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How This Small Private Equity Firm Earns 40% Returns Specializing In Obscure Corporate Carve-Outs
Andrew Nikou started OpenGate Capital with $30,000 of his own savings and now manages $1.5 billion. OPENGATE Andrew Nikou was a young associate in his 20s in 2002 working in the bullpen at Platinum Equity, the Los Angeles-based private equity firm that has …