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Platinum Equity

Company namePlatinum Equity
Company typeLimited liability company
IndustryPrivate Equity
Founded1995
Founder(s)Tom Gores, Chairman & CEO
Headquarters20px Beverly Hills, California
Key peopleDavid Anglin&
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Rob Archambault&
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John Diggins&
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Robert J. Joubran&
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Eva Kalawski, General Counsel and Secretary&
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Jacob Kotzubei&
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Johnny O. Lopez&
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Phillip Norment&
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Mary Ann Sigler, Chief Financial Officer&
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Brian Wall&
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Robert J. Wentworth&
ProductsInvestments, private equity funds, leveraged buyouts
Employees30000

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Platinum Equity is a private equity investment firm founded by Tom Gores in 1995. The firm focuses on leveraged buyout investments of established companies in the U.S. and Europe.

Platinum Equity is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California with regional offices in Boston, New York and London. Forbes magazine ranked it number 27 on its 2009 list of the largest private companies in the United States and the Los Angeles Business Journal ranked it as number 1 on its 2008 list, L.A.’s 100 largest private companies.

The firm has a diversified capital base that includes the assets of its portfolio companies, and capital commitments from institutional investors in the firm's private equity fund vehicles, Platinum Equity Capital Partners and Platinum Equity Capital Partners II. Institutional investors in the fund vehicles include a diverse cross section of public and private pension funds, insurance companies, endowments and family offices in North America, Europe and Japan.


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Lennox appoints new VP operations - Home Channel News Tweet this news
Home Channel News--Previously Borzi served as SVP global operations for AEES, a -platinum equity- company. Prior to that he served as SVP operations, Americas for the Electrical ... - Date : Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:53:50 GMT+00:00
Get a Newspaper Job, No 'Complexity, Analysis or Narrative' Required - SF Weekly (blog) Tweet this news
SF Weekly (blog)--Formerly owned by the Copley family, The San Diego Union-Tribune was sold last year to a Beverly Hills private equity company, -Platinum Equity-, ... - Date : Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:31:22 GMT+00:00
Glastron's First Boat Produced in Cadillac - BoatTEST.com Tweet this news
BoatTEST.com---Platinum Equity's- Recreational Boat Group announced recently that on May 28th Glastron's first boat rolled off the production line in Cadillac, Michigan. ... - Date : Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:23:43 GMT+00:00
Lennox International Appoints James Borzi Vice President, Operations - MarketWatch (press release) Tweet this news
MarketWatch (press release)--Borzi most recently served as Senior Vice President, Global Operations, for AEES, Inc., a -Platinum Equity- company. Previously, Borzi served as Senior Vice ... - Date : Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:06:57 GMT+00:00
First Glastron boat rolls off new production line - Trade Only Today Tweet this news
Trade Only Today--The Recreational Boat Group, a division of -Platinum Equity- affiliate Project Boat Holdings, announced that the first Glastron boat has come off the ... - Date : Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:43:24 GMT+00:00
3B focuses on adding value - Reinforced Plastics Tweet this news
Reinforced Plastics---...- Belgium, and Birkeland, Norway, and in 2008 it was acquired by private equity firm -Platinum Equity-, which has invested in the business. ... - Date : Fri, 28 May 2010 10:20:09 GMT+00:00
Weinstein bid for Miramax fails - Financial Times Tweet this news
Financial Times---...- the way for Alec and Tom Gores to revive their bid for Miramax. Alec Gores founded the Gores Group private equity firm while Tom Gores runs -Platinum Equity-.--- - Date : Sat, 22 May 2010 02:11:34 GMT+00:00
CVC wins auction for Acument Global Asian biz-sources - Reuters Tweet this news
Reuters--UL] for the assets, which -Platinum Equity-, a US-based buyout firm, put up for sale nearly a year ago. Goldman Sachs (GS.N), which advised Platinum on the ... - Date : Fri, 07 May 2010 11:18:11 GMT+00:00
Apollo's Noranda IPO prices in cut range-source - Reuters Tweet this news
Reuters--Ryerson was backed by private equity funds associated with -Platinum Equity- Capital Partners and Moelis Capital Partners. Bank of America Merrill Lynch led ... - Date : Thu, 13 May 2010 21:47:23 GMT+00:00
EQUITIES: Ryerson pulls IPO - International Financing Review Tweet this news
International Financing Review--The steel service centre operator, which was purchased by -Platinum Equity- in a 2007 buyout, had marketed 23.5m shares at US$16-$18 through a syndicate led ... - Date : Thu, 06 May 2010 22:13:54 GMT+00:00



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