List of Private Equity Firms - Largest Private Equity Firms

Largest 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. A previous ranking had been published in 2007.

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 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 $ 15.10
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

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