- Oak Hill Capital Partners
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Not to be confused with Oak Investment Partners, Oaktree Capital Management.
Oak Hill Capital Partners 
Type Private Ownership Industry Private Equity Founded 1986 Founder(s) Robert Bass Headquarters Stamford, Connecticut, United States Products Private equity funds, Leveraged buyouts Total assets $4.1 billion Employees 50+ Website www.oakhillcapital.com Oak Hill Capital Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in New York, New York with more than $7 billion of committed capital from leading entrepreneurs, endowments, foundations, corporations, pension funds and global financial institutions. Robert Bass is the lead investor.
Oak Hill Capital is one of several Oak Hill partnerships, each of which has an independent management team. These Oak Hill partnerships comprise over $18 billion of investment capital across multiple asset classes, including private equity, special situations, high yield and bank debt, venture capital, real estate and a public equity exchange fund.
On April 20, 2010 the company announced acquisition of Denver based data center company ViaWest Inc. for an undisclosed amount. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter.
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Notable investors
Robert Bass, who was and early investor in leveraged buyouts in the 1980s and employed David Bonderman and Jim Coulter the founders of Texas Pacific Group, is the lead investor in Oak Hill Capital Partners.
The company has garnered widespread media attention due to its addition of investors Bill Gates and Nike founder Phil Knight.[1]
Notable investments
Over a period of nearly twenty years, Oak Hill Capital has invested in more than fifty significant private equity transactions, including:
- Ariel
- Atlantic Broadband
- Genpact
- The Container Store
- Butler Animal Health Supply
- EXLService
- Progressive Moulded Products
- TravelCenters of America
- WideOpenWest
- Blackboard Inc.
- American Savings Bank (Washington Mutual)
- Bell & Howell (Proquest)
- Oreck Corporation
- Vertex Data Science
- eGain
- Wometco Cable Corporation
- Alibris
- Dave & Buster's
Investment Professionals
Managing Partners
- J. Taylor Crandall
- Steven B. Gruber
- Denis J. Nayden
- Mark A. Wolfson
Partners
- Ted Dardani
- Benjamin Diesbach
- Jonathan E. Friesel
- Michael S. Green
- Stratton R. Heath III
- Douglas M. Kaden
- John P. Malfettone
- John R. Monsky
- Robert L. Morse Jr.
- William J. Pade
- Charles B. Patton
- Rowan G. P. Taylor
- Tyler J. Wolfram
Principals
- Scott A. Baker
- Harry L. Eichelberger
- Scott B. Kauffman
- Kevin M. Mailender
- David S. Scott
- Michael J. Warren
Vice Presidents
- John P. Rachwalski
Associates
- Andrew J. Hendel
- Christopher H. Kempner
- Claire M. Messner
- Jeffrey R. Mettam
- Anders P. Meyerhoff
- Jacopo F. Nadal
- Ted Rosenwasser
- Ryan S. Schafer
- Roman Valiouline
- Michael W. Vaupen
- Jason H. Veldhuis
- Andrea T. Weslosky
- Christopher M. Williams
Television station properties
The company owns 9 television stations formerly owned by The New York Times Company. Those stations, which are operated under a holding company known as Local TV, are as follows:
DMA Rank Market Station ... Channel (DT) Network 42. Norfolk WTKR-TV 3 (40) CBS 44. Memphis WREG 3 (28) CBS 46. Oklahoma City KFOR 4 (27) NBC KAUT 43 (40) MyNetworkTV 53. Scranton / Wilkes-Barre WNEP 16 (49) ABC 73. Des Moines WHO 13 (19) NBC 84. Huntsville/Decatur WHNT 19 (59) CBS 96. Moline / Rock Island / Davenport WQAD 8 (38) ABC 102. Fort Smith / Fayetteville KFSM 5 (18) CBS Oak Hill also recently acquired the following eight Fox network affiliates from News Corporation for $1.1 billion, a deal announced December 22, 2007 and completed on July 14, 2008:[2][3]:
DMA Rank City of License/Market Station ... Channel (DT) Owned by News
Corporation Since17. Cleveland - Akron WJW-TV 8 (31) 1997 18. Denver KDVR 31 (32) 1993 21. St. Louis KTVI 2 (43) 1997 31. Kansas City, Missouri WDAF-TV 4 (34) 1997 34. Milwaukee WITI-TV 6 (33) 1997 35. Salt Lake City KSTU 13 (28) 1990 40. Birmingham - Tuscaloosa, AL WBRC-TV 6 (50) 1995 46. High Point - Greensboro -
Winston-Salem, N.C.WGHP 8 (35) 1995 References
- ^ businessweek.com, February 28, 2005 Business Week article
- ^ News Corp. to Sell U.S. TV Stations for $1.1 billion
- ^ Oak Hill Capital Partners Completes Acquisition of Eight Television Stations from News Corporation
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