List of private equity firms

The following are several lists of notable private equity firms based on criteria laid out in each list.

Largest private equity firms

The following is a ranking of the largest private equity firms published in 2011. The ranking was compiled by Private Equity International, which reveals that the world's 50 largest private equity direct investment programs have raised in excess of US$325 billion since 2006. A previous ranking had been published in 2007.

The list includes very few venture capital firms, which tend to be smaller than their leveraged buyout counterparts; for a list of those see List of venture capital firms.

Rank Name of the firm Headquarters Capital Raised as of Apr 2011 (billions of USD) 1 TPG Capital Fort Worth $ 50.55 2 Goldman Sachs Capital Partners New York $ 47.22 3 The Carlyle Group Washington DC $ 40.54 4 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts New York $ 40.21 5 The Blackstone Group New York $ 36.42 6 Apollo Management New York $ 33.81 7 Bain Capital Boston $ 29.4 8 CVC Capital Partners London $ 25.07 9 First Reserve Corporation Greenwich, CT $ 19.06 10 Hellman & Friedman San Francisco $ 17.20 11 Apax Partners London $ 16.64 12 General Atlantic Greenwich, CT $ 15.10 13 Warburg Pincus New York $ 15.00 14 Cerberus Capital Management New York $ 14.90 15 Advent International Boston $ 14.52 16 Permira London $ 13.67 17 Oaktree Capital Management Los Angeles $ 13.05 18 Terra Firma Capital Partners London $ 12.25 19 Providence Equity Partners Providence, RI $ 12.10 20 Clayton, Dubilier & Rice New York $ 11.40 21 Charterhouse Capital Partners London $ 11.27 22 Teachers' Private Capital Toronto $ 10.76 23 Madison Dearborn Partners Chicago $ 10.60 24 TA Associates Boston $ 10.55 25 Silver Lake Partners Menlo Park, CA $ 10.50 26 Lone Star Funds Dallas $ 10.41 27 Thomas H. Lee Partners Boston $ 10.10 28 Cinven London $ 15.07 29 Riverstone Holdings New York $ 9.67 30 J.C. Flowers & Co. New York $ 9.30 31 AXA Private Equity Paris $ 9.03 32 AlpInvest Partners Amsterdam $ 8.87 33 3i Group London $ 8.73 34 Nordic Capital Stockholm $ 8.73 35 Fortress Investment Group New York $ 8.68 36 EnCap Investments Houston, TX $ 8.47 37 Onex Toronto $ 8.34 38 Lindsay Goldberg New York $ 7.87 39 Citi Capital Advisors New York $ 7.80 40 Ares Management Los Angeles $ 7.79 41 Summit Partners Boston, MA $ 7.75 42 Bridgepoint Capital London $ 7.72 43 Marfin Athens $ 7.31 44 EQT Partners Stockholm $ 7.20 45 NGP Energy Capital Management Dallas $ 7.11 46 Energy Capital Partners Short Hills, NJ $ 6.59 47 Stone Point Capital Greenwich, CT $ 6.40 48 Abraaj Capital Dubai $ 6.20 49 Golden Gate Capital San Francisco $ 6.11 50 GTCR Golder Rauner Chicago $ 6.00

List of investment banking private equity groups

The following is a list of notable private equity firms and merchant banking and other private equity groups that currently reside within investment banking firms or have previously completed a spinout from an investment banking firm:

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Parent bank	Private equity firm	Location	Year founded	Year independent
ABN AMRO	AAC Capital Partners	Amsterdam	-	2008
Barclays Capital	Barclays Private Equity	London	1982	-
Barclays Corporate	Barclays Ventures	London	1997	-
Barings Bank	Baring Vostok Capital Partners Baring Private Equity Asia	Moscow, Russia Hong Kong	1994 1997	2004 2004
Bear Stearns ^	Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Irving Place Capital (fka BSMB)	New York New York	1965 1997	1976 2008
BNP Paribas	PAI Partners	Paris	1993	1998
BT Alex. Brown ^	ABS Capital	Baltimore	1990	1995
Charterhouse Bank ^	Charterhouse Capital Partners Charterhouse Group	London New York	1982 1973	2001 1989
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 New York New York	1968 1981 1979 1995	2006 1993 1979 1995
Continental Illinois ^	Willis Stein & Partners CIVC Partners	Chicago Chicago	1983 1983	1995 1994
Credit Suisse / Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette	DLJ Merchant Banking Asset Management Finance (AMF) Avista Capital Partners Diamond Castle Holdings Castle Harlan	New York New York New York New York	1985 1985 1985 1987	na 2005 2004 1987
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	New York	1986	na
Hambros Bank ^	Duke Street Capital	London	1988	1998
Hamershlag Sulzberger Borg	Hamershlag Borg Capital Partners	New York	1965	na
JPMorgan Chase	CCMP Capital (fka JPMorgan Partners) One Equity Partners	New York Chicago	1984 2001	2006 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
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
UBS	UBS Capital Affinity Equity Partners Capvis Lightyear Capital	London Hong Kong Zurich New York	- 1995 1990 2000	na 2002 2003 2002
Wachovia	Wachovia Capital Partners	Charlotte	1988	na
William Blair & Company	William Blair Capital Partners	Chicago	1982	2004

^ Defunct banking institution

Notable private equity firms

The following is a list of notable private equity firms:

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ABRY Partners
ABS Capital Partners
AEA Investors
AXA Private Equity
Abraaj Capital
Advent International
Affinity Equity Partners
Allied Capital
AlpInvest Partners
Altor Equity Partners
American Capital Strategies
American Industrial Partners
American Securities Capital Partners
Angelo, Gordon & Co.
Apax Partners
Apollo Management
Aquiline Holdings LLC
Arcapita
Ares Management
Arlington Capital Partners
Aton Capital Partners
Audax Group
Avenue Capital Group
Avista Capital Partners
BC Partners
BIP Investment Partners
Babcock & Brown
Bain Capital
Barclays Private Equity
Barclays Ventures
Berkshire Partners
Bertram Capital
BFC Financial Corporation
Blackstone Group
Blum Capital
Brentwood Associates
Bridgepoint Capital
Brockway Moran & Partners
Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co.
Brynwood Partners
Brysam Global Partners
Butler Capital Partners
CapitalSpring LLC
CCMP Capital
CI Capital Partners
CIVC Partners
CVC Capital Partners
Campeau Corporation
Candover Investments
Capvis
Carera Capital
Carlyle Group
Castle Harlan
Catterton Partners
Centerbridge Partners
Cerberus Capital Management
Charlesbank Capital Partners
Charterhouse Capital Partners
Charterhouse Group
Chicago Growth Partners
ChrysCapital
Cinven
Clarity Partners
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
Close Brothers Group
Code Hennessy & Simmons
Coller Capital
Colony Capital
Court Square Capital Partners
Crestview Partners
Crossroads Group
Cypress Group (winding down after 2 dismal first funds and was led by former Lehman PE investors
DLJ Merchant Banking Partners
Defoe Fournier & Cie.
Diamond Castle Holdings
Digital Sky Technologies
Dellacorte Group, The
Doughty Hanson & Co
Dubai International Capital
Duke Street Capital
EQT Partners
Electra Private Equity
Elevation Partners
Emerging Capital Partners
EMI Equity
Eurazeo
Evercore Partners
Fenway Partners
Ferd
First Reserve Corporation
Flexpoint Ford
Forstmann Little & Company
Fortress Investment Group
Fox Paine & Company
Freeman Spogli & Co.
Fremont Group
Friedman Fleischer & Lowe
Frontenac Company
Gavea Investments
GI Partners
GIMV
GTCR
General Atlantic
Golden Gate Capital Partners
Goldman Sachs Capital Partners
Gores Group
Graphite Capital
HBG Holdings
H&Q Asia Pacific
H.I.G. Capital
HM Capital Partners
Hamershlag Borg Capital Partners
Harbert Management Corporation
HarbourVest Partners
Harvest Partners
Heartland Industrial Partners
Hellman & Friedman
Highland Capital Management
Huntsman Gay Global Capital
IK Investment Partners
InterMedia Partners
Intermediate Capital Group
Investcorp
Irving Place Capital (Previously known as Bear Stearns Merchant Banking
J.H. Whitney & Company
J.W. Childs Associates
JC Flowers
JLL Partners
JMI Equity
Jordan Company
Kelso & Company
Kennet Partners
Khosla Ventures
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Kohlberg & Company
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
KRG Capital
LGT Capital Partners
LRG Capital Funds
Lake Capital
Landmark Partners
Lazard Private Equity
Lee Equity Partners
Leeds Equity Partners
Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking
Leonard Green & Partners
Leopard Capital LP
Lexington Partners
Lightyear Capital
Lincolnshire Management
Lindsay Goldberg Bessemer
Lion Capital LLP
Littlejohn & Co.
Lone Star Funds
Lux Capital
Madison Dearborn Partners
Mancuso and Company (DBA as The Dellacorte Group)
Marlin Equity Partners
MatlinPatterson Global Advisors
MBK Partners
MCM Capital Partners
MC Venture Partners
Mekong Capital
Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity
Metalmark Capital
Mid Europa Partners
MidOcean Partners
Mingly Corporation
Motilal Oswal Private Equity
Morgenthaler
MTN Capital (Fundless Sponsor)
Newbridge Capital
Nordic Capital
Oak Hill Capital Partners
Oaktree Capital Management
Olympus Partners
One Equity Partners
Onex Corporation
One Rock Capital (new firm founded by two former Ripplewood partners)
PAI Partners
Pacific Equity Partners
Paine & Partners
Pantheon Ventures
Partners Group
Patriot Capital
Permira
Phoenix Equity Partners
Platina Partners
Platinum Equity
PNC Equity Partners (Now DBA as Incline Equity Management
Primus Capital
Prospect Partners
Providence Equity Partners
Quadrangle Group
Redpoint Ventures
Rhône Group
Riordan, Lewis & Haden
Ripplewood Holdings (Winding Down
Riverside Company
Riverstone Holdings
Roark Capital Group
Rockbridge Growth Equity LLC
SVG Capital
Seaport Capital
Silver Lake Partners
Silverfleet Capital Partners
Siris Capital
Snow Phipps (founded by Ian Snow, son of John Snow and also a former Ripplewood protege.)
Spectrum Equity
Sterling Private Equity
Stephen Norris Capital Partners
Summit Partners
Sun Capital Partners
TA Associates
TCW/Crescent Mezzanine
TPG Capital
TSG Consumer Partners
Tavistock Group
Terra Firma Capital Partners
Thayer Hidden Creek
Thoma Cressey Bravo
Thomas H. Lee Partners
Tinicum
Trilantic Capital Partner
Trivest
Vermilion Partners Ltd
Veronis Suhler Stevenson
Vestar Capital Partners
Votorantim Novos Negócios
Wachovia Capital Partners
Warburg Pincus
Welkin Group
Wellspring Capital Management
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
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Weston Presidio
The Wicks Group of Companies
Willis Stein & Partners
Wind Point Partners
Yucaipa Cos.
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See also

• Private equity
• Private equity firm
• Private equity fund
• History of private equity and venture capital

Related lists

• Private equity firm articles (Wikipedia category)
• Venture capital firm articles (Wikipedia category)
• Private equity fund of funds
• List of venture capital firms

Other lists

• List of investment banks
• List of investment management firms
• List of boutique investment banks
• List of financial institutions that invest in infrastructure

References

• Top 50 PE funds from Private equity international
• TheCityUK - Private Equity