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Dyal Capital
Blue Owl Capital Inc. is an American alternative investment asset management company. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol: "OWL". The company is headquartered in New York City with additional offices around the world, including London, Dubai, and Hong Kong, among other major cities. In June 2024, Blue Owl Capital ranked 26th in Private Equity International's PEI 300 ranking among the world's largest private equity firms. History In December 2020, it was announced there would be a merger between Owl Rock Capital Group and Dyal Capital Partners. The two firms would combine with a special-purpose acquisition company, Altimar Acquisition Corp to form Blue Owl. The deal was valued at $12.2 billion which included a $1.5 billion commitment from investors such as ICONIQ Capital, Federated Hermes and Liberty Mutual. On May 19, 2021, the transaction was completed and Blue Owl was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. On October 18, 2021, Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
399 Park Avenue
399 Park Avenue is a 41-story office building that occupies the entire block between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue and 53rd Street and 54th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The building was the world headquarters of Citigroup from 1961, when it moved from 55 Wall Street, until 2015, when the company moved to 388 Greenwich Street. History The building lot was assembled by Vincent Astor who initially planned to build a 46-story Astor Plaza on the site. Astor had problems completing the assembly of the lots of mostly residential buildings as a pharmacy held out. In 1974, the company opened the Citigroup Center annex across Lexington to the east. In 1987, Citigroup sold one third of its interest in the building along with two-thirds of its interest in Citigroup Center to Dai-Ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company for $670 million. At the time, Citigroup said it was moving many of its offices to One Court Square in Long Island City, Queens. Citigroup moved out of the to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwich, Connecticut
Greenwich ( ) is a New England town, town in southwestern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it had a population of 63,518. It is the largest town on Gold Coast (Connecticut), Connecticut's affluent Gold Coast. Greenwich is home to many hedge funds and financial services firms due to its residential setting and proximity to Manhattan. Greenwich is a principal community of the Greater Bridgeport, Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk–Danbury metropolitan statistical area, which comprises all of Fairfield County, and is part of both the greater New York metropolitan area and the Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut, Western Connecticut Planning Region. The town is the southwesternmost municipality in both the State of Connecticut and the six-state region of New England. The town is named after Greenwich, a List of place names with royal patronage in the United Kingdom, royal borough of London in the United Kingdom. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MBK Partners
MBK Partners (MBKP) is a private equity firm focused on North Asia. According to Forbes, MBK Partners is one of the largest private equity firms in Asia. In 2023, ''Private Equity International'', ranked MBK Partners as the eighth largest private equity firm in Asia based on total fundraising over the most recent five-year period. Overview MBK Partners was founded in 2005 by Michael Kim (businessman), Michael ByungJu Kim and several other senior Asian executives from the The Carlyle Group, Carlyle Group. In January 2022, a 13% stake of the firm was sold to Blue Owl, Dyal Capital Partners. MBK Partners' investment focus is in North Asian regions, namely China, Japan and South Korea. MBK Partners has offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai and Tokyo. Funds Notable transactions In May 2009, MBKP and Goldman Sachs acquired a 98.3% stake in Universal Studios Japan for 1.4 billion. In August 2013, MBKP acquired ING's South Korean insurance unit for total cash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KPS Capital Partners
KPS Capital Partners is an American investment company that manages KPS Special Situation Funds, a family of investment funds. KPS specifically invests out of two funds raised in October 2019: KPS Special Situations Fund V ($6.12 billion) and KPS Mid-Cap Fund ($1.02 billion). In June 2024, KPS Capital Partners ranked 50th in Private Equity International's PEI 300 ranking among the world's largest private equity firms. History The company was founded in 1991 by Eugene Keilin, Michael Psaros, and David Shapiro, hence the KPS name. KPS raised its first institutional fund in 1998. On May 6, 2019, KPS Capital Partners signed an agreement with Brunswick Corporation to purchase its Life Fitness, fitness business valued at $490 million in an all cash transaction. In 2020, KPS completed five platform investments, including IKG (January 2020), Lufkin Industries (June 2020), Briggs & Stratton (September 2020), AM General (October 2020) and Hussey Copper (December 2020). In 2021, KPS anno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JANA Partners LLC
JANA Partners LLC (JANA or JANA Partners) is an Asset management, investment manager specializing in event-driven investing. It was founded in 2001 by Barry Rosenstein. JANA engages in traditional shareholder activism and socially responsible investing. History In the 1980s Barry Rosenstein worked with Asher Edelman. In 2001 Rosenstein founded JANA Partners. He began the firm in 2001 with $35 million, making it into a shareholder watchdog. Investment strategies Activist investing As an activist investor JANA Partners buys large numbers of shares in companies that it believes are underperforming, and then encourages the companies to make the changes JANA believes are needed to improve performance. The hedge fund has made activist investments in Apple Inc., Tiffany's, Whole Foods Market, Whole Foods, Conagra Brands, ConAgra, PetSmart, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Apache, URS, Safeway Inc., Safeway, Ashland, Marathon Petroleum, McGraw Hill, CNET, and Kerr-McGee. In July 2014, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HPS Investment Partners
HPS Investment Partners, LLC (HPS) is an American investment firm headquartered in New York City. The firm focuses on investments in private credit, public credit, private equity and real assets. In 2022, HPS was ranked by ''Private Debt Investor'' as the third largest private debt investment company based on total fundraising over the most recent five-year period. As of December 2024, HPS has $148 billion in assets under management. History In 2007, Scott Kapnick, Scot French and Michael Patterson founded Highbridge Principal Strategies after leaving Goldman Sachs. It was formed as the private equity and credit investment division of Highbridge Capital Management (Highbridge) within J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Its strategies included mezzanine capital, bonds, direct lending and growth capital. In 2009, due to the 2008 financial crisis, many hedge funds received redemption requests. However, Highbridge Principal Strategies grew significantly during this period. In Febru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golub Capital
Golub Capital is a credit asset manager based in the United States with over $60 billion of capital under management. The firm has primary business lines in middle market lending, late stage lending, and broadly syndicated loans. The firm is also affiliated with Golub Capital BDC, Inc., a business development company that trades on the NASDAQ under the stock ticker symbol, GBDC. Golub Capital is one of the largest non-bank middle market lenders and providers of senior debt. History 1994–2000: Foundation and early success Golub Capital was founded in New York City in 1994 by Lawrence Golub. Golub had previously worked at Allen & Company, Wasserstein Perella & Co., and Bankers Trust. He had also been a White House Fellow. The firm initially operated with $20 million of equity capital under management. Anchor investors in Golub Capital's first fund included Dan Lufkin (of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette), Stanley S. Shuman (of Allen & Company), and Mellon Bank among others. Gol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Energy Capital Partners
Energy Capital Partners Management, LP (ECP) is an American investment firm headquartered in Summit, New Jersey. It focuses on investments in the energy sector. The firm has additional offices in New York City, Houston, San Diego, Fort Lauderdale and Seoul. In August 2024, ECP merged with Bridgepoint Group to form a private assets investment platform. Background ECP was founded in April 2005 by Doug Kimmelman, Thomas Lane and Scott Helm. The three were previously senior executives at Goldman Sachs in its investment banking division. ECP focuses in investments in power generation, renewable energy and energy storage assets. It was originally based in Short Hills, New Jersey and later moved its headquarters to Summit. History In January 2007, ECP raised $2.25 billion for its debut fund, Energy Capital Partners I. At the time it was one of the largest debut funds ever raised. In September 2009, ECP formed Summit Midstream Partners, a platform company to invest in North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clearlake Capital
Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. is a private equity firm founded in 2006 that focuses on the technology, industrial and consumer sectors. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica with affiliates in Dallas, London and Dublin. In 2022, the firm was a part of an investor consortium named BlueCo that purchased Chelsea. In 2024, Clearlake Capital was ranked 16th in ''Private Equity International''s PEI 300 ranking of the largest private equity firms in the world. Background Clearlake Capital was founded in 2006 by Steven Chang, Behdad Eghbali and José Feliciano. The strategy was to shift between buyouts and distressed securities depending on economic conditions. This allowed the firm to take advantage of the 2008 financial crisis to acquire distressed securities and then sell them for a profit after recovery. In 2015, Chang left the firm leaving Eghbali and Feliciano as the remaining managing partners. In May 2018, Clearlake sold a minority stake of up to 20% of its shares to Dy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridgepoint Group
Bridgepoint Group plc is a British private investment company listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History Bridgepoint was founded as NatWest Equity Partners, a private equity firm part of NatWest. One of its early employees was William Jackson, who joined as a graduate in 1986. The firm was renamed Bridgepoint Capital in May 2000 following a management buyout. In May 2001, Bridgepoint closed its first fund following its independence from NatWest. The fund closed at €2 billion, and made its first investments in WT Foods, Virgin Active and Hydrex. The firm closed its Europe II fund in 2001 and its Europe III fund in 2005. Bridgepoint closed its Europe IV fund in 2008 for €4.8 billion. In 2011, the firm was renamed Bridgepoint Advisers. In March 2015, Bridgepoint closed its latest €4 billion Bridgepoint Europe V fund, bringing to €20.5 billion the amount of committed capital raised to date. In August 2018, Dyal Capital Partn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minority Interest
In accounting, minority interest (or non-controlling interest) is the portion of a subsidiary corporation's stock that is not owned by the parent corporation. The magnitude of the minority interest in the subsidiary company is generally less than 50% of outstanding shares, or the corporation would generally cease to be a subsidiary of the parent. It is, however, possible (such as through special voting rights) for a controlling interest requiring consolidation to be achieved without exceeding 50% ownership, depending on the accounting standards being employed. Minority interest belongs to other investors and is reported on the consolidated balance sheet of the owning company to reflect the claim on assets belonging to other, non-controlling shareholders. Also, minority interest is reported on the consolidated income statement as a share of profit belonging to minority shareholders. The reporting of 'minority interest' is a consequence of the requirement by accounting standards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private-equity Firm
A private equity firm or private equity company (often described as a financial sponsor) is an investment management company that provides financial backing and makes investments in the private equity of a Startup company, startup or of an existing operating company with the end goal to make a profit on its investments. The target companies are generally privately owned entities (not publicly listed), but on rare occasions a private equity firm may purchase the majority of a publicly listed company and delist the firm after the purchase. To complete its investments, a private equity firm will raise funds from large institutional investors, family offices and others pools of Financial capital, capital (e.g. other private-equity funds) which supply the Ownership equity, equity. The money raised, often pooled into a fund, will be invested in accordance with one or more specific investment strategies including leveraged buyout, venture capital, and growth capital. Although the indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
