Trimaran Capital Partners

Profile

Trimaran Capital Partners (“Trimaran”) is a private investment firm based in New York. Founded in 1998, Trimaran and its affiliated entities have managed private equity funds; collateralized bond and loan obligation funds; and hedge funds that invested in public and private debt and equity securities.

Trimaran Fund Management (“Trimaran” or the “Firm”) is a middle market private equity firm. We seek long-term capital appreciation by making privately negotiated equity or equity-oriented investments in niche middle-market companies. Trimaran typically invests $25 to $100 million of equity in transactions ranging in value from under $100 million to $1 billion.

We are experienced investors. Since 1995, we have invested $1.6 billion of equity in more than 60 portfolio companies in transactions totaling in excess of $10 billion.

Trimaran has invested in a variety of other industries, ranging from growth and technology-oriented investments to highly-structured project and infrastructure investments to deep value investments and turn-arounds. The subject companies in these acquisitions spanned a variety of industries including energy, infrastructure, telecom/media, technology, consumer products and services, financial services, and manufacturing.

We have been an innovator. Trimaran and its predecessor were early investors in telecom and Internet businesses such as Global Crossing Ltd. and TeleBank Financial Corporation. We led the first LBO of an integrated electric utility, TNP Enterprises, which was the parent of Texas-New Mexico Power Company. We have made ground-breaking investments in electric transmission through ITC Holdings Corp, which became the largest independent transmission company under our ownership.