Largest Private Equity Firms

Here you will find a list of the largest private equity firms from around the world. Click on the firm name to read the profile, review salary information, see employee reviews and see the latest news about each firm. Each firm’s headquarters is in parenthesis.

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Advent International (Murray Hill, NJ)

AlpInvest Partners (New York, NY)

American Capital (Bethesda, MD)

Apax Partners (New York, NY)

Apollo (New York, NY)

Ardian (formerly AXA Private Equity) (New York, NY)

Ares Management (Los Angeles, CA)

Bain Capital (Boston, MA)

BC Partners (New York, NY)

CDH Investments (Hong Kong, HK)

Cerberus Capital Management (New York, NY)

Charterhouse Capital Partners (London, UK)

Cinven (London, UK)

Clayton Dubilier & Rice (New York, NY)

CVC Capital Partners (New York, NY)

EIG Global Energy Partners (Washington DC, WA)

EnCap Investments (Houston, TX)

Energy Capital Partners (Short Hills, NJ)

EQT Partners (White Plains, NY)

General Atlantic (Greenwich, CT)

Georgian Co-investment Fund (GCF) (Tbilisi, Georgia)

Goldman Sachs Principal Investments (New York, NY)

GTCR Golder Rauner (Chicago, IL)

Hellman & Friedman (San Francisco, CA)

HgCapital (London, UK)

JP Morgan Asset Management (New York, NY)

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (New York, NY)

Leonard Green & Partners (Los Angeles, CA)

Lone Star Funds (Dallas, TX)

MBK Partners (Seoul, S. Korea)

Mount Kellett Capital (New York, NY)

Nordic Capital (Stockholm, Sweden)

Oaktree Capital Management (Los Angeles, CA)

Onex (Toronto, Canada)

Permira (New York, NY)

Pine Brook Road Partners (New York, NY)

Riverstone Holdings (New York, NY)

RRJ Capital (Hong Kong, HK)

Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) (Moscow, Russia)

Sequoia Capital (Menlo Park, CA)

Silver Lake Partners (Menlo Park, CA)

Stone Point Capital (Greenwich, CT)

TA Associates (Boston, MA)

The Blackstone Group (New York, NY)

The Carlyle Group (Washington, DC)

TPG Capital Management (Fort Worth, TX)

Triton Partners (Frankfurt, Germany)

Vista Equity Partners (San Francisco, CA)

Warburg Pincus & Co. (New York, NY)

Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (New York, NY)