APriori Capital Partners

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aPriori Capital Partners
Company typePrivate
Industry Private equity
Founded1985;39 years ago (1985)
Founder Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
Headquarters New York City, New York, United States
Key people
Head of DLJMB
Nicole Arnaboldi, Managing Director, Steven C. Rattner (former)
Products Financial services
Total assets $12 billion [1]
Website aprioricapital.com

aPriori Capital Partners is a private equity investment firm focused on leveraged buyout transactions. The firm was founded as an affiliate of Credit Suisse and traces its roots to Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, the investment bank acquired by Credit Suisse First Boston in 2000. The private equity arm also manages a group of investment vehicles including Real Estate Private Equity, International Private Equity, Growth capital, Mezzanine debt, Infrastructure, Energy and Commodities Focused, fund of funds, and Secondary Investments.

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aPriori has offices in New York, London, Los Angeles, and Detroit.

History

DLJMB (named for "Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Merchant Banking") was founded in 1985 to invest capital in leveraged buyouts alongside private equity firms that were DLJ clients, off of the bank's balance sheet as well as capital contributed by employees. In 1992, the firm raised its first institutional private equity fund (DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, LP) with $1 billion in investor commitments. In 1997, the firm raised its second fund with $3 billion in investor commitments and three years later in 2000 raised its largest fund to date at $5.3 billion.

After the acquisition of DLJ, the group, which was led by Thompson Dean and Larry Schloss faced significant turnover. In 2004, DLJMB co-head Larry Schloss, completed a spinout from DLJMB to form a new private equity firm, Diamond Castle Holdings. [2] The following year, in 2005, a team of professionals, led by Thompson Dean and Steven Webster, completed a spinout of DLJMB to form a new private equity firm, Avista Capital Partners, which raised its own $2 billion fund in 2007. [3]

Six years after its previous fund, in 2006, the firm was able to raise $2.1 billion in investor commitments for DLJ Merchant Banking Partners IV, LP—more than doubling the $1.0 billion the company was reportedly seeking due to high investor interest. The firm is reportedly seeking to raise its fifth fund in 2009–2010, which targets $3.5 billion in investor commitments.

In 2008, Nicole Arnaboldi was named head of the firm after Steven C. Rattner resigned in the middle of fundraising for its fifth fund. [4]

In 2014, DLJMB was spun out as aPriori Capital Partners. [5]

Examples of Current and Prior Investments

See also

Notable current and former employees

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References

  1. ↑ Thomson Reuters reports that DLJMB controls approximately $12 billion of assets under management.
  2. ↑ Moore, Heidi N. DLJ: Wall Street’s Incubator The Wall Street Journal , March 10, 2008
  3. ↑ Avista fund challenges Credit Suisse [ dead link ] Buyouts, June 14, 2007. Cached version
  4. ↑ On Wall Street, Reputation Is Fragile. New York Times, August 5, 2008
  5. ↑ "Davis Polk Advises Credit Suisse on the Spinout of DLJ Merchant Banking". Archived from the original on 2015-01-04. Retrieved 2015-01-04.
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