Banyan Capital Partners, a leading Canadian middle market private equity firm, is pleased to announce it has closed the fundraising for its first tranche of committed capital at $216 million in a newly created evergreen fund, Banyan Committed Capital LP. Funding was provided by high net worth investors of Connor Clark & Lunn Private Capital Ltd., Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group Ltd., and the principals of Banyan. With this first committed capital raise, Banyan aims to build a sustainable, diversified portfolio of value-oriented private equity investments.
Banyan will seek to make equity investments in the range of $10 million to $50 million in businesses with an established track record of generating annual EBITDA in the general range of $5 million to $15 million. Additional fundamental characteristics of targeted businesses include; a Canadian or U.S. headquarters, a clear competitive advantage, identifiable growth opportunities and the existence of, or potential to, generate significant free cash-flow.
Since 2008, Banyan has invested over $190 million across seven platform investments and completed an additional 10 add-on acquisitions across a breadth of industries.
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