Type Private Founder Tim Collins Total assets 10 billion USD | Industry Private equity Founded 1995 Parent organization Oddo et Cie | |
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Products Leveraged buyout, Growth capital, Late stage venture capital Website www.bhfkleinwortbenson.com Headquarters New York City, New York, United States Subsidiaries D&M Electronics Singapore Pte. Ltd. | ||
Ripplewood holdings
Ripplewood is an American private equity firm based in New York, New York that focuses on leveraged buyouts, late stage venture, growth capital, management buyouts, leveraged recapitalizations and other illiquid investments.
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Ripplewood was founded by its current CEO, Tim Collins. Managing partners include Lawrence Lavine, Harris Williams and Michael C. Duran. The company's main interests range from telecommunications to banking to entertainment. The firm manages more than $10 billion in capital.
Founded in 1995, Ripplewood manages about $4.0 billion in four institutional private equity funds: Ripplewood Partners, L.P., Ripplewood Partners II, L.P., RHJ International, L.P. and New LTCB Partners C.V. The company invests in education publishing, telecom, automotive retail, specialty chemicals, consumer products & food manufacturing, and industrial products.
Ripplewood has invested in nearly a dozen industry groups and in companies with more than $20 billion of revenue. It has led several of the largest private equity transactions, including its takeover of the Long-Term Credit Bank, renamed Shinsei Bank, which helped restructure the Japanese economy.