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Tom Henderson
- Sam Simon's Birmingham-based private equity interests include growing numbers of funds and portfolio companies. The various legal entities operate under the brand of Simon Holdings Group, which was created in 1985 with the founding of Taylor-based Atlas Oil Co., which has grown into a $2 billion-a-year company. (See related story.) Simon Holdings operates as a family office for the Simon family and five other wealthy local families, who declined to be named. Those families can invest in LLCs of