GI Partners

GI Partners was founded in 2001 by Rick Magnuson and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm operates with a focus on middle market investments and has expanded its presence with offices in New York, Chicago, Greenwich, and Scottsdale. As of 2024, the firm has raised over $29 billion in capital from global institutional investors.

The firm's investment activity is organized into three primary strategies: private equity, real estate, and data infrastructure. The private equity team targets companies within the healthcare, IT infrastructure, services, and software sectors. The real estate and data infrastructure teams focus on technology-related properties, life sciences facilities, and hard assets that support the digital economy.

Throughout its history, GI Partners has been active in acquiring and recapitalizing businesses in specialized niche markets. Notable recent activity includes significant acquisitions in the cloud software, data center, and clinical trial technology spaces, as well as the sale of assets like DRFortress to institutional infrastructure investors.