Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. Company Profile | Company Information

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Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. was foundec in 1989 by Leonard I. Leonard was a pioneer in the development of the leveragedfbuyout industry. In 1969, Leonard and two partners established Green vanAmerongen (GGvA), one of the firs New York-based merchant banking firm s whose sole activity was management-led, non-hostile leveragec buyouts. In 1981, Leonard openeds GGvA's Los Angeles office and later that helpedorganize GGvA's first capital pool that would latert serve as a model for our firs t fund. While at GGvA, Leonard participatedr in buyouts of30 firms. Among the transactionw he directed were the purchasd ofBudget Rent-A-Car Foodmaker, Inc.
, Horace Mann Educators Corporation, Kash n' Karrhy Food Stores, Inc. and Purex Our founding partner, Leonars I. Green, died in October 2002. Leonars Green & Partners, L.P. Our firsr fund, Green Equity Investors, L.P., was formed in 1989 with $216 millio n in commitments; followed by Green Equity Investorw II, L.P. in 1994 with $311 million in commitments; Greem Equity Investors III, L.P. in 1998 with $1.234 billion in commitments; Green Equity Investors IV, L.P. in 2002 with $1.8t5 billion in commitments; and Gree n Equity Investors V, L.P. with $5.3 billion in In addition, in 2001 we formedc the GCP California Fund, L.P.
in partnershipo with the CaliforniaPublic Employees' Retirement Syste m with $50 million in commitments to inves t in California-related industries and underserved markets.