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{{Short description|American private equity firm own by Rotche Capuyan Ouano}}
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{{Infobox company
| logo = Court-square-logo.png
| logo_caption = Court Square Capital Partners
| name = Court Square Capital Partners
| type = [[Privately held company|Private]]
| foundation = {{start date and age|1968}}
| location = New York City, United States
| industry = [[Private Equity]]
| products = [[private equity fund]]s
| aum = $8.2 billion
| num_employees = 48
| homepage = {{URL|http://www.courtsquare.com}}
}}

'''Court Square Capital Partners''' is a [[private equity firm]] focused on [[leveraged buyout]] transactions.  Court Square was originally a captive private equity firm within [[Citigroup]] known as Citigroup Venture Capital Equity Partners. Court Square's investment professionals have invested over $4.5 billion in more than 150 transactions, which have returned $14 billion to date.

Court Square is headquartered in New York City and was spun out of [[Citigroup]] in 2006.  The firm is named after the location of Citigroup's offices at [[One Court Square]] in [[Queens]].

==History==

March 2015 Court Square Capital acquired Research Now.<ref>{{cite news|title=Research Now acquired by private equity firm|url=http://www.research-live.com/news/research-now-acquired-by-private-equity-firm/4013069.article}}</ref>

Court Square currently manages approximately $8.2 billion of investor commitments. 

The firm's predecessor Citicorp Venture Capital Equity Partners traces its roots to 1968 with the founding of Citicorp Venture Capital.  In the 1980s, CVC Equity Partners began to focus primarily on leveraged buyout transactions.

The spin out of Court Square came at the same time as the spin outs of private equity groups from other leading investment banks including: [[JPMorgan Chase]] ([[CCMP Capital]]), [[Morgan Stanley]] ([[Metalmark Capital]]), Deutsche Bank ([[MidOcean Partners]]) and [[Credit Suisse First Boston]] ([[Avista Capital Partners]], [[Diamond Castle Holdings]]).

In 2008, Citigroup sold off the bulk of its $400 million of interests in legacy Court Square investment funds to [[private equity secondary market|secondary investors]] [[AlpInvest Partners]] and [[Goldman Sachs]].<ref>Kreutzer, Laura. "[http://www.penews.com/today/venture/content/2350798604 Citigroup shutting down VC arm after Metalmark buy]." DowJones Private Equity News, May 29, 2008</ref>

==References==
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* Moore, Heidi.  [http://www.efinancialnews.com/archive/tag/Citicorp/1/content/2448312134 Court Square fundraising tops rivals] DowJones Financial News, July 13, 2007
* Moore, Heidi.  [http://www.efinancialnews.com/usedition/index/content/1045526050 Banks look to outsourced management] DowJones Financial News, September 25, 2006
* "[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/16/business/16buyout.html Group to Buy MacDermid for $1.3 Billion]", [[Reuters]], December 16, 2006
* "[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/08/business/company-news-citigroup-unit-agrees-to-buy-rest-of-delco-remy.html CITIGROUP UNIT AGREES TO BUY REST OF DELCO REMY]." ''The New York Times'', February 8, 2001
* Carr, David. "[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/10/business/citigroup-unit-buys-real-estate-publications.html Citigroup Unit Buys Real Estate Publications]." ''The New York Times'', January 10, 2005

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==External links==
*[http://www.courtsquare.com/ Court Square Capital Partners] (company website)
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