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Dearborn Partners LLC
Dearborn Partners LLC invests its own or fund capital, without a clearly stated strategy, from Chicago, IL. It states a focus on financial services.
Stated investment criteria
What Dearborn Partners LLC says it buys
Read from Dearborn Partners LLC’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.
| People listed on its team page | 81 |
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Regulatory record
How Dearborn Partners LLC is registered
From this firm's Form ADV, the annual filing every registered and exempt investment adviser makes to the SEC.
| Adviser status | SEC registered |
| Regulatory assets under management | $2.7bn |
| Employees | 24 |
| SEC adviser number | CRD 108147 |
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