ABRY Partners
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ABRY Partners is a private equity
Private equity
Private equity, in finance, is an asset class consisting of equity securities in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange....

 firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts that focuses on investments in media. Since 1989, the firm has completed over $18.0 billion of leveraged transactions and other private equity and mezzanine investments, representing investments in more than 450 media properties.

Current and previous areas of investment include cable television
Cable television
Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...

, publishing, radio and television broadcasting, and other media and communications sectors.
Notable past, present, and future investments include Cygnus Business Media
Cygnus business media
Cygnus Business Media is a diversified microcap business-to-business media company, providing 1.7 million readers annually, according to the company, with more than 150 business media options, including business publications, trade shows, online opportunities, custom publications, directories,...

, Nexstar Broadcasting Group
Nexstar Broadcasting Group
Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., is an entity of broadcast television stations headquartered in Irving, Texas. The company consists of 50 television stations across the U.S., ranging from market sizes 9 to 201 . 43 of the stations are broadcasting at full power, with the other 4 broadcasting at...

, Muzak Holdings, Legendary Pictures
Legendary Pictures
Legendary Pictures is an American film production company, whose parent company, Legendary Entertainment, is based in Burbank, California and was founded by Thomas Tull in 2004...

, Consolidated Theatres
Consolidated Theatres
Consolidated Theatres was a movie theater chain based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company operated over 400 movie screens and 28 theaters in 6 states along the East Coast.It was part of "The Stone Group" and was founded by Herman Stone....

, F+W Media, Language Line, Citadel Broadcasting
Citadel Broadcasting
Citadel Broadcasting Corporation was a Las Vegas, Nevada-based broadcast holding company. Citadel owned 243 radio stations across the United States and was the third-largest radio station owner in the country...

, Monitronics
Monitronics
Monitronics International was founded in 1994 and is one of the three largest security alarm monitoring companies in the United States. Headquartered in Dallas, the company provides burglar and fire alarm monitored security system services approximately 800,000 residential and commercial customers...

 and RCN Corporation
RCN Corporation
RCN Corporation, founded in 1993 and based in Herndon, Virginia, is the first American facilities-based competitive provider of bundled telephone, cable television and high-speed internet service delivered over its own fiber-optic local network to consumers in the Boston, New York, Eastern...



Senior Investment Professionals at ABRY Include: Andrew Banks, Royce Yudkoff, Peggy Koenig, Jay Grossman, Erik Brooks, Peni Garber and John Hunt.

In October 2010,ABRY Partners acquisition of Outsourced staffing provider 'Comforce Corp' (CFS) for $84.8 million.

Selected Investments

Notable past investments include Cygnus Business Media
Cygnus business media
Cygnus Business Media is a diversified microcap business-to-business media company, providing 1.7 million readers annually, according to the company, with more than 150 business media options, including business publications, trade shows, online opportunities, custom publications, directories,...

, F+W Media, Muzak Holdings, Legendary Pictures
Legendary Pictures
Legendary Pictures is an American film production company, whose parent company, Legendary Entertainment, is based in Burbank, California and was founded by Thomas Tull in 2004...

, Consolidated Theatres
Consolidated Theatres
Consolidated Theatres was a movie theater chain based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company operated over 400 movie screens and 28 theaters in 6 states along the East Coast.It was part of "The Stone Group" and was founded by Herman Stone....

 and Citadel Broadcasting
Citadel Broadcasting
Citadel Broadcasting Corporation was a Las Vegas, Nevada-based broadcast holding company. Citadel owned 243 radio stations across the United States and was the third-largest radio station owner in the country...

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  • Atlantic Broadband
    Atlantic Broadband
    Atlantic Broadband is a privately held cable company with headquarters in Quincy, Massachusetts. The company has over 700 employees and 285,000 customers in four operating regions: Florida, Maryland/Delaware, South Carolina and Central Pennsylvania...

  • B&H Education
  • Charleston Newspapers
  • EduK (Instituto de Banca y Comercio
    Instituto de Banca y Comercio
    Instituto de Banca y Comercio is a technical institution located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. This institute offers a wide variety of career choices with the advantage of finishing studies in a short period Instituto de Banca y Comercio has a number of campuses and learning sites located through...

     & Florida Technical College
    Florida Technical College
    Florida Technical College is a private, for profit two-year college with campuses in Deland, Orlando, Kissimmee, and Lakeland, Florida. Its parent firm EduK is owned by the private equity firm Leeds Equity Partners...

    )
  • Grande Communications
    Grande Communications
    Grande Communications is a United States telecommunications firm, based in San Marcos, Texas, that uses a fiber optic network for broadband services. In 1999, the company was established when the largest single round of venture capital funding in Texas was raised, in turn starting the first-ever...

  • Kidz Bop
    Kidz Bop
    Kidz Bop is a brand of compilation albums featuring child session musicians performing contemporary music. The series was developed by Razor & Tie co-founders Cliff Chenfeld and Craig Balsam in 2001...

  • Monitronics
    Monitronics
    Monitronics International was founded in 1994 and is one of the three largest security alarm monitoring companies in the United States. Headquartered in Dallas, the company provides burglar and fire alarm monitored security system services approximately 800,000 residential and commercial customers...

  • Music Reports
    Music Reports
    Music Reports is an American company that serves organizations seeking expertise and solutions in music rights licensing, administration, and royalty accounting. It was founded in 1995.-History:...

  • Navtech
  • Nexstar Broadcasting Group
    Nexstar Broadcasting Group
    Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., is an entity of broadcast television stations headquartered in Irving, Texas. The company consists of 50 television stations across the U.S., ranging from market sizes 9 to 201 . 43 of the stations are broadcasting at full power, with the other 4 broadcasting at...

  • ProQuest
    ProQuest
    ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based electronic publisher and microfilm publisher.It provides archives of sources such as newspapers, periodicals, dissertations, and aggregated databases of many types. Its content is estimated at 125 billion digital pages...

  • RCN
    RCN Corporation
    RCN Corporation, founded in 1993 and based in Herndon, Virginia, is the first American facilities-based competitive provider of bundled telephone, cable television and high-speed internet service delivered over its own fiber-optic local network to consumers in the Boston, New York, Eastern...

  • Triple Point Technology
    Triple Point Technology
    Triple Point Technology is an American software company dealing in multi-market commodity and enterprise risk management.Founded in 1993, Triple Point is privately held and headquartered in Westport, Connecticut...


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