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rom 1990 to 2000, the Blue Point professionals conducted private equity
buyout activities on behalf of KeyCorp, as Key Equity Capital. Established in
1990 with a single office in Cleveland, we grew to be the prominent private equity firm
in the Midwest region of the United States. Our strategy of becoming the dominant
private equity group within a region has enhanced the quantity of investment
opportunities reviewed and the quality of the investment opportunities that we have
realized over the last decade.
This strategy has been successfully replicated in the Pacific Northwest
(1996) and Southeast (1998), where Blue Point has become one of the largest sources
of resident private equity capital in each of these regions. Our approach has been
validated through experience, since many regional middle market companies are often
overlooked by money center-based investment firms.
 In 2000, the entire investment team of Key Equity Capital formed Blue Point
Capital Partners, with the support and investment of KeyCorp. Blue Point Capital
Partners Fund, L.P. was closed in mid-2002 with $415 million of investment capital.
Investors in Blue Point include leading U.S. endowments, pension funds, family
offices, financial institutions and several prominent foreign investment funds.
In 2004, Blue Point Capital established a liaison office in Shanghai, China as
a resource to assist its existing and future North American based portfolio
companies in evaluating and executing Asian strategies. Today, the Blue Point
team has more than 125 years of investment experience among its team of more
than 20 professionals across four offices. |
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