Fortune Obtains Bain Documents ‘Supporting’ Romney

But do they really?
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Fortune’s Dan Primack has some new documents from Bain Capital that he says support Mitt Romney’s version of the events around his departure from Bain: Documents: Romney Didn’t Manage Bain Funds.

Fortune has obtained new evidence that supports Romney’s version of events.

Bain Capital began circulating offering documents for its seventh private equity fund in June 2000. Those documents include several pages specifying fund management. The section begins:

Set forth below is information regarding the background of the senior private equity investment professionals of Bain Capital. Also listed are certain investment professionals responsible for the day-to-day affairs of the Brookside and Sankaty funds, which are affiliated funds of Fund VII.

It then goes on to list 18 managers of the private equity fund. Mitt Romney is not among them. Same goes for an affiliated co-investment fund, whose private placement memorandum is dated September 2000.

Then there is Bain Capital Venture Fund — the firm’s first dedicated venture capital effort — whose private placement memorandum is dated January 2001. Romney also isn’t listed among its “key investment professionals,” or as part of its day-to-day operations or investment committee.

I’m not sure Primack’s documents are as convincing as he seems to think. A question that occurs to me immediately is whether Romney, as CEO and Managing Director of Bain Capital, was routinely listed in these kinds of investment documents — or whether it was just assumed he would be part of it, since he was, after all, the CEO.

If Fortune (who apparently has a Bain source leaking documents to them) can produce similar documents prior to 2000 that include Mitt Romney as an “investment professional,” that would support Romney’s claims since it would show a clear point of departure after which he was no longer active in the company. But if Romney’s name didn’t usually appear in these documents, this is meaningless.

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