Company History

Thomas Hicks, our founder, has been in the private equity business for 35 years. He was the founder of Hicks & Haas, one of the most successful private equity firms in the 1980’s, where he pioneered the “buy and build” strategy of investing. Mr. Hicks later founded Hicks, Muse, Tate, and Furst, where he raised more than $12 billion of private Tom Hicks - Founderequity across six funds and completed $50 billion of leveraged acquisitions.

Hicks Equity Partners was formed as the private equity arm for Hicks Holdings and is the controlling shareholder of Latrobe Specialty Steel Company, a specialty steel manufacturer. Its other corporate holdings include DirecPath, a company that provides bundled DIRECTV programming, broadband voice and data services, security and other locally based services to multiple dwelling units across the United States, Ocular LCD, Inc., a designer, manufacturer and marketer of high-performance liquid crystal displays, modules and systems, Berkshire Resources, LLC, a gas and oil exploration company, and Grupo Pilar, an animal and pet food company in Argentina.