American Securities

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American Securities LLC

Type	Private Ownership
Industry	Private Equity
Founded	1947
Headquarters	299 Park Avenue New York City, New York, United States
Products	Private equity funds, Leveraged buyouts
Total assets	$8 billion
Website	www.american-securities.com

American Securities LLC (AS) is a private equity investment firm focusing on leveraged buyout transactions. AS focuses primarily on investments in the United States and Canada.

American Securities LLC is based in New York City and traces its roots to the family office founded in 1947 by William Rosenwald to invest and manage his share of the Sears, Roebuck & Co. fortune. In the late 1980s, AS transitioned from a family office into a third-party investment management firm. In 1994, AS transitioned exclusively to its current focus on private equity investments.^[1]

The firm currently has more than $8 billion of capital under management.^[1] American Securities Partners V, with a 68.8% annual return since inception in 2008, is among the top performing private equity funds raised from 2006-2008.

Current Investments

Advanced Drainage Systems
Arizona Chemical
Fairmount Minerals
FiberMark
General Chemical Corp.
Global Tel*Link
GT Technologies
Healthy Directions
HHI Group Holdings
Lakeside Energy
Liberty Tire Recycling
Metaldyne
PDM Bridge
Potbelly Sandwich Works
Presidio Networked Solutions
Robertson Fuel Systems
SpecialtyCare
Unifrax Corporation
Unison Site Management
The United Distribution Group

Previous Investments

Anthony International
Cambridge International
Caribbean Restaurants
Community Pacific Broadcasting
CTB International
Delphi Midstream Partners
Dr. Leonard's Healthcare
El Pollo Loco
Ketema, Inc.
MECS
Miltex Instrument Company
MVE (company)
NEP Broadcasting - Mobile television producer for the Olympics, Academy Awards, and World Cup as well as New York City's largest production facility owner
Oreck Corporation
Press Ganey Associates
Primary Energy Ventures
TNP Enterprises
Unifrax Corporation
VUTEk
Weasler Engineering
Westward Communications - newspaper publisher in Texas and Colorado

Source: American Securities website^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 American Securities – Overview and Firm Heritage Retrieved 26 September 2013.

External links

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