Frank Morse (California attorney)
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Frank P. Morse is a California businessman and attorney.
Biography[edit]
Morse graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California. In 1962, while an undergraduate at Stanford, Morse was one of the civil rights workers kidnapped in Mississippi while helping to register black voters during the Civil Rights Movement. Severely beaten in Mississippi,[1][2] he later returned to Stanford to resume and complete his undergraduate studies. Dave Barnum composed and wrote a song about the exploits of Morse in Italy, called the "Frank Morse Talkin' Blues", which won the 1964 Stanford University Spring Sing
He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Morse went on to teach at University of Southern California and at University of California, Irvine. He is married to Rio Morse and has three children.
Finance and acquisitions[edit]
In the early 1980s, Morse was President of Group Resources Management, a Southern California consulting business with emphasis on venture capital financing and acquisitions. He also maintained his private practice of law with emphasis on general corporate matters and complex litigation.
From 1996-2003, Morse was Chairman of the Board of BLI Holdings Corp., a company financed and partially owned by Bain Capital. The company was a contract manufacturer for Paul Mitchell Systems and Victoria's Secret and other cosmetic and hair care products in the United States. The company had factories in California and New Jersey totaling over 750,000 square feet (70,000 m2). The company had approximately 1,000 employees and gross revenues of over one hundred and thirty million dollars when it was sold for a significant profit in 2003.
Morse was Chairman of the Board of Cielo Unlimited, a California Holding Company. He is actively involved in seeking private investment opportunities, primarily in leveraged buyouts of existing companies.
H&G Capital Advisors[edit]
In 2007, Morse was named a Managing Director of H&G Capital Advisors. H&G Capital Advisors is part of Huntsman Gay Global Capital. With its principal offices located in Palo Alto, California, this new private equity fund was started by Jon M. Huntsman, the famed Utah industrialist and philanthropist, and Robert C. Gay, the long-time Managing Director of Bain Capital and former chief of staff of Howard Hughes. H&G focuses on middle market leveraged buyouts, growth capital investments, restructurings and strategic investment in mid-cap public companies. The Fund has in excess of $1 billion in limited partner commitments.
References[edit]
- ^ Bateman, Joe; Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn (2023-01-15). A Day I Ain't Never Seen Before: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi. University of Georgia Press. pp. 80–81. ISBN 978-0-8203-6302-8.
- ^ Soucek, Jonathan (2022). "Obedience to the Law is Not Liberty: The Poor People's Campaign and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Marks, Mississippi". Journal of Mississippi History. 84 (3): 3.
- Boyles, Denis, "Lawyers, Guns & Money," Vanity Fair, December, 1989
- Kolb, Larry J. OVERWORLD: The Life and Times of a Reluctant Spy. (Riverhead Books, New York, 2004).