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TOP 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]







Rank

Name of the firm

Headquarters

Capital Raised as of May 2012
(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

$ 10.50



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




[edit] List of investment banking private equity groups

The following is a list of notable private equity firms and merchant banking and other private equity groups that currently reside within investment banking firms or have previously completed a spinout from an investment banking firm:

[defunct]



Parent bank

Private equity firm

Location

Year founded

Year independent



ABN AMRO

AAC Capital Partners

Amsterdam

-

2008



Barclays Capital

Barclays Private Equity

London

1982

-



Barings Bank

Baring Vostok Capital Partners
Baring Private Equity Asia

Moscow, Russia
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

Paris

1993

1998



BT Alex. Brown ^

ABS Capital

Baltimore

1990

1995



Charterhouse Bank ^

Charterhouse Capital Partners
Charterhouse Group

London
New York

1982
1973

2001
1989



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



Continental Illinois ^

Willis Stein & Partners
CIVC Partners

Chicago
Chicago

1983
1983

1995
1994



Credit Suisse / Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette

DLJ Merchant Banking
Asset Management Finance (AMF)
Avista Capital Partners
Diamond Castle Holdings
Castle Harlan

New York
New York
New York
New York

1985
1985
1985
1987

na
2005
2004
1987



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

New York

1986

na



Hambros Bank ^

Duke Street Capital

London

1988

1998



Jefferies Group, Inc. ^

Jefferies Capital Partners

New York

1994

-



JPMorgan Chase

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



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



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