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Vestar Capital Partners

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Industry
  
Private Equity

Total assets
  
$5 billion

Headquarters
  
United States of America

Products
  
Leveraged buyouts

Website
  
www.vestarcapital.com

Founded
  
1988

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CEO
  
Daniel S. O'Connell (1999–)

Founders
  
Daniel O'Connell, Arthur Nagle, Robert L. Rosner, Norman Alpert, James P. Kelley

Vestar Capital Partners is an American private equity firm focusing on leveraged buyout transactions in the United States.

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The firm, which was founded in 1988, is headquartered in New York City with offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Denver, Colorado, in the US.

History

Vestar is a leading private equity firm specializing in management buyouts and growth capital investments. Vestar was founded in 1988 by principals of The First Boston Corporation’s Management Buyout Group. Five of the original founders, including Daniel O'Connell, Norman Alpert, Robert L. Rosner, James P. Kelley, and Arthur Nagle, are still with the firm.

Since the firm's founding in 1988, the Vestar funds have completed 70 investments in companies with a total value of more than $40 billion.

Investment funds

Since its inception in 1988, Vestar has raised six private equity funds with total investor commitments of approximately more than $9 billion. Of these funds, five have been fully invested and two have been fully liquidated. Vestar is actively evaluating middle-market investment opportunities for its sixth fund, Vestar Capital Partners VI.

  • 1988 - Vestar Capital Partners ($35 million - Liquidated)
  • 1993 - Vestar Capital Partners II ($260 million - Liquidated)
  • 1997 - Vestar Capital Partners III ($803 million - Fully invested)
  • 1999 - Vestar Capital Partners IV ($2.48 billion - Fully invested)
  • 2005 - Vestar Capital Partners V ($3.7 billion - Fully invested)
  • 2013 - Vestar Capital Partners VI ($804 million - Closed and currently investing)
  • References

    Vestar Capital Partners Wikipedia