Firm Overview
Silver Lake Partners, founded in 1999 to develop investments in mature technology businesses, is an international private equity firm with over $26 billion in combined assets under management.
Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the firm also has offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo, and employs over seventy-five investment professionals. Silver Lake focuses on growth capital and leveraged buyout investments in large cap technology companies.
Silver Lake Partners is the large-cap investment arm of Silver Lake, which also includes Silver Lake Sumeru, focusing on middle-market technology companies, and Silver Lake Financial, specializing in distressed debt securities in the technology sector. Silver Lake Partners works with technology businesses in positions of market leadership, seeking to increase portfolio company values through creative structuring, management team consultation, and investments focused on value growth.
The firm also works with the Silver Lake dedicated Value Creation team, a group of investment professionals with broad international experience and depth of technology investment expertise who work with management teams to develop improvement opportunities and assist with due diligence analysis and investment opportunity evaluation.
Prominent Silver Lake Partners portfolio companies include audiovisual communication software producer Skype, Intelsat satellite services, enterprise software conglomerate SunGard, Avago semiconductors, and Gerson Lehrman Group, a technology consulting network.
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