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AEA Investors
Type	Private
Founded	1968
Headquarters	New York, New York
Industry	Private Equity
Products	Leveraged buyout, Growth capital, Mezzanine capital
Total assets	$4.2 billion
Website	www.aeainvestors.com

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 and Hong Kong.

[edit] Endorsments funds

Since 1983, the firm has also raised more than $4 billion of capital from institutional investors across five private equity 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.^[2]

Source: Venture Economics

[edit] References

^ Based on capital raised since inception. Source: Venture Economics
^ HSBC said to be considering major restructuring of private equity operations. AltAssets, 2002

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

[edit] External links

AEA Investors (company website)

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[aum-0] Based on capital raised since inception. Source: Venture Economics

[1] HSBC said to be considering major restructuring of private equity operations. AltAssets, 2002

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