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Wellspring Capital Management

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Type
  
Private

Products
  
Leveraged buyout

Number of employees
  
4800

Industry
  
Private equity

Total assets
  
$2.2 billion

Founded
  
1995

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Website
  
www.wellspringcapital.com

Headquarters
  
New York City, New York, United States

Founder
  
Martin Davis, Greg Feldman

Wellspring Capital Management is an American private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout investments in middle-market companies across a range of industries.

The firm, which is based in New York City, was founded in 1995 by Martin Davis and Greg Feldman. Davis (1927-1999) was best known for his role in restructuring Gulf and Western Industries into Paramount Communications. The firm has raised approximately $2.2 billion since inception across four funds. Wellspring completed fundraising on its fourth fund in 2005 with $1.0 billion of investor commitments as a successor to its $665 million 2003 Fund III. The current CEO of Wellspring is William F. Dawson, Jr.

Among the firm's most notable investments are: Performance Food Group, Lionel, Dave & Buster's and Checkers.

Miscellaneous

The firm is not related to a Florida firm, Wellspring Capital, that was implicated in a ponzi scheme in 2004.

References

Wellspring Capital Management Wikipedia