Cartel Blue Inc (CRTL)

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The new owner may want to look at this list of top private equity firms worldwide to raise money,capital raised in the billions!!!!

Largest private equity firms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_equity_firms

The following is a ranking of the largest private equity firms published in 2011. The ranking was compiled by Private Equity International, which reveals that the world's 50 largest private equity direct investment programs have raised in excess of US$325 billion since 2006.[1] A previous ranking had been published in 2007.[2]

The list includes very few venture capital firms, which tend to be smaller than their leveraged buyout counterparts; for a list of those see List of venture capital firms.






Rank

Name of the firm

Headquarters

Capital Raised as of Apr 2011
(billions of USD)




1

TPG Capital

Fort Worth

$ 50.55



2

Goldman Sachs Capital Partners

New York

$ 47.22



3

The Carlyle Group

Washington DC

$ 40.54



4

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts

New York

$ 40.21



5

The Blackstone Group

New York

$ 36.42



6

Apollo Management

New York

$ 33.81



7

Bain Capital

Boston

$ 29.4



8

CVC Capital Partners

London

$ 25.07



9

First Reserve Corporation

Greenwich, CT

$ 19.06



10

Hellman & Friedman

San Francisco

$ 17.20



11

Apax Partners

London

$ 16.64



12

General Atlantic

Greenwich, CT

$ 15.10



13

Warburg Pincus

New York

$ 15.00



14

Cerberus Capital Management

New York

$ 14.90



15

Advent International

Boston

$ 14.52



16

Permira

London

$ 13.67



17

Oaktree Capital Management

Los Angeles

$ 13.05



18

Terra Firma Capital Partners

London

$ 12.25



19

Providence Equity Partners

Providence, RI

$ 12.10



20

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice

New York

$ 11.40



21

Charterhouse Capital Partners

London

$ 11.27



22

Teachers' Private Capital

Toronto

$ 10.76



23

Madison Dearborn Partners

Chicago

$ 10.60



24

TA Associates

Boston

$ 10.55



25

Silver Lake Partners

Menlo Park, CA

$ 10.50



26

Lone Star Funds

Dallas

$ 10.41



27

Thomas H. Lee Partners

Boston

$ 10.10



28

Cinven

London

$ 15.07



29

Riverstone Holdings

New York

$ 9.67



30

J.C. Flowers & Co.

New York

$ 9.30



31

AXA Private Equity

Paris

$ 9.03



32

AlpInvest Partners

Amsterdam

$ 8.87



33

3i Group

London

$ 8.73



34

Nordic Capital

Stockholm

$ 8.73



35

Fortress Investment Group

New York

$ 8.68



36

EnCap Investments

Houston, TX

$ 8.47



37

Onex

Toronto

$ 8.34



38

Lindsay Goldberg

New York

$ 7.87



39

Citi Capital Advisors

New York

$ 7.80



40

Ares Management

Los Angeles

$ 7.79



41

Summit Partners

Boston, MA

$ 7.75



42

Bridgepoint Capital

London

$ 7.72



43

Marfin

Athens

$ 7.31



44

EQT Partners

Stockholm

$ 7.20



45

NGP Energy Capital Management

Dallas

$ 7.11



46

Energy Capital Partners

Short Hills, NJ

$ 6.59



47

Stone Point Capital

Greenwich, CT

$ 6.40



48

Abraaj Capital

Dubai

$ 6.20



49

Golden Gate Capital

San Francisco

$ 6.11



50

GTCR Golder Rauner

Chicago

$ 6.00