Leeds Equity Partners is a private equity firm

Private equity firm

A private equity firm is an investment manager that makes investments in the private equity of operating companies through a variety of loosely affiliated investment strategies including leveraged buyout, venture capital, and growth capital...

 focused on investments in the Knowledge Industries. The Firm is currently investing its fifth private equity fund

Private equity fund

A private equity fund is a collective investment scheme used for making investments in various equity securities according to one of the investment strategies associated with private equity....

, Leeds Equity Partners V, L.P., the largest fund focused exclusively on investing in this sector, an estimated $3.5 trillion domestic market. The Firm's investors include a broad range of leading institutions, public and private pension plans, endowments, foundations, financial institutions, family offices and high net worth individuals.

History

The Firm was founded in 1993 by Jeffrey T. Leeds and Robert A. Bernstein and raised its first private equity fund in 1995. In 2010, the firm established Leeds Global Partners which provides education advisory and implementation services. A distinguished group of individuals serves on the Advisory Board:

• General Colin L. Powell
  Colin Powell
  Colin Luther Powell is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African American to serve in that position. During his military...
  
  
• Timothy J. Fitzpatrick
• Thomas F. McLarty
  Mack McLarty
  Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty III is a prominent Arkansas business and political leader and former White House Chief of Staff for US President Bill Clinton...
  
  
• Barry A. Munitz, Ph.D.
  Barry Munitz
  Barry Allen Munitz has been a senior administrator at the University of Illinois and the University of Houston, a business executive at Maxxam, Inc., chancellor of the California State University system, and chief executive officer of the world's wealthiest art institution, the J...
  
  
• Roderick R. Paige, Ph.D.
  Rod Paige
  Roderick Raynor "Rod" Paige served as the 7th United States Secretary of Education from 2001 to 2005. Paige, who grew up in Mississippi, built a career on a belief that education equalizes opportunity, moving from classroom teacher to college dean and school superintendent to be the first African...
  
  
• Guillermo Nigaglioni
• Richard W. Riley
  Richard Riley
  Richard Wilson Riley , American politician, was United States Secretary of Education under President Bill Clinton and the 111th Governor of South Carolina. He is a member of the Democratic Party....
  
  
• Timothy P. Shriver, Ph.D.

Investment Funds

• Advance Capital Partners, L.P.
• Leeds Equity Partners II, L.P.
• Leeds Equity Partners III, L.P.
• Leeds Equity Partners IV, L.P.
• Leeds Equity Partners V, L.P.

Selected Investments

• BarBri Inc.
  BarBri
  BarBri is a company in the United States that offers a widely used bar exam preparation course. A majority of American recipients of a Juris Doctor degree attend a six-week BarBri course, which features lectures by law professors on the six major areas covered on the Multistate Bar Examination —...
  
  - The premier bar exam test preparation provider in the United States, serving a majority of bar exam test takers each year
• Campus Management Corp.
  Campus Management Corp.
  Campus Management Corp. is a private company that provides software solutions and services to more than 1,700 colleges, universities, foundations, and other companies. Over 75% of the largest US-based proprietary and online colleges use Campus Management's student information system to unite...
  
  - A provider of administrative software systems to higher education institutions, non-profits, community service and health care organizations
• Datamark, Inc.- A provider of data-driven enrollment marketing services exclusively to higher education
• Education Management Corporation
  Education Management Corporation
  Education Management Corporation is an operator of private for-profit post-secondary educational institutions, primarily in the United States. The company's institutions provide primarily career-focused educational programs...
  
  - The second largest provider of private career-focused postsecondary education in North America
• EduK Group- The largest for-profit provider of post-secondary education in Puerto Rico and with a growing presence in the mainland United States
• eInstruction
  Einstruction
  eInstruction designs, manufactures and markets teaching and assessment tools. It is based in the United States.-History:eInstruction was founded in 1980 by university computer science professor Dr. Darrell Ward who pioneered the use of student response systems in education , with the creation of a...
  
  - A leading provider of proprietary content-based assessment systems designed to improve student academic performance and increase effectiveness of instructors, administrators and parents
• Ex Libris- A leading provider of enterprise software solutions for academic, research and national libraries, offering the only comprehensive product suite for the discovery, management, and distribution of electronic, digital and print materials
• Miller Heiman, Inc.- A leading provider of sales performance improvement solutions that enable its clients to fundamentally improve the effectiveness of their sales organizations
• Nobel Learning Communities, Inc.- A leading provider of preschool and K-12 education through over 180 nonsectarian private schools and its global private online K-12 online K-12 college preparatory school
• RealPage, Inc.- A leading provider of a broad range of property management solutions for apartment communities and single family rentals enabling property owners and managers to increase revenues and reduce operating costs
• Ross University
  Ross University
  Ross University, founded in 1978, is a for-profit college offering degrees in Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. The School of Medicine is located in Dominica, in the West Indies, with clinical education centers in Miami, Florida, Saginaw, Michigan and Freeport, Bahamas. The...
  
  - One of the largest and most successful medical educators in the world with medical school campus in Dominica
• Sagus International
  Sagus International
  Sagus International is an American furniture manufacturer that has been the subject of nationwide news coverage regarding their charitable efforts toward improving classroom infrastructure. Sagus’ core business is the manufacture of furniture and casework for the educational, hospitality, health...
  
  - A manufacturer of furniture and casework for the educational, commercial, pharmaceutical and hospitality markets
• SeatonCorp- A leading provider of staffing solutions for Fortune 500 companies that use contingent labor and high turnover permanent labor

External links

• Leeds Equity Partners (company website)