{"id":4171,"date":"2006-03-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"thomas-lee-leaves-firm-he-started-to-run-new-ventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2006\/thomas-lee-leaves-firm-he-started-to-run-new-ventures.html","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Lee leaves firm he started, to run new ventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe &#8211; Billionaire Thomas Lee, who founded the Boston buyout firm Thomas H. Lee Partners LP 32 years ago, has stepped down to start another private-equity venture and expand his hedge fund.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8221;We&#8217;ve separated amicably, and I intend to reenter private equity, but my plans won&#8217;t be squared for a few months,&#8221; Lee said yesterday. New York-based Thomas H. Lee Capital LLC will pursue &#8221;the  full breadth of buyout opportunities,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>  Lee, 62, in December said he was negotiating his departure from the Boston-based firm he founded, where he remained chief executive after giving up day-to-day management oversight in 2003 to  Anthony DiNovi, 43, Scott Schoen, 47, and Scott Sperling, 48. The parting was &#8221;friendly,&#8221; Sperling said in an e-mailed message yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/globe\/articles\/2006\/03\/23\/thomas_lee_leaves_firm_he_started_to_run_new_ventures\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe &#8211; Billionaire Thomas Lee, who founded the Boston buyout firm Thomas H. Lee Partners LP 32 years ago, has stepped down to start another private-equity venture and expand his hedge fund. &#8221;We&#8217;ve separated amicably, and I intend to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}