Harvest Partners

Harvest Partners

Type	Private
Industry	Private Equity
Founded	1981
Founder	Harvey Mallement, Harvey Wertheim
Headquarters	New York City, United States
Products	Leveraged buyout, Growth capital
Total assets	$1.9 billion[1]
Website	www.harvpart.com

Harvest Partners is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in middle market industrial, business services, consumer and retail companies.

The firm, which was founded in 1981 by Harvey Mallement and Harvey Wertheim, is based in New York City. Prior to co-founding Harvest, Mallement was managing partner of Masco Associates, making private equity investments on behalf of Masco Corporation^[2] and Wertheim managed venture capital and private equity investment activities at Research and Science Investors, a venture capital and investment management firm.

Since inception, Harvest has raised approximately $3 billion of investor capital across six investment funds:

• 1992 - $20m - Harvest Partners I
• 1996 - $120m - Harvest Partners II
• 1997 - $362m - Harvest Partners III
• 2002 - $558m - Harvest Partners IV
• 2006 - $815m - Harvest Partners V^[3]
• 2011 -2011 - Harvest Partners VI

Source: Private Equity Intelligence

References

1. Based on capital raised since inception. Source: Private Equity Intelligence
2. Masco Corporation. FundingUniverse
3. Harvest Partners Raises $815 Million Fund, June 18, 2007

• Harvest Partners completes $436 Million acquisition of Associated Materials
• Harvest Partners Exits New Flyer Investment, Sep 4, 2008
• Harvest Partners Agrees to Sell Aquilex Holdings, October 7, 2008
• COMPANY BRIEFS: Scandura Inc.. New York Times, January 31, 1995
• COMPANY BRIEFS: Praxair, Inc., New York Times, June 11, 2004
• COMPANY BRIEFS: Evenflo Company, New York Times, August 6, 2004
• COMPANY BRIEFS: Levlad Inc., New York Times, December 2, 2004
• The Churn: People, New York Times, June 29, 2007

External links

• Harvest Partners (company website)