& co type private ownership industry private equity founded 1985 founder nigel doughty and richard hanson headquarters london united kingdom products private equity funds leveraged buyouts total assets 8 billion website doughtyhanson.com doughty hanson & co is a british private equity fund manager focused on leveraged buyout and recapitalization transactions primarily of upper middle market companies in europe . the firm also invests opportunistically in european real estate and provides early stage venture capital to technology companies . doughty hanson is headquartered in london and has offices in frankfurt madrid milan munich paris and stockholm . the firm which was founded in 1985 by nigel doughty and richard hanson is one of the oldest european buyout private equity firms . citation needed since its inception the firm has invested over 23 billion across more than 100 investments . on 4 february 2012 doughty was found dead in the gymnasium of his lincolnshire home . 1 on monday august 10 they announced they were shutting down most of their european offices after abandoning their next round of funding the closed offices include paris frankfurt madrid and stockholm . 2 contents 1 history 2 investment strategy 2.1 responsible investing 3 investment funds 4 portfolio companies 5 notable alumni 6 references 7 external links history edit doughty hanson traces its history back to 1985 when nigel doughty and richard dick hanson started working together on european buyout investments within standard chartered bank as founding members of its management buyout unit . in 1990 they established cwb partners a private equity joint venture between standard chartered and westdeutsche landesbank . doughty hanson was established as an independent firm in 1995 . in 1999 the group expanded its activities with the formation of a real estate investment team and the following year it established a team to focus on early stage technology venture capital investing . investment strategy edit doughty hanson s three product areas operate as separate fund families private equity doughty hanson s buyout team focuses on majority ownership and control of market leading businesses at the upper end of the european middle market with enterprise values between 250m and 1bn . real estate doughty hanson is an opportunistic investor and developer active in the office retail and logistics sectors . investments range from the acquisition of existing single assets and portfolios to more complex developments and urban regeneration projects . technology ventures the doughty hanson technology ventures team targets technology companies within three industry sectors internet software mobile communications and clean energy technology . responsible investing edit in june 2007 doughty hanson became one of the first private equity signatories to the united nations principles for responsible investment unpri which provide a framework for incorporating environmental social and governance esg issues into investment decision making and ownership practices . a year later the firm became the first private equity manager in europe to hire a dedicated head of sustainability to focus on the implementation management and monitoring of esg issues across the doughty hanson portfolio . citation needed investment funds edit since inception doughty hanson has raised over 8 billion across its five private equity funds . 3 the following is a summary of the investment funds raised to date by doughty hanson fund vintage year committed capital millions private equity fund i 1990 167 private equity fund ii 1995 dm 1 000 private equity fund iii 1998 2 700 real estate fund i 2000 616 technology ventures fund i 2000 237 private equity fund iv 2004 1 500 real estate fund ii 2005 530 private equity fund v 2007 3 000 in 2007 doughty completed fundraising for its fifth private equity fund with 3.0 billion of investor commitments . 4 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 . 5 doughty hanson iii raised in 1997 had been a 2.7 billion investment fund . portfolio companies edit the following investments are representative of doughty hanson s portfolio of private companies the rhm group rhm was among the leading food manufacturing groups in the uk . originally founded in 1899 rhm was acquired by doughty hanson in 2000 and listed on the london stock exchange in july 2005 . citation needed priory healthcare is the largest independent provider of mental health and rehabilitation services in the uk . priory was acquired by doughty hanson in 2002 and was sold in july 2005 in a transaction valued at 875m . citation needed saft groupe s.a. saft is a manufacturer of high end batteries for a wide range of niche applications including aviation railway industrial stand by defence and emergency lighting . saft was acquired by doughty hanson in 2004 and the company was listed on euronext paris in june 2005 . citation needed moeller moeller is one of the largest globally active manufacturers of low voltage electrical distribution and automation components for industrial commercial and residential applications . moeller was acquired by doughty hanson in 2005 and sold in april 2008 in a transaction valued at 1.65 billion . other notable investments include tmf group tv3 ireland tumi inc. dunlop standard aerospace group caudwell group and lm wind power . notable alumni edit james max journalist and radio presenter specialising in business issues and was a semi finalist on the first series of the british version of the apprentice television programme . mark florman founder and former ceo of maizels westerberg & co. references edit nottingham forest owner nigel doughty found dead . bbc sport . 4 february 2012 . retrieved 4 february 2012 . pritchard becky 10 august 2015 . u.k. buyout firm doughty hanson shuts raft of european offices . the wall street journal . this does not include commitments to doughty hanson & co s real estate venture capital and other investment funds doughty hanson fund v closes on 3bn european doughty hanson to return e175m to investors external links edit doughty hanson & co company website v t e private equity and venture capital basic investment types buyout venture mezzanine growth secondaries equity co investment 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 terms and concepts buyout financial sponsor management buyout divisional buyout buy sell agreement leveraged recapitalization dividend recapitalization venture angel investor business incubator post money valuation pre money valuation seed money startup company venture capital financing venture debt venture round structure private equity firms and funds limited partnership limited liability company carried interest management fee publicly traded private equity business development company venture capital trust private investment in public equity pipe pledge fund investors corporations institutional investors pension funds insurance companies fund of funds endowments foundations investment banks merchant banks commercial banks high net worth individuals family offices sovereign wealth funds crowdfunding related financial terms aum cap table capital call capital commitment capital structure distribution waterfall ebitda envy ratio high yield debt ipo irr leverage liquidation preference m & a pme taxation of private equity and hedge funds undercapitalization vintage year private equity and venture capital investors private equity firms venture capital firms angel investors portfolio companies v t e largest private equity investment firms 3i group aac capital partners advent international alpinvest partners american capital apax partners apollo global management ares management bain capital bc partners berkshire partners the blackstone group bridgepoint capital candover the carlyle group ccmp capital cerberus capital management charterhouse capital partners cinven clayton dubilier & rice cvc capital partners doughty hanson & co encap investments eqt partners first reserve corporation fortress investment group general atlantic goldman sachs capital partners gtcr hellman & friedman h.i.g. capital jrk property holdings kkr trilantic capital partners leonard green & partners madison dearborn partners nordic capital oak investment partners oaktree capital management onex teachers private capital pacific equity partners pai partners permira providence equity partners sentinel capital partners silver lake partners summit partners sun capital partners ta associates terra firma capital partners thomas h. lee partners tpg capital warburg pincus welsh carson anderson & stowe private equity private equity firms venture capital firms 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