List of private-equity firms

Below is a list of notable private equity firms.

Largest private equity firms by PE capital raised

Each year Private Equity International publishes the PEI 300, a ranking of the largest private-equity firms by how much capital they have raised for private-equity investment in the last five years.^[1]

In the 2026 ranking, there were no changes to the top three, with KKR retaining the top spot from EQT AB and Blackstone Inc..^[2]

2026 PEI 300 rank	Firm	Headquarters	Five-year fundraising total ($m)
1	KKR	New York City	140,363
2	EQT AB	Stockholm	134,393
3	Blackstone	New York City	111,797
4	TPG	San Francisco	88,163
5	Thoma Bravo	Chicago	71,855
6	Hg	London	70,245
7	Bain Capital	Boston	60,367
8	General Atlantic	New York City	59,496
9	Advent International	Boston	59,280
10	Goldman Sachs Alternatives	New York City	58,661
11	Clayton, Dubilier & Rice	New York City	49,536
12	CVC Capital Partners	Luxembourg France	49,471
13	Hellman & Friedman	San Francisco	49,006
14	Warburg Pincus	New York City	48,350
15	Clearlake Capital Group	Santa Monica, California	42,450
16	Andreessen Horowitz	Menlo Park, California	42,072
17	Insight Partners	New York City	38,621
18	Leonard Green & Partners	Los Angeles	38,357
19	HarbourVest Partners	Boston	36,811
20	Vista Equity Partners	Austin, Texas	34,330
21	Veritas Capital	New York	33,063
22	The Carlyle Group	Washington D.C.	31,410
23	Apollo Global Management	New York	31,348
24	TA Associates	Boston	30,500
25	Stone Point Capital	Greenwich, Connecticut	30,109
26	Neuberger Berman Private Markets	New York	29,615
27	Blue Owl Capital	New York	29,455
28	Silver Lake	Menlo Park, California	29,450
29	Partners Group	Baar	28,536
30	Sequoia Capital	Menlo Park, California	28,267

List of investment banking private equity groups

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 ^	KKR 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 Alternatives	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 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

^ Defunct banking institution

Notable private equity firms

See also

• Private equity
• Private-equity firm
• Private-equity fund
• History of private equity and venture capital
• Sovereign wealth fund
• List of exchange-traded funds

References