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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 2025 ranking, KKR regained the top spot from Blackstone Inc. who fell to third, behind EQT AB.[2]

List of investment banking private equity groups

^ Defunct banking institution

Notable private equity firms

Americas

  • 🇺🇸 3G Capital
  • 🇺🇸 ABS Capital
  • 🇺🇸 Adams Street Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Advent International
  • 🇺🇸 AEA Investors
  • 🇺🇸 American Securities
  • 🇺🇸 Angelo, Gordon & Co.
  • 🇺🇸 Apollo Global Management
  • 🇺🇸 Ares Management
  • 🇺🇸 Arlington Capital Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Auldbrass Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Avenue Capital Group
  • 🇺🇸 Avista Capital Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Bain Capital
  • 🇺🇸 BDT & MSD Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Berkshire Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Blackstone
  • 🇺🇸 Blue Owl Capital
  • 🇺🇸 Blum Capital
  • 🇺🇸 Brentwood Associates
  • 🇺🇸 Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co.
  • 🇺🇸 Brynwood Partners
  • 🇺🇸 CapitalG
  • 🇺🇸 Carlyle Group
  • 🇺🇸 Castle Harlan
  • 🇺🇸 CCMP Capital
  • 🇺🇸 Centerbridge Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Cerberus Capital Management
  • 🇺🇸 Charlesbank Capital Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Chicago Growth Partners
  • 🇺🇸 CIVC Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
  • 🇺🇸 Clearlake Capital
  • 🇺🇸 Colony Capital
  • 🇺🇸 Court Square Capital Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Crescent Capital Group
  • 🇺🇸 CrossHarbor Capital Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Crossroads Group
  • 🇺🇸 Cypress Group
  • 🇺🇸 Defoe Fournier & Cie.
  • 🇺🇸 Diamond Castle Holdings
  • 🇺🇸 DLJ Merchant Banking Partners
  • 🇺🇸 EIG Global Energy Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Elevation Partners
  • 🇺🇸 EnCap Investments
  • 🇺🇸 Energy Capital Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Fenway Partners
  • 🇺🇸 First Reserve Corporation
  • 🇺🇸 Forstmann Little & Company
  • 🇺🇸 Fortress Investment Group
  • 🇺🇸 Fox Paine & Company
  • 🇺🇸 Francisco Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Freeman Spogli & Co.
  • 🇺🇸 Fremont Group
  • 🇺🇸 Friedman Fleischer & Lowe
  • 🇺🇸 Frontenac Company
  • 🇺🇸 General Atlantic
  • 🇺🇸 Genstar Capital
  • 🇺🇸 GI Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Golden Gate Capital Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Goldman Sachs Alternatives
  • 🇺🇸 Gores Group
  • 🇧🇷 GP Investimentos
  • 🇺🇸 GTCR
  • 🇺🇸 H.I.G. Capital
  • 🇺🇸 Hamilton Lane
  • 🇺🇸 Harbert Management Corporation
  • 🇺🇸 HarbourVest Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Harvest Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Heartland Industrial Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Hellman & Friedman
  • 🇺🇸 Highbridge Capital Management
  • 🇺🇸 Highland Capital Management
  • 🇺🇸 HM Capital Partners
  • 🇺🇸 HPS Investment Partners
  • 🇺🇸 InterMedia Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Irving Place Capital
  • 🇺🇸 J.H. Whitney & Company
  • 🇺🇸 J.W. Childs Associates
  • 🇺🇸 JC Flowers
  • 🇺🇸 JLL Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Jordan Company
  • 🇺🇸 Kelso & Company
  • 🇺🇸 Khosla Ventures
  • 🇺🇸 Kinderhook Industries
  • 🇺🇸 KKR
  • 🇺🇸 Kleiner Perkins
  • 🇺🇸 Kohlberg & Company
  • 🇺🇸 KPS Capital Partners
  • 🇺🇸 L Catterton
  • 🇺🇸 Landmark Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Lee Equity Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Leeds Equity Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Leonard Green & Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Lexington Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Lightyear Capital
  • 🇺🇸 Lincolnshire Management
  • 🇺🇸 Lindsay Goldberg Bessemer
  • 🇺🇸 Littlejohn & Co.
  • 🇺🇸 Lone Star Funds
  • 🇺🇸 Lovell Minnick Partners
  • 🇺🇸 LRG Capital Funds
  • 🇺🇸 Lux Capital
  • 🇺🇸 Madison Dearborn Partners
  • 🇺🇸 MatlinPatterson Global Advisors
  • 🇺🇸 Metalmark Capital
  • 🇺🇸 MidOcean Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Morgan Stanley Private Equity
  • 🇺🇸 New Mountain Capital
  • 🇺🇸 NRDC Equity Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Oak Hill Capital Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Oak Investment Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Olympus Partners
  • 🇺🇸 One Equity Partners
  • 🇨🇦 Onex Corporation
  • 🇺🇸 Pamlico Capital
  • 🇺🇸 Pathway Capital Management
  • 🇺🇸 Platinum Equity
  • 🇺🇸 Providence Equity Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Quadrangle Group
  • 🇺🇸 Redpoint Ventures
  • 🇺🇸 Rhône Group
  • 🇺🇸 Ripplewood Holdings
  • 🇺🇸 Riverside Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Riverstone Holdings
  • 🇺🇸 Roark Capital Group
  • 🇺🇸 RPX Corporation
  • 🇺🇸 Sentinel Capital Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Silver Lake Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Stonepeak
  • 🇺🇸 Summit Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Sun Capital Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Sycamore Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Symphony Technology Group
  • 🇺🇸 TA Associates
  • 🇺🇸 Tavistock Group
  • 🇺🇸 TCV
  • 🇺🇸 Thayer Hidden Creek
  • 🇺🇸 Thoma Bravo
  • 🇺🇸 Thoma Cressey Bravo
  • 🇺🇸 Thomas H. Lee Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Tiger Global Management
  • 🇺🇸 TowerBrook Capital Partners
  • 🇺🇸 TPG Capital
  • 🇺🇸 Trilantic Capital Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Trivest
  • 🇺🇸 TSG Consumer Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Värde Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Veritas Capital
  • 🇺🇸 Veronis Suhler Stevenson
  • 🇺🇸 Vestar Capital Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Vista Equity Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Vivo Capital
  • 🇺🇸 Vulcan Capital Management
  • 🇺🇸 Warburg Pincus
  • 🇺🇸 Warwick Energy Group
  • 🇺🇸 Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
  • 🇺🇸 Wesray Capital Corporation
  • 🇺🇸 Weston Presidio
  • 🇺🇸 Willis Stein & Partners
  • 🇺🇸 Wind Point Partners
  • 🇺🇸 WL Ross & Co.
  • 🇺🇸 Yucaipa Cos.
  • 🇺🇸 Zelnick Media Capital

Asia

EMEA

See also

  • Private equity
  • Private-equity firm
  • Private-equity fund
  • History of private equity and venture capital
  • Sovereign wealth fund
  • List of exchange-traded funds

Related lists

Other lists

References

  1. The Largest Private Equity Firms in the World Private Equity International, 2025-06-02, retrieved 2025-06-02^
  2. Hannah Zhang. KKR tops PEI 300 as fundraising stalls Private Equity International, 2025-06-02, retrieved 2025-06-02^
  3. Barclays to Sell Private-Equity Unit Equistone to Management - Bloomberg^
  4. Corporate Private Equity - Merchant Banking - Rothschild & Co www.rothschildandco.com, retrieved 2022-01-15^
  5. Corporate Private Equity – Merchant Banking – Rothschild & Co www.rothschildandco.com, retrieved 2022-01-15^
  6. Rothschild plans to diversify from its core Financial Times, 2010-11-28, retrieved 2022-01-15^
  7. Merchant Banking - Presentation to analysts and investors^