History
- Successful track record of investing in middle-market companies
- Founded in 1947 as the family office of William Rosenwald, heir to the Sears Roebuck & Co. fortune
- In the late 1980s, transitioned from family office into a third-party money management firm capitalizing on relationships developed with other wealthy families as well as select institutions
- In 1994, American Securities formalized its private equity activity to include non-Rosenwald family investors
Numbers
- 23 investment professionals in U.S.
- 19 Resources Group professionals
- 15 professionals in Shanghai
- Investments are funded from more than $8 billion of committed capital
- 38 stand-alone portfolio companies over past 17 years and numerous add-on acquisitions
- 22 current portfolio companies
- Nearly $7 billion combined revenue of current portfolio companies
- More than 18,000 employees of current portfolio companies located in 12 countries
- American Securities Funds: ASP I (effective 12/94); ASP II (effective 6/98); ASP III (effective 7/01); ASP IV (effective 10/05); ASP V (effective 9/08)
- Affiliate Funds: American Securities Opportunities Fund, American Securities China, ICV Partners
Industry Groups
Consumer
- General Consumer
- Restaurants
Healthcare
Industrial
- General Industrial
- Aerospace & Defense
- Agriculture
- Environmental/Recycling
- Paper & Packaging
- Power & Energy
- Specialty Chemicals
Services, Information & Media
Types of Investors
- Entrepreneurial and wealthy families
- Endowments & foundations
- Select institutions
Locations
Headquartered in New York with an office in Shanghai
American Securities
299 Park Avenue, 34th Floor
New York, NY 10171
Main Phone: (212) 476-8000
Main Fax: (212) 697-5524
American Securities China
China Insurance Building
166 Lujiazui Road East
Suite 2008
Shanghai 200120
China
Main Phone: +86 (21) 6841-9779
Main Fax: +86 (21) 6841-9154