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Company Overview of Vestar Capital Partners

Company Overview

Vestar Capital Partners is a private equity firm specializing in management buyouts, growth capital investments, management buyouts, buyins, acquisitions or recapitalizations of public and private companies, middle market, corporate divestitures, and family successions and partnerships in mid sized companies. The firm invests in a wide variety of industries with a focus on consumer, diversified industries, healthcare, financial, and digital media and communications sector. Within the financial sector, it prefers to invest in specialty finance, insurance, savings management, leasing, and factoring. Within diversified industries sector, the firm seeks to invest from traditional industrial prod...

Detailed Description

245 Park Avenue

41st Floor

New York, NY 10167

United States

Founded in 1988

Phone:

212-351-1600

www.vestarcapital.com

Key Executives for Vestar Capital Partners

Founder
Age: 58
Co-President and Managing Director
Age: 52
Co-President and Managing Director
Age: 57
Co-Founder
Age: 53
Managing Director
Age: 73
Compensation as of Fiscal Year 2012.

Vestar Capital Partners Key Developments

Escada Reportedly In Talks To Acquire St. John Knits

EDOB Abwicklungs AG (Escada) has reportedly held merger talks to acquire St. John Knits International Inc. from Vestar Capital Partners. Rothschild is running the auction of St. John Knits. Officials at Escada and Rothschild couldn't be reached for comment and Vestar officials declined to comment, New York Post reported. Other prospective bidders for St. John Knits are The Jones Group Inc. and Lion Capital LLP. Insiders said St. John Knits could fetch as much as $300 million.

Vestar Capital Partners Presents at CLE 6th Annual Private Equity, Sep-20-2012 09:15 AM

Vestar Capital Partners Presents at CLE 6th Annual Private Equity, Sep-20-2012 09:15 AM. Venue: AAA Four Diamond Grand Hyatt, 1750 Welton Street, Denver, CO 80202, United States. Speakers: John R. Woodard, Managing Director, Head of Diversified Industries Group, and Chairman of Vestar Asia.

Vestar Reportedly Reportedly Seeks St. John Sale

Vestar Capital Partners has put St. John Knits International Inc. up for sale. Vestar owns a majority stake in St. John. Vestar has appointed Rothschild Group to seek a buyer. St. John has annual revenues of about $400 million, according to reports. Vestar and St. John refused to comment on the reports, Carol Makovich, spokeswoman for Vestar, said.

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