Olympus Partners

Olympus Partners

Type	Private Equity Partnership
Industry	Private Equity
Founded	1988
Founder	Robert S. Morris
Headquarters	Stamford, Connecticut, United States
Products	Private equity funds, Leveraged buyout, Growth capital
Total assets	$5.5 billion
Number of employees	20
Website	www.olympuspartners.com

Olympus Partners is a private equity firm founded in 1988 to make equity investments in middle market leveraged buyouts and minority ownership financings. Although the firm invests in a wide array of industries, over time it has developed deep knowledge and experience in the following sectors:

Business services,
Logistics and transportation services,
Healthcare manufacturing and services,
Financial services,
Consumer and restaurants,
Software and IT services.

The firm is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut with approximately 20 employees. Among the firm’s most notable current and prior investments are Tank Holding Corp., Centerplate, Churchill Financial, National Pizza Corporation, Phoenix Services, The Waddington Group, Ann's House of Nuts, Ariel Re, Entrust, K-MAC Enterprises, Nebraska Book Company, New Vision Television, Symmetry Medical, Tempest Re, and TravelCenters of America. Since its inception, Olympus has made investments in over 60 companies.

History

Olympus Partners was founded in 1988 and has eight General Partners. The General Partners average over 16 years of experience at Olympus, and over 20 years of experience within private equity.

Since its inception in 1988, Olympus has raised six institutional private equity funds, with total investor commitments of approximately $5.5 billion:

1990 - Olympus Private Placement Fund - $101 million
1994 – Olympus Growth Fund II - $268 million
1998 – Olympus Growth Fund III - $505 million
2003 – Olympus Growth Fund IV - $758 million
2007 – Olympus Growth Fund V - $1.53 billion
2013 – Olympus Growth Fund VI - $2.3 billion

Olympus is also well known for its blog on investments in private equity.

Performance

Olympus Partners has been recognized by Preqin Ltd., a provider of alternative asset research and data, as one of the most consistent Private Equity managers in the world, with three of its four buyout funds ranked in the top quartile.

References

Olympus Partners (company website)

External links

Olympus Says Tanks a Million Bloomberg, June 13, 2012
Carlyle Buys Churchill Financial to Expand Lending Before Public Offering Bloomberg, November 18, 2011
BofA to Sell Biggest U.S. Pizza Hut Franchisee to Olympus Bloomberg, November 7, 2011
Harbour Group sells Homax unit for $100 million. St. Louis Business Journal, February 9, 2004
Company News; Investment Group Buys Nebraska Textbook Company. New York Times, February 18, 1998
Northern Telecom Sells 25% Of Internet Company New York Times, January 3, 1997

Private equity and venture capital investment firms

Investment strategy	Venture Growth Mezzanine Secondaries Leveraged buyout

History	History of private equity and venture capital Early history of private equity Private equity in the 1980s Private equity in the 1990s Private equity in the 2000s

Investors	Angel investor Corporate venture capital Commercial bank Crowdfunding Institutional investor Insurance company Investment bank Endowment Family office Fund of funds High-net-worth individual Merchant bank Pension fund Sovereign wealth fund

Private equity firms Venture capital firms Portfolio companies

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/4/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.