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Stonington Partners is a New York based private equity firm with more than $1 billion of capital under management on behalf of public and corporate pension funds, private endowments and other financial institutions. Stonington Partners was formed in 1994 out of a desire of its Partners to establish an independent entity following a decade of managing the investment activities of Merrill Lynch Capital Partners, Inc. (MLCP), which had $1.6 billion of equity capital under management. Stonington focuses on identifying attractive investments in middle market companies with values between $50 million and $500 million. Stonington typically invests from $25 million to $150 million of equity per company either at the initial acquisition, or over time through add-on investments. While receptive to opportunities in across industries, Stonington focuses on sectors in which its team has proven expertise. Stonington’s investment professionals have over 90 years of cumulative private equity experience that were gained through Stonington Partners and their prior affiliation with MLCP. These experiences cover the past 20+ years of private equity investing through various market cycles. In addition to their roles with the portfolio investments made through Stonington Partners, our investment professionals played direct roles in over 20 investments of MLCP. Our investment professionals have made equity investments through a wide range of transactions including:
All of our investment professionals have extensive experience in strategic business development efforts including follow-on acquisitions & consolidations; cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures; and driving organic growth through the introduction of new products & accessing new markets. Our professionals have directly managed over $3.5 billion in realizations achieved by taking 10 companies public, merging 7 of our businesses with other public companies, and the recapitalization and outright sale of numerous divisions and entire enterprises. Over the past 20 years, we have built market-leading companies and have developed extensive relationships with business leaders in a wide range of industries including:
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