Anhanguera Edu

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Anhanguera Educacional Participações S.A. (the “Company” or “AESA”) is Brazil’s leading private, for-profit professional education company. The Company delivers education services through its: i) campus network (Anhanguera Educacional); ii) vocational training centers (Microlins); and iii) distance learning platform (Anhanguera/LFG). Management’s growth strategy focuses on growing its on-campus students, distance learning, and vocational training units. The Company is planning to raise over US$44 million (approximately R$100 million) to fund its growth over 2010. Founded in the early 1990’s from a single college, the Company today is the largest post-secondary education institution in Brazil, with an estimated enrollment of 141,000 students in 2008 distributed across 52 campuses and 774 distance-learning centers. With an additional 500,000 students/year in vocational training programs, AESA has educated over 700,000 young working adults in Brazil in 2008, more than any other education institution in the Americas.This is a repeat investment which was supervised in 2006.