BAML Capital Partners

Type	Subsidiary
Founded	1993
Headquarters	New York, New York
Industry	Private equity
Products	Leveraged buyout, Mezzanine capital
Total assets	$5 billion
Employees	40+
Parent	Merrill Lynch, Bank of America
Website	www.bankofamerica.com/bamlcp

BAML Capital Partners is the private equity and mezzanine investment unit of Bank of America. BAML Capital Partners was formed in 2009 following the merger of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch from the combination of each bank's respective private equity units: Banc of America Capital Investors (BACI) and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity (MLGPE).

The new combined unit is headquarted in Charlotte, North Carolina with offices in New York City and London. BAML Capital Partners traces its roots back to 1993 with the formation of earliest predecessors of BACI. Since that time, BAML Capital Partners has invested over $8 billion of capital through more than 150 transactions.

[edit] Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity

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Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity (MLGPE) was the private equity investment arm of Merrill Lynch, prior to its merger with Bank of America. The MLGPE business was focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments across a range of industries. MLGPE was among the most active investment banking sponsored merchant banking programs in the mid-2000s buyout boom.

The firm, which is based in New York City, was founded in 1996. Since inception, MLGPE has invested more than $5 billion of capital across more 30 companies.

Among the group's most notable investments are some of the largest leveraged buyout transactions of the last decade including The Hertz Corporation^[1], Hospital Corporation of America^[2],Debenhams and Rexel.

Following the acquisition of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America, MLGPE ceased making new investments. Bank of America Capital Investors, a private equity division of Bank of America has historically made much smaller investments than MLGPE. The two units were integrated in early 2009.

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• Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity (company website)

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v • d • e Merchant banking private equity groups (current and prior) ABN Amro: AAC Capital Partners ●● Bank of America: BAML Capital Partners●● Barclays Capital: Barclays Private Equity ●● Bear Stearns:: Irving Place Capital (fka BSMB) ●● CIBC World Markets: Trimaran Capital Partners ●● Citigroup: Metalmark Capital, Court Square Capital Partners, CVC Capital Partners ●● Credit Suisse: DLJ Merchant Banking, Avista Capital Partners, Diamond Castle Holdings ●● Deutsche Bank: MidOcean Partners ●● First Chicago Bank (defunct): Madison Dearborn Partners, GTCR ●● Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs Capital Partners ●● JPMorgan Chase: CCMP Capital (fka JPMorgan Partners), One Equity Partners ●● Lazard: Lazard Alternative Investments ●● Lehman Brothers (defunct): Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking ●● Merrill Lynch: Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity ●● Morgan Stanley: Metalmark Capital, Morgan Stanley Capital Partners ●● UBS: UBS Capital, Affinity Equity Partners, Capvis, Lightyear Capital ●● Wachovia: Wachovia Capital Partners ●● William Blair & Company: Chicago Growth Partners, William Blair Capital Partners List of investment banking private equity groups