Doughty Hanson & Co

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.doughtyhanson.com
Employees: 88

Doughty Hanson handsomely manages dough, making private equity investments in middle-market European firms in a range of industries, including media, communications, consumer goods, and building materials. It also invests in and develops real estate and makes venture capital investments in growing technology concerns. Established in 1985, has invested in more than 100 companies. Its current portfolio includes interests in more than a dozen firms. Doughty Hanson closed its fifth private equity fund, worth some E3 billion, in 2007. Institutional investors in the fund include pension funds, banks, and insurance companies. Doughty Hanson has about ten offices throughout Europe.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $192.5M

Officers:
Chairman and Executive Director: Nigel E. Doughty
Financial Director: Venture Capital

Competitors:
3i Group
HgCapital
Lyceum Capital Partners

Doughty Hanson & Co

Type	Private Ownership
Founded	1985
Founder(s)	Nigel Doughty and Richard Hanson
Headquarters	London, England
Industry	Private Equity
Products	Private equity funds, Leveraged buyouts
Total assets	€8 billion
Website	www.doughtyhanson.com

Doughty Hanson & Co is a European independent private equity fund manager focused on leveraged buyout and recapitalization transactions.

The firm which was founded in 1985 by Nigel Doughty and Richard Hanson is one of the oldest European buyout private equity firms. Since its inception, the firm has invested over €23 billion across more than 100 investments. In the 1990s, the firm expanded beyond its central business of acquiring mature businesses to make investments in real estate and venture capital.

Since inception, Doughty Hanson has raised over €8 billion across its five private equity funds.^[1] In 2007, Doughty completed fundraising for its fifth private equity fund with €3.0 billion of investor commitments.^[2] This came just two years after the firm had wrapped up a difficult fundraising for Doughty Hanson IV, in 2004 which had only generated €1.6 billion of investor commitments compared with the firm's original €3.0 billion target.^[3] Doughty Hanson III, raised in 1997 had been a €2.7 billion investment fund.

Doughty Hanson is headquartered in London and has offices in Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris and Stockholm.

References

1. ^ This does not include commitments to Doughty Hanson & Co's real estate, venture capital and other investment funds
2. ^ Doughty Hanson Fund V closes on €3bn
3. ^ European Doughty Hanson to return E175m to investors

External links

• Official site of Doughty Hanson & Co

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