List of private equity firms

Largest private equity firms by PE capital raised

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	Permira Advisers	London	37,322
20	Bain Capital	Boston	37,105
21	Insight Partners	New York City	35,285
22	Cinven	London	34,978
23	Brookfield Asset Management	Toronto	32,830
24	TA Associates	Boston	32,500
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

2024 PEI 300 rank

Firm

Headquarters

Five-year fundraising total ($m)

123,993

103,241

99,123

77,570

61,934

60,178

59,060

52,939

51,730

51,365

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice

New York City

50,039

Silver Lake

Menlo Park, California

49,121

Hellman & Friedman

San Francisco

46,715

Vista Equity Partners

Austin, Texas

45,262

General Atlantic

New York City

43,482

Clearlake Capital Group

Santa Monica, California

42,941

Goldman Sachs Capital Partners

New York City

42,432

Leonard Green & Partners

40,870

37,322

37,105

35,285

34,978

Brookfield Asset Management

32,830

32,500

32,403

30,232

29,961

29,612

Apollo Global Management

New York

28,552

Andreessen Horowitz

Menlo Park, California

28,172

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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