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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 2024 ranking, Blackstone Inc. retained the top spot from KKR. [2]
Global Infrastructure Partners was established in May 2006. Two founding investors in its first fund, GIP I, were Credit Suisse and General Electric. Both committed approximately 9% of the US$5.64 billion of GIP I's committed capital. The firm's first investment was announced in October 2006.
As of 2019, Blackstone was the world's largest private equity firm by capital commitments as ranked by Private Equity International's PEI 300 ranking. [171] After dropping to second behind KKR in the 2022 ranking, [172] it regained the top spot in 2023, [173] and retained it in 2024. [174]
KKR & Co. Inc., also known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., is an American global private-equity and investment company.As of December 31, 2023, the firm had completed private-equity investments in portfolio companies with approximately $710 billion of total enterprise value.
The firm has additional offices in Hong Kong, Houston, London, Sydney and Singapore. In 2022, the firm was ranked by Infrastructure Investor (under Private Equity International ) as the sixth largest infrastructure investment firm based on total fundraising over the most recent five-year period.
CIVC Partners, previously known as Continental Illinois Venture Corporation, is a Chicago-based private equity firm that presently has over $1.8 billion of equity capital under management. The firm's predecessor was established in 1970 as a subsidiary of Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company .
According to Private Equity International's latest PEI 300 ranking, [114] the largest private-equity firm in the world today is The Blackstone Group based on the amount of private-equity direct-investment capital raised over a five-year window. As ranked by the PEI 300, the 15 largest private-equity firms in the world in 2024 were: Blackstone Inc.
A private equity firm or private equity company (often described as a financial sponsor) is an investment management company that provides financial backing and makes investments in the private equity of a startup or of an existing operating company with the end goal to make a profit on its investments.