NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm that targets the healthcare, education, and business services industries, today announced the successful final close of VSS Structured Capital Fund IV (“VSS SC IV”) at $530 million, exceeding its target of $400 million. The fund received strong support from existing as well as new institutional investors, including insurers, pensions, asset managers, foundations, endowments and select family offices.
“The current inflationary and recession-prone market environment bodes particularly well for structured capital funds, given the dilutive nature of many equity-only solutions that become less attractive in recessionary environments,” said Jeffrey Stevenson, Managing Partner of VSS. “Coupled with our differentiated sector focus, decades of experience and strong industry relationships, we are confident about the opportunities that lay ahead to deploy capital for this fund.”
“We are pleased to have closed VSS SC IV at the hard cap, with the opportunity to build on VSS’s legacy of top-quartile1 Structured Capital funds,” said Lacey Mehran, Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations at VSS. “The interest we’ve seen from investors reflects our proven ability to consistently generate attractive risk-adjusted returns across economic cycles by providing a hybrid solution to companies seeking a capital partner to facilitate their next stage of growth.”
VSS’s Structured Capital strategy represents a unique hybrid approach, providing a combination of debt and equity to growth-oriented, lower middle market companies within healthcare, education, and business services. The strategy offers the combination of non-control junior capital with the benefits of active partnership and industry expertise. The Structured Capital funds aim to achieve substantial and consistent risk-adjusted returns with the downside protection associated with debt and traditional mezzanine investments and the potential for upside gain associated with private equity investing.
About VSS
VSS is a private investment firm that invests in the healthcare, education, and business services industries. Headquartered in New York, VSS provides capital for growth financing, recapitalizations, strategic acquisitions, and buyouts to lower middle market companies and management teams with the goal of building companies organically as well as through a focused add-on acquisition program. VSS makes privately negotiated investments across the capital structure and invests in situations requiring control or non-control equity, mezzanine securities, and structured equity securities. VSS has over three decades of experience, made investments in 95 portfolio companies, with over 400 add-on acquisitions, and manages $4 billion in aggregate committed capital across 8 funds. For more information, please visit: www.vss.com.
1 Performance benchmark information sources include Preqin. Performance comparisons take into account the percentage of capital distributed to limited partners, the return on called capital multiple, and net IRR. Past performance is not an indication of future results.
