private ownership industry private equity founder angus c. littlejohn jr. headquarters greenwich connecticut united states products private equity funds leveraged buyouts distressed securities total assets 4.9 billion 1 website www.littlejohnllc.com littlejohn & co. is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout transactions leveraged recapitalizations of middle market companies and distressed securities . the firm focuses on companies requiring an operational turnaround particularly in a variety of industrial and service sectors . the firm is based in greenwich connecticut and was founded in 1996 by angus c. littlejohn jr. contents 1 history 2 funds raised 3 portfolio companies 4 references 5 external links history edit in 1996 angus littlejohn resigned from joseph littlejohn & levy today known as jll partners to form a new private investment firm with michael klein littlejohn & co. jll underwent significant turnover as the following year co founder peter joseph also left the firm . 2 littlejohn traces its roots back to gilliam joseph & littlejohn a merchant bank founded in 1987 by angus c. littlejohn jr. along with william j. gilliam and peter a. joseph . littlejohn had previously worked with his two co founders the quadrex corporation a small new york brokerage firm . in 1988 paul s. levy formerly a managing director at drexel burnham lambert focusing on corporate restructurings and exchange offers was recruited to join the firm which was renamed gilliam joseph littlejohn & levy and later joseph littlejohn & levy when gilliam was forced to leave the partnership in 1989 . 3 in july 2014 littlejohn & co held a final close for its fifth fund on its hard cap of 2 billion . 4 funds raised edit since its founding littlejohn has raised five main private equity funds as well as an annex fund and a distressed securities fund with investor commitments totaling 4.9 billion 1997 littlejohn fund i 200 million 1999 littlejohn fund ii 530 million 2005 littlejohn fund iii 650 million 2007 littlejohn fund iii add on 200 million 2010 littlejohn fund iv 1.34 billion 2014 littlejohn fund v 2.0 billion portfolio companies edit the following is a selected list of notable companies in which littlejohn has invested durakon industries 5 foodbrands america inc. polymer corporation 6 psc inc. 7 van houtte 8 wyle laboratories 9 references edit funds raised since inception including annex funds and distressed debt fund raised in 2007 stocks . bloomberg.com . retrieved 23 september 2016 . alison leigh cowan january 22 1989 . divorce wall street style . new york times . exclusive littlejohn closes fund v on 2 bln hard cap pe hub . www.pehub.com . 9 july 2014 . retrieved 23 september 2016 . durakon maker of truck bed liners to be acquired june 19 1999 littlejohn to buy intertape polymer may 2 2007 . psc reaches restructuring agreement with littlejohn & co. llc ; affiliates of littlejohn acquire all outstanding debt . business wire nov 22 2002 private equity firm buying van houtte connecticut based littlejohn & co. plans privatization by luann lasalle of canadian press the toronto star may 8 2007 retrieved on may 23 2007 littlejohn & co. portfolio company wyle announces acquisition of rs information systems . reuters jan 18 2008 external links edit littlejohn & co. company website v t e private equity and venture capital investment firms investment strategy venture growth mezzanine secondaries leveraged buyout history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s investors angel investor corporate venture capital commercial bank crowdfunding institutional investor insurance company investment bank endowment family office fund of funds high net worth individual merchant bank pension fund sovereign wealth fund private equity firms venture capital firms portfolio companies retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title littlejohn % 26 co. & oldid 740869406 categories private equity firms of the united statescompanies established in 1987companies based in fairfield county connecticuthidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 23 september 2016 at 21 01 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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