Leonard Green & Partners

Leonard Green & Partners is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyout transactions, particularly of middle market companies. As of 2010, the firm had with approximately $9 billion in assets under management. The firm, which was founded in 1989 has approximately 28 employees based in its Los Angeles, California offices. Leonard Green is currently investing its fifth fund, Green Equity Investors V, LP, which it completed fundraising in March 2007 with over $5.3 billion of investor commitments. The firm's most recent fund is nearly three times the size of its previous fund the $1.85 billion Green Equity Investors IV, LP. Leonard Green had previously raised $1.24 billion for its third fund in 1998, $311 million for its second...