Industry Private equity Number of employees 30 Type of business Private | Website www.wppartners.com Founded 1984 Total assets 3 billion USD | |
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Products Leveraged buyout, Growth capital Headquarters Chicago, Illinois, United States | ||
Wind Point Partners is an American private equity firm focused on growth capital investments and leveraged buyouts in middle-market companies across a range of industries in the US and internationally. Wind Point's strategy involves partnering with executives who typically have run a P&L of $1 billion or greater to acquire businesses with enterprise values between $100 million and $500 million.
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The firm, which is based in Chicago, Illinois, was founded in 1984. It was founded and funded by S. Curtis Johnson of Racine Wisconsin, heir to the SC Johnson fortune.
History
Since its founding, Wind Point has raised approximately $3.0 billion of investor commitments and completed more than 90 investments and 160 add-on acquisitions across its seven private equity funds. The firm completed fundraising for its seventh and most recent fund in 2009 with $915 million of investor commitments. Wind Point's prior fund was raised in 2005 with $715 million of investor commitments.
Since inception, Wind Point acquisitions have included Pacific Cycle (also maker of Schwinn bicycles), Bushnell Corporation, Bakery Chef, Gehl Foods, and Ames True Temper.
Competitors
Wind Point competes with other major private equity players in the middle-market, including Madison Dearborn Partners and GTCR.