List of private-equity firms

Below is a list of notable private-equity firms.

Largest private-equity firms by PE capital raised[]

In 2019, Private Equity International ranked the largest private-equity firms by how much capital they raised for private-equity investment in the last five years: ^[1]

Rank	Firm	Headquarters	Five-year fundraising total (m)
1	The Blackstone Group	New York City	$82,851
2	The Carlyle Group	Washington D.C.	$63,802
3	KKR & Co.	New York City	$47,977
4	CVC Capital Partners	Luxembourg	$47,413
5	Warburg Pincus	New York City	$36,557
6	Bain Capital	Boston	$35,554
7	EQT Infrastructure	Stockholm	$30,054
8	Thoma Bravo	Chicago	$29,880
9	Apollo Global Management	New York City	$29,001
10	Neuberger Berman	New York City	$28,884
11	Hellman & Friedman	San Francisco	$26,900
12	TPG Capital	Fort Worth, Texas	$25,661
13	EnCap Investments	Houston	$21,097
14	Vista Equity Partners	Austin, Texas	$19,785
15	Apax Partners	London	$18,615
16	General Atlantic	New York City	$16,916
17	Clayton, Dubilier & Rice	New York City	$16,509
18	Permira	London	$16,394
19	Advent International	Boston	$16,026
20	Silver Lake	Menlo Park, California	$15,000

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
Barclays Capital	Equistone Partners Europe	London	1979	2011^[2]
Barings Bank ^	Baring Vostok Capital Partners Baring Private Equity Asia	Moscow Hong Kong	1994 1997	2004 2004
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 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) One Equity Partners	New York Chicago	1984 2001	2006 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^[3] Five Arrows Capital Partners^[4]	Paris New York	2010^[5] 2018^[6]	- -
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