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Top 50 Buyout Firms - May 2007

By The Prince ⋅ February 21, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

20 Feb 2008 - Here is an interesting list ranking PE shops by size of all PE funds combined.  It is only as of May 2007 and some of these funds have raised more funds since then however, it is interesting none the less.  Here are the top 20:

1 The Carlyle Group $32.5 billion
2 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts $31.1 billion
3 Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area $31 billion
4 The Blackstone Group $28.36 billion
5 TPG $23.5 billion
6 Permira $21.47 billion
7 Apax Partners $18.85 billion
8 Bain Capital $17.3 billion
9 Providence Equity Partners $16.36 billion
10 CVC Capital Partners $15.65 billion
11 Cinven $15.07 billion
12 Apollo Management $13.9 billion
13 3i Group $13.37 billion $
14 Warburg Pincus $13.3 billion
15 Terra Firma Capital Partners $12.9 billion
16 Hellman & Friedman $12 billion
17 CCMP Capital $11.7 billion
18 General Atlantic $11.4 billion
19 Silver Lake Partners $11 billion
20 Teachers’ Private Capital $10.78 billion