AEA Investors is one of the oldest private equity investment firm in the United States. The firm focuses on leveraged buyout, growth capital and mezzanine capital investments in manufacturing, service, distribution, specialty chemicals, consumer product and business services companies in the middle market. The firm makes investments primarily in the US and Europe although AEA will periodically invest in Asia as well.

AEA was founded in 1968 to make investments on behalf of S.G. Warburg & Co. as well as the Rockefeller, Mellon, and Harriman families.

AEA is headquartered in New York City with offices in Stamford, Connecticut, London, Munich, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Fund Raising

Since 1983, the firm has also raised more than $4 billion of capital from high net worth individuals and institutional investors across five private equity and debt funds:

• 1983 - $509m - AEA Investors

• 1997 - $1.0 billion - AEA Investors II

• 2003 - $939m - AEA Investors

• 2005 - $100m - AEA Mezzanine Partners (Mezzanine)

• 2005 - $145m - AEA Small Business Fund

• 2006 - $1.5 billion - AEA Investors 2006 Fund

Additionally, in 2002, AEA entered into a joint venture with HSBC as part of the bank's restructuring of its private equity operations.^[1]

Source: Venture Economics

Investments

• Acosta Inc.
• Hospitalists Management Group, LLC
• NCGA holdings
• Behavioral Interventions Inc.
• Suncoast Roofing Supply
• Houghton International
• Unifrax Corporation
• Pregis
• CPG International
• Henry Corporation
• Convenience Food Systems
• Singer Equities
• Burt's Bees

References

• Dale Electronics To Be Acquired. New York Times, 1984
• Executives Join In Caressa. New York Times, 1984
• James River's About To Invent Itself Again. New York Times, 1990
• COMPANY NEWS; James River to Sell Special Paper Unit. New York Times, 1991
• An Empire Built on Steel Rods. New York Times, 1992
• COMPANY NEWS; SPECIALTY COATINGS SOLD FOR $424 MILLION. New York Times, 1993
• COMPANY NEWS; PILKINGTON IS SELLING ITS SOLA EYEGLASS UNIT. New York Times, 1993
• COMPANY NEWS; KLOSTER TO SELL 2 CRUISE LINES FOR $565 MILLION. New York Times, 1993
• COMPANY NEWS; AMSTRONG WORLD PLANS THE MERGER OF TILE CONCERNS. New York Times, 1995
• How to Succeed in Nonprofits by Really Trying. New York Times, 1995
• Ciba-Geigy Selling Its Scales Division. New York Times, 1996
• PURCHASE OF GRACO CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS IS SET. New York Times, 1996
• Key Division To Be Sold By Corning. New York Times, 1997
• Rand McNally To Sell Control. New York Times, 1997
• James C. Dudley, 77, Investment Adviser. New York Times, 1998
• GOODRICH SELLS CHEMICALS UNIT FOR $1.4 BILLION. New York Times, 2000
• At Rand McNally, Is the Future Drawn to Scale?. New York Times, 2002
• DEAL REACHED FOR CONTROL OF RAND McNALLY. New York Times, 2003
• AEA sells Burt's Bees to Clorox for $925m. AltAssets, 2007

External links

• AEA Investors (company website)