Lone Star Funds
Lone Star Funds are closed-end, private-equity limited partnerships that include corporate and public pension funds, university endowments, foundations, bank holding companies, family trusts and insurance companies. Since 1995, the principals of Lone Star have organized private equity funds totaling more than $13.3 billion to invest globally in secured and corporate unsecured debt instruments, real estate related assets and select corporate opportunities.
Lone Star Funds made headlines in July 2008 after buying $30.6 billion gross notional amount of U.S. super senior ABS CDOs for $6.7 billion (22 cents on the dollars) from Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER), with Merrill financing 75% of the purchase price.
