Company type | Private |
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Industry | Private equity |
Predecessor | Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking |
Founded | 2009[1] |
Headquarters | New York, New York, U.S. London, England, UK |
Key people | Charles Ayres, chairman, Trilantic executive committee Vittorio Pignatti-Morano, chairman, Trilantic Europe [2] |
Products | Leveraged buyout, growth capital |
Total assets | $9.7 billion [3] |
Number of employees | 60+ |
Website | www |
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 business services, consumer and leisure, healthcare, industrial and TMT sectors. [6] [7] The firm has managed six institutional private equity funds with aggregate capital commitments of $9.7 billion, as of July 2019. [8]
Trilantic was spun out from Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking (LBMB), in 2009, [9] by five founding partners, each of whom had workers at LBMB, [10] [11] which had been founded as the private equity arm of Lehman Brothers, in 1986, during the 1980s leveraged buyout boom. [12] 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. [13] On May 11, 2022, it was announced that Trilantic Europe is buying the polling company Kantar Public (previously part of the Kantar Group) in the third quarter of 2022. [14] Kantar Public subsequently rebranded as Verian. [15] [16]
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