Thomas H Lee Partners

AUM : $10 billion

Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in management-led buyouts, growth capital, mature, middle market, special situations, add-on acquisitions, recapitalizations for growth companies.

It typically invests in companies headquartered in North America with a focus on United States. The firm invests in companies with enterprise values between $250 million and $2.5 billion.

It prefers to take a majority stake. It seeks to acquire substantial ownership positions and board seat in its portfolio companies. The firm generally makes investments for five years and exit through outright sales, public offerings, recapitalizations, and joint ventures.

Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. was founded in 1974 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts with an additional office in New York, New York.

Areas of expertise

The firm seeks to invest in business and financial services, consumer and healthcare, media and information services, telecommunications industrial, manufacturing, retail, hotels, restaurants and leisure, and entertainment sectors.