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. The ranking was compiled by Private Equity International, which reveals that the world's 50 largest private equity direct investment programs have raised a total of US$551 billion since 2002.^[1]

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 2007 (billions of USD) 1 The Carlyle Group Washington DC $ 32.5 2 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts New York $ 31.1 3 Goldman Sachs Capital Partners New York $ 31.0 4 The Blackstone Group New York $ 28.36 5 TPG Capital Fort Worth $ 23.5 6 Permira London $ 21.47 7 Apax Partners London $ 18.85 8 Bain Capital Boston $ 17.3 9 Providence Equity Partners Providence, RI $ 16.36 10 CVC Capital Partners London $ 15.65 11 Cinven London $ 15.07 12 Apollo Management New York $ 13.9 13 3i Group London $ 13.37 14 Warburg Pincus New York $ 13.3 15 Terra Firma Capital Partners London $ 12.9 16 Hellman & Friedman San Francisco $ 12.0 17 CCMP Capital New York $ 11.7 18 General Atlantic Greenwich, CT $ 11.4 19 Silver Lake Partners Menlo Park, CA $ 11.0 20 Teachers' Private Capital Toronto $ 10.78 21 EQT Partners Stockholm $ 10.28 22 First Reserve Corporation Greenwich, CT $ 10.1 23 American Capital Bethesda, MD $ 9.57 24 Charterhouse Capital Partners London $ 9.0 25 Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking New York $ 8.5 26 Candover London $ 8.29 27 Fortress Investment Group New York $ 8.26 28 Sun Capital Partners Boca Raton, FL $ 8.0 29 BC Partners London $ 7.9 30 Thomas H. Lee Partners Boston $ 7.5 31 Leonard Green & Partners Los Angeles $ 7.15 32 Madison Dearborn Partners Chicago $ 6.5 33 Onex Toronto $ 6.3 34 Cerberus Capital Management New York $ 6.1 35 PAI Partners Paris $ 6.05 36 Bridgepoint Capital London $ 6.05 37 Doughty Hanson & Co London $ 5.9 38 AlpInvest Partners Amsterdam $ 5.4 39 TA Associates Boston $ 5.2 40 Berkshire Partners Boston $ 4.8 41 Pacific Equity Partners Sydney $ 4.74 42 Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe New York $ 4.7 43 Advent International Boston $ 4.6 44 GTCR Golder Rauner Chicago $ 4.6 45 Nordic Capital Stockholm $ 4.54 46 Oak Investment Partners Palo Alto, CA $ 4.06 47 Clayton, Dubilier & Rice New York $ 4.0 48 AAC Capital Partners (ABN Amro Capital)[2] Amsterdam $ 3.93 49 Oaktree Capital Management Los Angeles $ 3.93 50 Summit Partners Boston $ 3.88

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:

Parent bank	Private equity firm	Location	Year founded	Year independent
ABN AMRO	AAC Capital Partners	Amsterdam	-	2008
Barclays Capital	Barclays Private Equity	London	1982	-
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
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 Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking	New York New York New York	1985 1994 1986	1985 1994 -
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^[3]:

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

References