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HarbourVest Partners

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Industry
  
Private Equity

Founded
  
1982

Predecessor
  
John Hancock Financial

Type
  
Limited liability company

Website
  
www.harbourvest.com

Number of employees
  
340

Total assets
  
42.4 billion USD

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Products
  
Fund of funds, Secondaries, Equity co-investment, Mezzanine capital

Headquarters
  
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Subsidiaries
  
HarbourVest Partners (Japan) Limited

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HarbourVest Partners is a private equity fund of funds and one of the largest private equity investment managers globally. The firm invests in all types of private equity funds, including venture capital and leveraged buyout funds, and also directly in operating companies.

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Founded in 1982 as Hancock Venture Partners, a subsidiary of John Hancock Insurance, HarbourVest is based in Boston, Massachusetts with offices in London and Hong Kong. HarbourVest has approximately 80 investment professionals globally and manages approximately $18 billion of investor commitments.

Investors in HarbourVest funds include various types of institutional investors such as public and corporate pension funds, endowments, foundations and financial institutions.

In 2001, HarbourVest Partners got inducted to the Private Equity Hall of Fame.

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Secondary transactions

HarbourVest has completed a number of significant secondary market investments in private equity:

  • 2008 - Macquarie Capital Alliance, in June 2008, announced a takeover offer from a consortium of private equity secondary firms including AlpInvest Partners, HarbourVest Partners, Pantheon Ventures, Partners Group, Paul Capital Partners, Portfolio Advisors and Procific (a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority) in one of the first public to private transactions of a publicly traded private equity company completed by secondary market investors.
  • 2007 - California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) agrees to the sale of $2.1 billion portfolio of legacy private equity funds at the end of 2007, after a process that had lasted more than a year. The buying group included Oak Hill Investment Management, Conversus Capital, Lexington Partners, HarbourVest, Coller Capital and Pantheon Ventures.
  • 2006 - American Capital Strategies sells a $1 billion portfolio of investments to a consortium of secondary buyers including HarbourVest Partners, Lexington Partners and Partners Group
  • 2003 - HarbourVest acquired a $1.3 billion of private equity fund interests in over 50 funds from UBS AG through a joint venture transaction

    • References

    HarbourVest Partners Wikipedia
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