AEA Investors

AEA Investors
Type Private
Industry Private Equity
Founded 1968
Headquarters New York, New York, United States
Products Leveraged buyout, Growth capital, Mezzanine capital
Total assets $4.2 billion[1]
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, Munich, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

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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.[2]

Source: Venture Economics

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