List of private equity firms

List of investment banking private equity groups

Parent bank	Private equity firm	Location	Year founded	Year independent
ABN AMRO	AAC Capital Partners	Amsterdam	-	2008
Barclays Capital	Equistone Partners Europe	London	1982	2011^[1]
Barings Bank	Baring Vostok Capital Partners Baring Private Equity Asia	Moscow 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 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
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
JPMorgan Chase & Co.	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
Wells Fargo	Pamlico Capital	Charlotte	1988	2010
William Blair & Company	William Blair Capital Partners	Chicago	1982	2004

^ Defunct banking institution

Largest private equity firms by PE capital raised

Private Equity International ranked the largest private equity firms by PE capital raised between 2008 and 2013:^[2]

Rank	Firm	Headquarters	Capital raised ($mm)
1	The Carlyle Group	Washington D.C.	$30,650.33
2	Kohlberg Kravis Roberts	New York City	$27,182.33
3	The Blackstone Group	New York City	$24,639.84
4	Apollo Global Management	New York City	$22,298.02
5	TPG	San Francisco	$18,782.59
6	CVC Capital Partners	Luxembourg	$18,082.35
7	General Atlantic	New York City	$16,600.00
8	Ares Management	Los Angeles	$14,113.58
9	Clayton Dubilier & Rice	New York City	$13,505.00
10	Advent International	Boston	$13,228.09
11	EnCap Investments	Houston	$12,400.20
12	Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area	New York City	$12,343.32
14	Warburg Pincus	New York City	$11,213.00
15	Silver Lake	Menlo Park	$10,986.40
16	Riverstone Holdings	New York City	$10,384.26
17	Oaktree Capital Management	Los Angeles	$10,147.28
18	Onex	Toronto	$10,097.21
19	Ardian (formerly AXA Private Equity)	Paris	$9,805.25
20	Lone Star Funds	Dallas	$9,731.81