Silver Lake Partners
Silver Lake is a US-based private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in technology, technology-enabled and related industries. Founded in 1999, the firm is an investment firm in the technology sector and among its investments are Avaya, Sabre Holdings, UGS Corp., Skype, Seagate Technology and Instinet.
Silver Lake operates through three primary businesses, all focused on technology investments:
- Silver Lake Partners make private equity investments in large cap technology companies. Silver Lake Partners was the firm's original business founded by Glenn Hutchins, Dave Roux and Jim Davidson and comprises the bulk of the firm's assets under management.
- Silver Lake Sumeru – focuses on technology investments in middle-market companies. The Sumeru business was formerly known as Shah Capital founded by Ajay Shah.
- Silver Lake Financial a credit focused business invests in distressed debt securities in companies in the technology sector.
The firm, which is headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California has about 75 investment staff across offices in New York City, London and Hong Kong.
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