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Nautic Partners Raises $4.5 billion for Its Eleventh Fund, Nautic Partners XI

Providence, RI

Nautic Partners, LLC (“Nautic”), a leading middle-market private equity firm that pursues a thematic and proactive investment strategy within the Healthcare, Industrials, and Services sectors, today announced it has successfully completed the final closing of Nautic Partners XI (“Fund XI”). Fund XI was oversubscribed at its hard cap of $4.5 billion of limited partner commitments, surpassing its target of $3.75 billion. Fund XI is Nautic’s largest fund to date, receiving strong support from both long-standing and notable new institutional investors across North, Central and South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

“We are humbled by and incredibly grateful to all of our limited partners for their support of Nautic,” said Scott Hilinski, Managing Director at Nautic. “We believe our success and growth is due to our ability to consistently execute our investment strategy while maintaining our culture. This is made possible by our team and our executive network, but also by our relationships with our limited partners, who have made important contributions to our success throughout the years.”

“The substantial demand that Nautic received for Fund XI in this highly competitive fundraising market really speaks to the caliber of their team and to their differentiated investment strategy,” said Alex Russ, Senior Managing Director at Evercore. “We are delighted to have partnered with Nautic on their successful fundraise and congratulate the entire Nautic team on reaching this important milestone in the Firm’s history.”

Nautic will continue to be led by 12 Managing Directors with more than 170 years of combined private equity investment experience at the Firm. The limited partners of Fund XI include a globally diverse base of leading institutions, including public and private pension plans, insurers, health systems, fund of funds, family offices, financial institutions, endowments and foundations. Nautic closed its previous fund, Nautic Partners X, in 2021 with $3.0 billion of committed limited partner capital.

Evercore Private Funds Group acted as Nautic’s exclusive global placement agent, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as fund counsel.

About Nautic

Nautic Partners is a Providence, Rhode Island-based middle-market private equity firm that focuses our expertise and market knowledge on sub-verticals within three sectors: Healthcare, Industrials and Services. Nautic has completed over 155 platform transactions throughout our 38-year history. In pursuing our thematic and proactive investment strategy, we seek to partner with executives and management teams in an effort to accelerate the growth trajectory of our portfolio companies via acquisitions, targeted operating initiatives, and increased management team depth. For more information, please visit www.nautic.com.

This press release is not an offer or solicitation of an offer, or an invitation or inducement, to invest in any Nautic fund. No person may invest in any Nautic fund except in accordance with and subject to the terms of the applicable fund documentation and applicable law.

Certain statements about Nautic made by portfolio company executives herein are intended to illustrate Nautic’s business relationship with such persons, including with respect to Nautic’s facilities as a business partner, rather than Nautic’s capabilities or expertise with respect to investment advisory services. Portfolio company executives were not compensated in connection with their participation, although they generally receive compensation and investment opportunities in connection with their portfolio company roles, and in certain cases are also owners of portfolio company securities and/or investors in Nautic-sponsored vehicles. Such compensation and investments subject participants to potential conflicts of interest in making the statements herein.