CIVC Proves There’s Life After Fifty
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CIVC Proves There’s Life After Fifty

CIVC Partners has closed its sixth fund, CIVC Partners Fund VI LP, with $525 million of limited partner capital commitments. The new fund had an original target of $450 million and also closed above its original hard cap.

Fund VI was backed by both existing and new investors, including insurance companies, fund of funds, pension programs, foundations and endowments, family offices, a sovereign wealth fund, and financial institutions located across the United States and Europe.

CIVC was founded in 1970 as the Continental Illinois Venture Corporation, a subsidiary of Continental Illinois National Bank. When Continental Illinois was acquired in 1994 by Bank of America, the CIVC team formed a semi-independent private equity firm, CIVC Partners, with backing from Bank of America. Today, CIVC is led by partners John Compall, Chris Geneser, Marc McManus, Chris Perry, Doug Potters, Scott Schwartz, and JD Wright.

“We could not have asked for a better way to finish our 50th year in existence than with this successful raise of Fund VI during such challenging times,” said Mr. Perry. “We are thankful to our existing limited partners who supported a new commitment to Fund VI and all our new investors who valued our strategy and process for creating strong returns.”

“Being able to have a one and only close fundraise demonstrates a strong endorsement of our team, sourcing strategy, value creation approach and performance,” added Mr. Compall. “We look forward to a long relationship with all of our limited partners.”

M2O Private Fund Advisors was CIVC’s placement agent for this fundraise and Kirkland & Ellis provided legal services. “The M2O team did an outstanding job getting us in front of many high-quality investors prior to COVID-19 events,” said Mr. McManus.

“M20 kept everyone focused during the transition to virtual meetings, prepared investors for a third-quarter launch, and did an outstanding job bringing everything to completion in today’s virtual environment,” added Mr. Geneser.

Chicago-headquartered CIVC invests from $20 million to $100 million in US or Canadian-based service companies that have EBITDA from $5 million to $20 million. Since 1989, the firm has invested over $1.8 billion in 68 platform companies and over 100 add-on acquisitions.

CIVC’s closing of Fund VI follows its earlier fund, CIVC Partners Fund V LP, which closed in March 2017 with $400 million of total commitments.

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