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Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Incorporated
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 PROFILE
Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst likes to buy, buy, buy & buy. (It sells sometimes, too.) The leveraged buyout firm assembles limited partnership investment pools and targets companies in specific niches that can be used to form a nucleus for other investments. Hicks, Muse (which sold its AMFM broadcast group to rival Clear Channel Communications to form the US's largest radio/TV/outdoor advertising firm) is moving abroad with media and food-company acquisitions, particularly in Latin America and Europe. Hicks, Muse also has holdings in manufacturing, real estate, and other sectors.

 COMPETITION
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 DEALS
Deal: Despegar.com Raises Round of Funding
Date Announced: 05.25.00
Value of transaction (US $Mil): 10.5
Description: Latin American travel site raises $10.5 million in first round.

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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Employees: 85

 KEY PEOPLE
• Thomas O. Hicks
    CEO
• Darron Ash
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
200 Crescent Ct., Ste. 1600
Dallas, TX 75201
US
Phone: 214-740-7300
Fax: 214-720-7888

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