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]

2025 PEI 300 rank	Firm	Headquarters	Five-year fundraising total ($m)
1	KKR	New York City	117,889
2	EQT AB	Stockholm	113,257
3	Blackstone Inc.	New York City	95,721
4	Thoma Bravo	Chicago	88,181
5	TPG Inc.	Fort Worth, Texas	72,584
6	CVC Capital Partners	Luxembourg France	72,465
7	Hg	London	72,462
8	Hellman & Friedman	San Francisco	50,215
9	Clayton, Dubilier & Rice	New York City	49,784
10	Insight Partners	New York City	48,163
11	Silver Lake	Menlo Park, California	47,100
12	Clearlake Capital Group	Santa Monica, California	45,178
13	General Atlantic	New York City	44,716
14	Goldman Sachs Capital Partners	New York City	42,601
15	Bain Capital	Boston	40,547
16	Advent International	Boston	38,223
17	The Carlyle Group	Washington D.C.	36,400
18	Warburg Pincus	New York City	34,234
19	Andreessen Horowitz	Menlo Park, California	34,224
20	Vista Equity Partners	Austin, Texas	31,881
21	Apollo Global Management	New York	31,349
22	Neuberger Berman Private Markets	New York	31,303
23	TA Associates	Boston	30,500
24	GTCR	Chicago	30,180
25	Veritas Capital	New York	29,677
26	Bridgepoint	London	29,323
27	New Mountain Capital	New York	28,537
28	Partners Group	Baar	27,334
29	Cinven	London	27,208
30	Apax Partners	London	27,205

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	1993 2016	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 (fka JPMorgan Partners) 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

^ Defunct banking institution

Notable private equity firms

Americas

Asia

EMEA

References

^ "The Largest Private Equity Firms in the World | PEI 300". Private Equity International. 2025-06-02. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
^ Zhang, Hannah (2025-06-02). "KKR tops PEI 300 as fundraising stalls". Private Equity International. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
^ Barclays to Sell Private-Equity Unit Equistone to Management - Bloomberg
^ "Corporate Private Equity - Merchant Banking - Rothschild & Co". www.rothschildandco.com. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
^ "Corporate Private Equity – Merchant Banking – Rothschild & Co". www.rothschildandco.com. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
^ "Rothschild plans to diversify from its core". Financial Times. 2010-11-28. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
^ "Merchant Banking - Presentation to analysts and investors" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-01-15.

[1] "The Largest Private Equity Firms in the World | PEI 300". Private Equity International. 2025-06-02. Retrieved 2025-06-02.

[2] Zhang, Hannah (2025-06-02). "KKR tops PEI 300 as fundraising stalls". Private Equity International. 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" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-01-15.

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