Trilantic Capital Partners

Trilantic Capital Partners

Type	Private
Industry	Private equity
Predecessor	Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking
Founded	2009[1]
Headquarters	New York, New York, US London, England, UK
Key people	Charles Ayres, Chairman of Trilantic Executive Committee Vittorio Pignatti-Morano, Chairman of Trilantic Europe[2]
Products	Leveraged buyout, Growth capital
Total assets	$6.0 billion[3]
Number of employees	35+
Parent	Lehman Brothers (prior)
Website

Trilantic Capital Partners (Trilantic) is a global private equity firm focused on control and significant minority investments across a range of industries in North America and Europe managed by Trilantic North America and Trilantic Europe.^[4] The firm specializes in management buyouts, recapitalizations, growth equity, middle market investments and corporate divestitures investments. Trilantic invests through equity and equity-linked securities transactions.^[5]

Trilantic North America primarily targets investments in the business services, consumer, energy and financial services sectors; Trilantic Europe primarily targets investments in the business services, consumer & leisure, healthcare, industrial and TMT sectors.^[6][7] The firm currently manages four institutional private equity funds with aggregate capital commitments of approximately $6.0 billion, as of December 2013.^[8]

History

Trilantic was formed in 2009 by five founding partners, all of whom had worked together at Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking (“LBMB”).^[9][10] LBMB was originally founded in 1986 during the 1980s leveraged buyout boom as the private equity arm of Lehman Brothers.^[11] In April 2009, Trilantic acquired LBMB out of the bankruptcy estate of Lehman Brothers with the support of Reinet Investments S.C.A, a Luxembourg securitization vehicle controlled by the Rupert family and listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.^[12]

See also

• Lehman Brothers Venture Partners
• Reinet Investments
• Addison Group

References

External links

• Trilantic Capital Partners (company website)

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