Investment Summary

TowerBrook Capital Partners Invests In KeHE

On May 17, 2019, private equity firm TowerBrook Capital Partners invested in food company KeHE

Investment Highlights
  • This is TowerBrook Capital Partners’ 2nd transaction in the Food sector.
  • This is TowerBrook Capital Partners’ 29th transaction in the United States.
  • This is TowerBrook Capital Partners’ 3rd transaction in Illinois.

Investment Summary
Date 2019-05-17
Target KeHE
Sector Food
Investor(s) TowerBrook Capital Partners
Deal Type Stake Purchase
Advisor(s) BMO Capital Markets (Financial)
Winston & Strawn (Legal)

Target

KeHE

Naperville, Illinois, United States
KeHE provides natural & organic, specialty & fresh products to chain and independent grocery and natural food stores and other specialty product retailers throughout North America. KeHE is an employee-owned, B Corporation certified, company with over 5,000 employees in the U.S. and Canada. KeHE was founded in 1952 and is based in Naperville, Illinois.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

TowerBrook Capital Partners

New York, New York, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2001
PE ASSETS 17.4B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

TowerBrook Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyouts, leveraged build-ups and distressed situation investments throughout North America and Europe. TowerBrook prefers control-oriented investments and actively pursues complex situations that other firms may avoid. Target sectors include consumer services, distribution, beverages, pharmaceuticals, media, technology, communications, software, and healthcare. TowerBrook Capital Partners was established in 2001 and is headquartered in New York City.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 64 of 99
Sector (Food) 2 of 5
Type (Stake Purchase) 7 of 12
State (Illinois) 3 of 3
Country (United States) 29 of 44
Year (2019) 4 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-04-03 SMG

Dallas, Texas, United States

SMG is a pure play dine-in theater chain in the U.S., operating over 30 cinemas across the country. The company has modernized the traditional movie-going experience by combining first-run movies with immersive, full-service, in-theater dining. SMG’s corporate mission is to “open hearts and minds, one story at a time”, and the Company has committed significant resources to give back to the communities in which it operates. SMG was founded in 1993 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-05-22 Metallo Group

Beerse, Belgium

Metallo Group is a refiner and recycler of secondary metals, principally copper and tin. Over 350,000 tons of raw materials are recycled annually through the different stages of Metallo’s recycling processes and returned back into the value chain with zero waste. Metallo Group was founded in 1919 and is based in Beerse, Belgium.

Sell €380M
Mergr

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Legal