List of private equity firms

Below is a list of notable private equity firms.

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.^[1] In the 2023 ranking, Blackstone Inc. regained top spot back from KKR.^[2]

2023 PEI 300 rank	Firm	Headquarters	Five-year fundraising total ($m)
1	Blackstone Inc.	New York City	125,612
2	KKR	New York City	103,713
3	EQT Partners	Stockholm	101,660
4	Thoma Bravo	Chicago	74,093
5	The Carlyle Group	Washington D.C.	69,681
6	TPG Inc.	Fort Worth, Texas	54,965
7	Advent International	Boston	52,939
8	Hg	London	51,046
9	General Atlantic	New York City	48,696
10	Warburg Pincus	New York City	48,534
11	Silver Lake	Menlo Park, California	48,280
12	Goldman Sachs Capital Partners	New York City	45,358
13	Bain Capital	Boston	44,347
14	Clearlake Capital	Santa Monica, California	43,697
15	CVC Capital Partners	Luxembourg France	41,750
16	Vista Equity Partners	Austin, Texas	41,500
17	Clayton, Dubilier & Rice	New York City	41,082
18	Hellman & Friedman	San Francisco	40,925
19	Insight Partners	New York City	40,166
20	Leonard Green & Partners	Los Angeles	39,645

List of investment banking private equity groups

Parent bank	Private equity firm	Location	Year founded	Year independent
ABN AMRO	AAC Capital Partners	Amsterdam	-	2008
AXA	Ardian	Paris	1996	2013
Barclays Capital	Equistone Partners Europe	London	1979	2011^[3]
Barings Bank ^	Baring Vostok Capital Partners Baring Private Equity Asia	Moscow Hong Kong	1994 1997	2004 2000
Bear Stearns ^	Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Irving Place Capital (fka BSMB)	New York New York	1965 1997	1976 2008
BNP Paribas	PAI Partners BNP Paribas Développement	Paris Paris	1993 2016	1998 -
BT Alex. Brown ^	ABS Capital	Baltimore	1990	1995
CIBC World Markets	Trimaran Capital Partners	New York	1995	2001
Citigroup	Court Square Capital Partners CVC Capital Partners Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co.	New York Luxembourg France New York New York	1968 1981 1979 1995	2006 1993 1979 1995
Crédit Agricole / LCL	Omnes Capital	Paris	1999	2011
Credit Suisse / Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette ^	DLJ Merchant Banking Avista Capital Partners Diamond Castle Holdings Castle Harlan CIP Capital	New York New York New York New York New York	1985 1985 1985 1987 2010	na 2005 2004 1987 2010
Continental Illinois ^	Willis Stein & Partners CIVC Partners	Chicago Chicago	1983 1983	1995 1994
Deutsche Bank	MidOcean Partners	New York	2003	2003
First Chicago Bank ^	Madison Dearborn Partners GTCR	Chicago Chicago	1992 1980	1992 1980
Goldman Sachs	Goldman Sachs Capital Partners Goldman Sachs Principal Investments Area	New York	1986	na
JPMorgan Chase & Co.	CCMP Capital (fka JPMorgan Partners) HPS Investment Partners One Equity Partners	New York New York Chicago	1984 2007 2001	2006 2016 na
Lazard	Lazard Alternative Investments	New York	-	-
Lehman Brothers ^	Blackstone Group The Cypress Group Trilantic Capital Partners	New York New York New York	1985 1994 1986	1985 1994 2009
Lloyds Banking Group	Lloyds Development Capital	London	1981	na
Macquarie Group	Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets	Sydney	1994	na
Merrill Lynch	Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity	New York	1996	na
Morgan Stanley	Metalmark Capital Morgan Stanley Capital Partners	New York New York	1985	2004
National Westminster Bank	Bridgepoint Capital	London	1984	2000
Nomura Group	Terra Firma Capital Partners	London	1994	2002
Rothschild & Co	Five Arrows Principal Investments^[4] Five Arrows Capital Partners^[5]	Paris New York	2010^[6] 2018^[7]	- -
Société Générale	Société Générale Capital Partenaires	Paris	1973	-
UBS	UBS Capital Affinity Equity Partners Capvis Lightyear Capital	London Hong Kong Zurich New York	- 1995 1990 2000	na 2002 2003 2002
Wells Fargo	Pamlico Capital	Charlotte	1988	2010
William Blair & Company	William Blair Capital Partners	Chicago	1982	2004

^ Defunct banking institution

Notable private equity firms

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Asia

EMEA

References

^ "PEI 300 | The Largest Private Equity Firms in the World". Private Equity International. 2023-06-01. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
^ Farman, Madeleine (2023-06-01). "Blackstone once again crowned largest private equity fundraiser in PEI 300". Private Equity International. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
^ Barclays to Sell Private-Equity Unit Equistone to Management - Bloomberg
^ "Corporate Private Equity - Merchant Banking - Rothschild & Co". www.rothschildandco.com. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
^ "Corporate Private Equity – Merchant Banking – Rothschild & Co". www.rothschildandco.com. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
^ "Rothschild plans to diversify from its core". Financial Times. 2010-11-28. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
^ https://www.rothschildandco.com/siteassets/publications/rothschild_and_co/2019/full_year_results/d1122fd986aa4bba984041e9ba2074d41.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

Largest private equity investment firms

Methodology: AUM over US$70 billion

Private equity
Private equity firms
Venture capital firms
Portfolio companies

Private equity and venture capital

Investment types

History

Terms and
concepts

Buyout	Financial sponsor Management buyout Divisional buyout Buy–sell agreement Leveraged recapitalization Dividend recapitalization
Venture	Angel investor Business incubator Post-money valuation Pre-money valuation SAFE Seed money Startup company Venture capital financing Venture debt Venture round
Structure	Private equity firms and funds Limited partnership Limited liability company Carried interest Management fee Pledge fund Publicly traded private equity Business Development Company Venture capital trust Private investment in public equity (PIPE) SPAC