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Nine West Holdings
Sycamore acquired Jones Group (parent of Nine West, Anne Klein) in 2014 for $2.2B. Immediately stripped valuable brands while leaving $1.6B debt on Nine West. Company sued Sycamore for fraudulent asset transfer.
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Reviewed operating findings or a classified operating outcome are available.
Record updated Sept. 4, 2026
Current ownership
Current owner not established
This record does not identify a current owner. That absence is a gap in the record, not a conclusion about ownership.
1 ownership record has an unresolved current/former status.
Ownership and transaction history
Chronology from recorded ownership periods, transactions and reviewed outcome events. Event order does not imply causation.
April 1, 2018
Operations ceased
Operating outcome
July 1, 2018
Revival or successor activity recorded
Operating outcome
Date not recorded
What happened under and after ownership
Operating outcome
Ceased operations, then returned
Nine West Holdings closed all its own US and Canadian retail stores in April 2018 after filing Chapter 11.
Authentic Brands Group bought the Nine West and Bandolino brands for $340 million in mid-2018 and continues licensing them to other retailers.
As of the 2018 sale, Nine West and Bandolino were owned by Authentic Brands Group and licensed to other retailers; no standalone Nine West store has operated since.
- Founded
- 1977
- Peak headcount
- 15,600
- Sponsor at closure
- Sycamore Partners
- Cause
- Debt left at exit · with asset liquidation
- PR Newswire · sale to Authentic Brands Group, deal value
- FundingUniverse · Nine West traces to Fisher Camuto Corporation, founded 1977 by Jerome Fisher and Vincent Camuto; 15,600 employees reported in company history
- Business Law Today (American Bar Association) · Sycamore Partners' 2014 buyout of Jones Group left the surviving Nine West Holdings entity with debt-to-EBITDA of 7.8x, well above the 5.1x lenders considered s
What we do not know
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- No current public ownership assessment has been published.
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