Madison Dearborn Partners

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Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC
Company type Privately held company
Industry Private equity
Founded1992;32 years ago (1992)
Headquarters Chicago, Illinois, United States
Products Leveraged buyout
Total assets $23 billion [1]
Number of employees
50+ (2007)
Website http://www.mdcp.com/

Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP) is an American private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts of privately held or publicly traded companies, or divisions of larger companies; recapitalizations of family-owned or closely held companies; balance sheet restructurings; acquisition financings; and growth capital investments in mature companies. MDP operates using an industry-focused investment approach and focuses on the following sectors: basic industries, business and government software and services, financial & transaction services, health care, and TMT services. [2] Since the founders established MDP as an independent firm in 1992, the firm has raised seven funds with aggregate capital of approximately $23 billion, and has completed investments in more than 130 companies. [3]

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History

Madison Dearborn Partners was founded in 1992 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. The founders, John A Canning Jr, Paul J. Finnegan, Samuel M. Mencoff, and Nicholas W. Alexos, had previously made private equity investments for First Chicago Bank. [4] The north-east corner of First Chicago's then-headquarters was at the intersection of Madison and Dearborn Streets.

Madison Dearborn's chairman, John Canning, Jr., is also a minority owner of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team and submitted an ultimately unsuccessful bid to buy the Chicago Cubs [5] [6]

Investments

In 1998, the firm bought Reiman Publications, based in Greendale, Wisconsin, from Roy Reiman for $640 million. In 2002, the firm sold Reiman Publications to Reader's Digest Association. [7]

In 2007, the firm joined with Michael Eisner's Tornante investment company to buy out baseball card maker The Topps Company. [8]

Madison Dearborn completed leveraged buyout transactions for a number of publicly traded and other significant companies in 2006 and 2007 including:

Bell Canada

On June 30, 2007, Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) announced that the company entered into a definitive agreement for BCE to be acquired pursuant to a plan of arrangement by an investor group led by Teachers Private Capital, the private investment arm of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Providence Equity Partners Inc. and Madison Dearborn Partners. The all-cash transaction was valued at C$51.7billion (US$48.5 billion), including C$16.9 billion (US$15.9 billion) of debt, preferred equity and minority interests. The arrangement was approved on September 21, 2007, at a special meeting of shareholders by more than 97% of the votes cast by holders of common and preferred shares, voting as a single class. [16]

Investment funds

MDP invests through a series of private limited partnerships and its investors include a variety of pension funds, endowments and other institutional investors:

FundVintage
Year		Committed
Capital
Madison Dearborn Capital Partners1993$550 million
Fund II1997$925 million
Fund III1999$2.2 billion
Fund IV2000$4.1 billion
Fund V2006$6.5 billion
Fund VI2010$4.1 billion
Fund VII2016$4.4 billion
Fund VIII2021$5.0 billion

Sources: [17] [18]

Selected portfolio

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References

  1. ↑ Capital raised since inception in 1992
  2. ↑ "Madison Dearborn | Sectors". Madison Dearborn Partners. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Madison Dearborn | About Overview". Madison Dearborn Partners. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Company News; Fund Venture Begun in Chicago". The New York Times. January 7, 1992. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved July 23, 2022.
  5. ↑ Is John Canning Jr. the next John Henry? Archived 2009-09-03 at the Wayback Machine (TheDeal.com, 2007)
  6. ↑ Brewers stakeholder in the fan business [ permanent dead link ] (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
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  8. ↑ "A Bid for Topps, the Baseball Card Company". The New York Times. Reuters. May 25, 2007. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved July 23, 2022.
  9. ↑ Mouawad, Jad (May 30, 2007). "Equity Firm to Acquire Net Retailer". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved July 23, 2022.
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  14. ↑ Madison Dearborn part of winning $12.3B bid for Univision (Chicago Business News, Analysis & Articles, 2006)
  15. ↑ "Candle Maker Accepts a Buyout Offer". The New York Times . October 26, 2006. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved July 23, 2022.
  16. ↑ Privatization of BCE
  17. ↑ Skelly, Keenan (May 4, 2010). "Press Release". The Wall Street Journal.
  18. ↑ Madison Dearborn Partners Overview Archived 2002-06-04 at archive.today
  19. ↑ Dusane, Ameya (May 16, 2019). "Madison Dearborn Partners Invests in InMoment's Customer Experience Management Platform". Martech Advisor . Retrieved March 8, 2021.
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