Below is a list of notable
private equity firm
A private equity firm or private equity company (often described as a financial sponsor) is an investment management company that provides financial backing and makes investments in the private equity of a Startup company, startup or of an existin ...
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Largest private equity firms by PE capital raised
Each year
Private Equity International publishes the PEI 300, a ranking of the largest private-equity firms by how much capital they have raised for private-equity investment in the last five years.
In the 2025 ranking,
KKR regained the top spot from
Blackstone Inc. who fell to third, behind
EQT AB.
List of investment banking private equity groups
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Notable private equity firms
Americas
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3G Capital
3G Capital is a private equity investment firm. Founded in 2004, 3G Capital evolved from the Brazilian investment office of Jorge Paulo Lemann, Carlos Alberto Sicupira, and Marcel Herrmann Telles. 3G Capital is led by Alex Behring, Co-Founder ...
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ABS Capital
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Adams Street Partners
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Advent International
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AEA Investors
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American Securities
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Angelo, Gordon & Co.
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Apollo Global Management
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Ares Management
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Arlington Capital Partners
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Auldbrass Partners
Auldbrass Partners is a private equity secondaries firm, founded by Howard Sanders, which spun-out from Citigroup in 2011. Auldbrass Partners has advised/managed over $1.2 billion of global investments in growth buyout, growth equity, mezzanine ...
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Avenue Capital Group
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Avista Capital Partners
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Bain Capital
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BDT & MSD Partners
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Berkshire Partners
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Blackstone Group
Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City. It was founded in 1985 as a mergers and acquisitions firm by Peter Peterson and Stephen Schwarzman, who had previously worked together at Lehman ...
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Blue Owl Capital
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Blum Capital
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Brentwood Associates
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Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co.
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Brynwood Partners
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CapitalG
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Carlyle Group
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Castle Harlan
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CCMP Capital
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Centerbridge Partners
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Cerberus Capital Management
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Charlesbank Capital Partners
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Chicago Growth Partners
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CI Capital Partners
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CIVC Partners
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Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
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Clearlake Capital
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Colony Capital
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Court Square Capital Partners
Court Square Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout transactions. Court Square was originally a captive private equity firm within Citigroup known as Citigroup Venture Capital Equity Partners. Court Square's in ...
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Crescent Capital Group
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CrossHarbor Capital Partners
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Crossroads Group
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Cypress Group
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Defoe Fournier & Cie.
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Diamond Castle Holdings
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DLJ Merchant Banking Partners
aPriori Capital Partners is a private equity investment firm focused on leveraged buyout transactions. The firm was founded as an affiliate of Credit Suisse and traces its roots to Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, the investment bank acquired by Cr ...
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EIG Global Energy Partners
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Elevation Partners
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EnCap Investments
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Energy Capital Partners
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Fenway Partners
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First Reserve Corporation
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Forstmann Little & Company
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Fortress Investment Group
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Fox Paine & Company
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Francisco Partners
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Freeman Spogli & Co.
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Fremont Group
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Friedman Fleischer & Lowe
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Frontenac Company
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General Atlantic
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Genstar Capital
Genstar Capital is a private equity firm that executes leveraged buyout transactions in middle-market companies based in North America. Founded in 1988, Genstar currently has approximately $33 billion in assets under management.
Based in San ...
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GI Partners
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Golden Gate Capital Partners
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Goldman Sachs Capital Partners
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Gores Group
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GP Investimentos
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GTCR
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H.I.G. Capital
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Hamilton Lane
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Harbert Management Corporation
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HarbourVest Partners
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Harvest Partners
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Heartland Industrial Partners
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Hellman & Friedman
Hellman & Friedman LLC (H&F) is an American private equity firm, founded in 1984 by Warren Hellman and Tully Friedman, that makes investments primarily through leveraged buyouts as well as growth capital investments. H&F has focused its efforts ...
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Highbridge Capital Management
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Highland Capital Management
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HM Capital Partners
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HPS Investment Partners
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InterMedia Partners
InterMedia Advisors, LLC (a..k.a. InterMedia Partners), is a private equity investment firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in the mass media, media sector.
The firm, which was founded in 1992 by notable private equity ...
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Irving Place Capital
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J.H. Whitney & Company
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J.W. Childs Associates
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JC Flowers
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JLL Partners
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Jordan Company
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Kelso & Company
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Khosla Ventures
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Kinderhook Industries
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Kleiner Perkins
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Kohlberg & Company
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KPS Capital Partners
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L Catterton
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Landmark Partners
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Lee Equity Partners
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Leeds Equity Partners
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Leonard Green & Partners
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Lexington Partners
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Lightyear Capital
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Lincolnshire Management
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Lindsay Goldberg Bessemer
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Littlejohn & Co.
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Lone Star Funds
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Lovell Minnick Partners
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LRG Capital Funds
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Lux Capital
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Madison Dearborn Partners
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MatlinPatterson Global Advisors
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Metalmark Capital
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MidOcean Partners
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Morgan Stanley Private Equity
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New Mountain Capital
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NRDC Equity Partners
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Oak Hill Capital Partners
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Oak Investment Partners
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Olympus Partners
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One Equity Partners
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Onex Corporation
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Pamlico Capital
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Pathway Capital Management
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Platinum Equity
Platinum Equity, LLC is an American private equity investment firm founded by Tom Gores in 1995, headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. The firm focuses on leveraged buyout investments of established companies in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
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Providence Equity Partners
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Quadrangle Group
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Redpoint Ventures
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Rhône Group
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Ripplewood Holdings
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Riverside Partners
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Riverstone Holdings
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Roark Capital Group
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RPX Corporation
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Sentinel Capital Partners
Sentinel Capital Partners, L.L.C. is an American Private equity firm, private-equity firm focusing on mid-market companies. The company is headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1994 by David Lobel and John McCormack after working toge ...
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Silver Lake Partners
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Stonepeak
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Summit Partners
Summit Partners is an American investment firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm focuses on investing in technology, healthcare, life sciences and other growth industries.
Background
Summit Partners was founded in 1984 by E. Roe Stamps ...
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Sun Capital Partners
Sun Capital Partners, Inc., is an American private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts. Sun Capital was founded in 1995 by Marc J. Leder and Rodger Krouse, former classmates at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and ...
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Sycamore Partners
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Symphony Technology Group
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TA Associates
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Tavistock Group
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TCV
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Thayer Hidden Creek
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Thoma Bravo
Thoma Bravo, LP is an American private equity and growth capital firm based in Chicago, Illinois. It is known for being particularly active in acquiring enterprise software companies and has over $130billion in assets under management .
It ...
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Thoma Cressey Bravo
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Thomas H. Lee Partners
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Tiger Global Management
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TowerBrook Capital Partners
TowerBrook Capital Partners, L.P. is an investment management firm headquartered in London and New York City. TowerBrook spun out of Soros Fund Management in 2005 and became known for acquiring majority stakes in companies such as Jimmy Choo. Man ...
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TPG Capital
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Trilantic Capital Partners
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Trivest
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TSG Consumer Partners
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Värde Partners
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Veritas Capital
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Veronis Suhler Stevenson
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Vestar Capital Partners
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Vista Equity Partners
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Vivo Capital
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Vulcan Capital Management
Vulcan Capital Management, Inc was founded in May 1997 by Ford Graham and Kevin Davis (and is a different and unrelated entity to Vulcan Capital or Vulcan Inc., two companies founded by Paul Allen.). It is a private equity firm focusing on invest ...
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Warburg Pincus
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Warwick Energy Group
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Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS), also referred to as Welsh Carson, is a private equity firm. WCAS was formed in 1979 and focuses on investing the industries of technology and healthcare, primarily in the United States. WCAS has a current ...
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Wesray Capital Corporation
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Weston Presidio
Weston Presidio is an American private equity firm focused on growth capital investments in late-stage companies across a range of industries with a specific focus on the consumer products, business services, industrial, media, publishing, health ...
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Willis Stein & Partners
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Wind Point Partners
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WL Ross & Co.
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Yucaipa Cos.
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Zelnick Media Capital
Asia
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Addor Capital
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Affinity Equity Partners
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Archer Capital
Archer Capital is an Australian private equity investment firm based in Sydney. It was founded as GS Private Equity in 1996. Archer Capital hosts multiple investment funds which invest in businesses across a wide array of industries and sectors ...
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Axiom Asia
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BGH Capital
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Boyu Capital
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CBC Group
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Centurium Capital
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China Chengtong Holdings Group
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China Media Capital
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China Merchants Capital
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China Reform Fund Management
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CITIC Capital
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CoStone Capital
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Cowin Capital
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CPE
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DCP Capital
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Dymon Asia Private Equity
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Ekuinas
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FountainVest Partners
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Hillhouse Capital Group
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Hony Capital
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Hopu Investment Management
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JAFCO
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JIC Capital
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Leopard Capital LP
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Mekong Capital
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MBK Partners
MBK Partners (MBKP) is a private equity firm focused on North Asia. According to Forbes, MBK Partners is one of the largest private equity firms in Asia.
In 2023, ''Private Equity International'', ranked MBK Partners as the eighth largest privat ...
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Northstar Group
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Oriza Holdings
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Pacific Equity Partners
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PAG
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Primavera Capital Group
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Quadria Capital
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Quadrant Private Equity
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RRJ Capital
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Seavi Advent
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Tiantu Capital
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Tybourne Capital Management
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Yunfeng Capital
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Zhongzhi Capital
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ZWC Partners
EMEA
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3i
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Actis
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AlpInvest Partners
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Altor Equity Partners
Altor Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and the DACH region.
History
The firm, which is based in Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm (; ) is th ...
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Apax Partners
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Arcapita
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Ardian
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Argentum Fondsinvesteringer
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Axcel
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Aurelius Group
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Baring Vostok Capital Partners
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BC Partners
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BIP Investment Partners
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Bridgepoint Capital
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Butler Capital Partners
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CapMan
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Capital Dynamics
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Capvis
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Charterhouse Capital Partners
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Cinven
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Close Brothers Group
Close Brothers Group plc is a UK merchant banking group which provides lending, takes deposits, manages wealth and trades in securities. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
History
Close Brothe ...
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Coller Capital
Coller Capital is one of the largest global investors in the private equity secondary market ("secondaries"). It was founded in 1990 by the UK-based investor and philanthropist Jeremy Coller.
History
Coller Capital completed its first notabl ...
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Conquest Asset Management
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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners
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C.W. Obel
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CVC Capital Partners
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Doughty Hanson & Co
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DST Global
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Dubai International Capital
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Duke Street Capital
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EMVest Asset Management
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EQT AB
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Eurazeo
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Ferd
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Fondinvest Capital
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GFH Capital
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GIMV
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Graphite Capital
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GK Investment
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HgCapital
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ICT Group
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Idinvest Partners
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IFD Kapital Group
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IK Investment Partners
IK Partners (“IK”) is a European private equity firm focused on small and mid cap investments in the Benelux, DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), France, the Nordic countries, Nordics countries and United Kingdom. The firm is led by Christ ...
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Infinity Group
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Intermediate Capital Group
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Investcorp
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Jadwa Investment
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Kennet Partners
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Kistefos
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LGT Capital Partners
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Livingbridge
Livingbridge is a mid-market private equity firm launched in 1995. Headquartered in London, the firm also has offices in, Melbourne, Australia and Boston, US.
Livingbridge was known until November 2014 as Isis Equity Partners, but rebranded a ...
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M. Goldschmidt Holding
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Marfin Investment Group
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MerchantBridge
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Meyer Bergman
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Mid Europa Partners
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Mubadala Investment Company
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Mutares
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Nordic Capital
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Norfund
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OpCapita
OpCapita is a British private equity firm specialising in the retail, consumer and leisure industries. The firm invests in underperforming businesses that require operational support to improve profitability and create long-term, sustainable value ...
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PAI Partners
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Pantheon Ventures
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Partners Group
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Permira
Permira Holdings Limited is a British global investment firm specialised in buyouts, growth funds, equity funds, and credit funds. Founded in 1985 as part of Schroders, it became independent in 1996. Operating as Permira since 2001, the company ...
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Phoenix Equity Partners
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Ratos
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Silverfleet Capital Partners
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SL Capital Partners
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Sofina
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SVG Capital
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Terra Firma Capital Partners
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Unbound Group
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Vitruvian Partners
See also
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Private equity
Private equity (PE) is stock in a private company that does not offer stock to the general public; instead it is offered to specialized investment funds and limited partnerships that take an active role in the management and structuring of the co ...
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Private-equity firm
A private equity firm or private equity company (often described as a financial sponsor) is an investment management company that provides financial backing and makes investments in the private equity of a Startup company, startup or of an existin ...
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Private-equity fund
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History of private equity and venture capital
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Sovereign wealth fund
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List of exchange-traded funds
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