List of private equity firms explained

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 2024 ranking, Blackstone Inc. retained top spot back from KKR.^[2]

2024 PEI 300 rank	Firm	Headquarters	Five-year fundraising total ($m)
1	Blackstone Inc.	New York City	123,993
2	KKR	New York City	103,241
3	EQT AB	Stockholm	99,123
4	CVC Capital Partners	Luxembourg France	77,570
5	TPG Inc.	Fort Worth, Texas	61,934
6	The Carlyle Group	Washington D.C.	60,178
7	Thoma Bravo	Chicago	59,060
8	Advent International	Boston	52,939
9	Warburg Pincus	New York City	51,730
10	Hg	London	51,365
11	Clayton, Dubilier & Rice	New York City	50,039
12	Silver Lake	Menlo Park, California	49,121
13	Hellman & Friedman	San Francisco	46,715
14	Vista Equity Partners	Austin, Texas	45,262
15	General Atlantic	New York City	43,482
16	Clearlake Capital Group	Santa Monica, California	42,941
17	Goldman Sachs Capital Partners	New York City	42,432
18	Leonard Green & Partners	Los Angeles	40,870
19	TA Associates	Boston	40,000
20	Permira Advisers	London	37,322
21	Bain Capital	Boston	37,105
22	Insight Partners	New York City	35,285
23	Cinven	London	34,978
24	Brookfield Asset Management	Toronto	32,830
25	Genstar Capital	San Francisco	32,403
26	Blue Owl Capital	New York	30,232
27	Francisco Partners	San Francisco	29,961
28	Ares Management	Los Angeles	29,612
29	Apollo Global Management	New York	28,552
30	Andreessen Horowitz	Menlo Park, California	28,172

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
Bank of America	Ridgemont Equity Partners	Charlotte	1993	2010
-	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	19932016	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 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