit Suisse), in the era of the Joe Perella and Bruce Wasserstein deal-making duo, he was called in 1989 by his former boss, Frank Carlucci, then chairman of the nascent private equity firm, The Carlyle Group, to help establish the firm overseas.

Lion Capital

Lion Capital LLP, a British private equity firm formerly affiliated with Hicks Muse Tate & Furst

Naked Juice

Distribution remained within the state of California until 2000, when the brand was purchased by North Castle Partners, a private-equity firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Novator

Novator Partners - London-based private equity firm with links to Iceland

Orion Expedition Cruises

On the 20th May, 2008 Sarina Bratton, Founder and Managing Director of OEC announced the purchase of the company by US private equity firm KSL Capital Partners, and Cruise Ferry Master Fund (CFMF), a division of German shipping bank DVB.

Penn Foster College

On May 18, 2012, the Princeton Review brand name and operations were bought for $33 million by Charlesbank Capital Partners, a private-equity firm.

PrimeCo

The Illinois-Indiana PrimeCo territories were purchased by Clarity Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm in 2001, who successfully improved the company's operations and later sold it to U.S. Cellular.

Red Mango

The company's investors and advisors include John Antioco (former CEO and Chairman of Blockbuster Inc.), Dallas-based private equity firm CIC Partners, movie producer John Davis who is the son of Marvin Davis, movie producer Roy Lee, and Stone Canyon Venture Partners.

Tippmann

Originally a family owned business run from Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 2004 Dennis Tippmann Sr. sold a majority ownership stake to Summit Partners, a private equity firm.

Wellspring

Wellspring Capital Management, a $2 billion private equity firm based in New York City