Date
Press
Fund
Firm
Type
Note
Sept
11, 2006
PR
Blue Wolf
Blue Wolf Capital Management
Buyout
$33.5-$43.5 million investment commitment from
Johnnic Holdings (Johnnic) (JSE: JNC). Blue Wolf
makes middle-market investments - focused on
companies with complex issues, including
government contracting, union relations and
financial distress.
Sept 20, 2006
PR
Tricor Pacific Capital Partners
(Fund IV), Limited Partnership
Tricor Pacific Capital, Inc.
Buyout
$555 million, exceeding Tricor's
initial target of $450 million. The fund is
targeting investments primarily
in the Western and mid-western regions of Canada
and the United States in
the manufacturing, service,
distribution, and consumer products sectors .
Tricor
makes primarily control investments in lower
middle-market companies.
Tricor typically invests in
companies with enterprise values of $25 million
to $200 million that have demonstrated strong
performance in a definable market niche. Tricor
looks to partner with the operating management
of its portfolio companies with a view to
creating significant value by helping their
Canadian portfolio companies expand their
businesses into the U.S. market and by helping
their U.S. portfolio companies expand into the
Canadian market.
[Placement: Lazard | Legal:
]
sept 2006
Tombstone
Lehman Brothers Co-Investment Partners L.P.
Lehman Brothers
Buyout
$1,638,250,000 fund to invest side-by-side with
premier private equity firms and financial
sponsors [Placement: Lehman Brothers | Legal: ]