Middle and Upper-Middle Market Focus
MDP pursues investments in established middle and upper-middle market companies located primarily in the United States.
Over the last 40 years...
MDP has a history in Chicago that dates back to the early 1980s when its founders built a $2.6 billion management buyout and venture capital portfolio at First Chicago Venture Capital. Since the founders established MDP as an independent firm in 1992, the firm has raised aggregate capital of over $31 billion, and has completed investments in more than 160 companies.
MDP’s industry-focused investment approach has been in place for nearly 40 years. The firm has four dedicated industry verticals: Basic Industries; Financial & Transaction Services; Healthcare; and Technology & Government.
Today, Madison Dearborn is investing its eighth fund, Madison Dearborn Capital Partners VIII, which has $5.0 billion in aggregate capital commitments. Our investor base is composed of limited partners from across the globe, including endowments, foundations, family offices, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds.
Sector Expertise
We have built a long and successful track record investing within four industry sectors across multiple economic, capital markets and industry cycles. Our industry team leaders have substantially spent their entire careers dedicated to a single industry, and have significant experience investing and operating in specific industry sectors.
Leading Midwest Franchise
We are deeply involved in the Chicago and Midwest business, civic and philanthropic communities, and our firm benefits from a strong reputation and unique set of contacts and relationships cultivated during the last four decades.
Flexible Investment Approach
We have achieved long-term success pursuing both buyout and growth equity transactions. We employ an investment style that focuses primarily on the quality of the business, its prospects and its leadership, and only secondarily on the type of investment structure, which can include both control and minority positions.
