Private Equity in Financial Services
Insurance brokerage, wealth management, specialty finance, and fintech-adjacent platforms.
Firms Active in Financial Services
Adams Street Partners is a global private equity firm headquartered in Chicago that specializes in fund of funds strategies, venture capital, and private credit.
Advent International is a global private equity firm specializing in buyouts of companies across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
Affinity Equity Partners is a leading Pan-Asian private equity firm focusing on leveraged buyouts and growth capital transactions across the Asia-Pacific region.
Apollo Global Management is a leading American asset management firm that specializes in alternative asset classes including credit, private equity, and real assets.
Avenue Capital Group is an American multinational investment firm specializing in distressed securities and private equity.
Bain Capital is an American private investment firm that specializes in a wide array of alternative asset classes including private equity, venture capital, and credit.
Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA) was a leading Asian investment firm headquartered in Hong Kong, focusing on private equity, real estate, and credit.
BDT & MSD Partners is an American merchant bank that provides investment advisory services and manages an investment platform focused on family and founder-led companies.
Blue Owl Capital is an American alternative investment asset management company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
BNP Paribas Développement is the private equity arm of the French multinational universal bank BNP Paribas, specializing in minority investments in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Bridgepoint Group is a British private investment company that specializes in private equity and credit, listed as a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
The Carlyle Group Inc. is an American multinational financial company specializing in private equity, alternative asset management, and financial services.
CCMP Capital is an American private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital transactions.
Centerbridge Partners is a multi-strategy private investment firm that specializes in leveraged buyouts and distressed securities.
Cerberus Capital Management is an American global alternative investment firm specializing in credit, private equity, and real estate strategies.
Cinven is a global private equity firm that acquires corporations based in Europe and the United States, as well as emerging market firms.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is a prominent American private equity firm and one of the oldest in the world, specializing in buyouts and turnaround management.
CrossHarbor Capital Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm specializing in alternative investments, including real assets, distressed securities, and mezzanine capital.
Defoe Fournier & Cie. was an independent boutique investment and merchant banking company that operated from 1824 to 2016.
Diamond Castle Holdings is a New York-based private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts and growth capital investments in middle-market companies.
DLJ Merchant Banking Partners (now aPriori Capital Partners) is a private equity firm originally founded as the investment arm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
DLJ Merchant Banking Partners (now aPriori Capital Partners) is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout transactions, originally founded as the merchant banking arm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
EQT AB is a leading Swedish global investment organization that manages funds across private equity, infrastructure, real estate, and venture capital.
Equistone Partners Europe is an independent investment firm that specializes in middle-market buyouts across Europe.
Eurazeo is a leading French private equity firm and investment group headquartered in Paris with a diversified global portfolio.
Five Arrows is the alternative assets arm of Rothschild & Co, deploying firm capital alongside private and institutional investors.
Fremont Group is a San Francisco-based private investment firm and family office that manages the capital of the Bechtel family.
FFL Partners, previously known as Friedman Fleischer & Lowe, is an American private equity firm focused on middle-market investments.
Frontenac is a Chicago-based private equity firm that specializes in lower middle market buyout transactions within the consumer, industrial, and services sectors.
General Atlantic is a leading global growth equity firm that provides capital and strategic support for growth companies.
Genstar Capital is an American private equity firm that executes leveraged buyout transactions in middle-market companies based in North America.
Golden Gate Capital is an American private equity firm based in San Francisco that specializes in leveraged buyouts and growth capital investments.
Hamilton Lane is an American alternative investment management and advisory firm that provides private markets investments to global clients.
HarbourVest Partners is a global private equity fund of funds and investment manager that invests in third-party funds and directly in operating companies.
Hellman & Friedman (H&F) is a leading American private equity firm that specializes in leveraged buyouts and growth capital investments across core service-oriented sectors.
Highland Capital Management is an alternative investment management firm specializing in hedge funds, structured investment vehicles, and mutual funds.
Hillhouse Investment is a Singapore-headquartered global private equity firm that invests in businesses across various stages and lifecycles.
J.C. Flowers & Co. is an American private equity investment firm that specializes exclusively in the financial services sector.
Lightyear Capital is an American private equity firm based in New York City that focuses on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments within the financial services sector.
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (now part of Macquarie Asset Management) is a leading global alternative asset manager and the world's largest infrastructure manager.
MBK Partners is one of the largest private equity firms in Asia, focusing on buyout and special situations investments in the North Asian market.
Neuberger Berman is a private, independent, employee-owned investment management firm that manages portfolios across equities, fixed income, private equity, and hedge funds.
Nordic Capital is a global, sector-specialist private equity firm focused on leveraged buyouts of established companies in Northern Europe and North America.
Onex Corporation is a major Canadian investment management firm that operates as a public company traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
PAG is a leading Asian private investment firm managing assets across private equity, real estate, private debt, and hedge funds.
Partners Group is a Swiss-based global private markets investment firm focused on private equity, infrastructure, real estate, and debt.
Silver Lake is a prominent American private equity firm that specializes in leveraged buyouts and growth capital investments in the technology and technology-enabled sectors.
Société Générale Capital Partenaires is the private equity arm of the French multinational financial services group Société Générale.
Stone Point Capital is a private equity firm that focuses on investments in the global financial services industry.
The Carlyle Group is an American multinational private equity and financial services firm specializing in alternative asset management. It is one of the largest investment firms in the world, operating across private equity, real assets, and private credit.
The Cypress Group is an American private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyout investments across various industry sectors.
Trilantic Capital Partners is a global private equity firm focused on control and significant minority investments in the business services, consumer, energy, healthcare, and industrial sectors.
UBS Capital (now part of UBS Asset Management) is the private equity and private markets arm of the Swiss multinational financial services firm UBS.
Warburg Pincus is a leading global private equity firm and growth investor with a history dating back to 1966.