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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]
Diagram of the structure of a generic private equity firm. 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.
EQT AB is a Swedish global investment organization founded in 1994. [2] Its funds invest in private equity, infrastructure, real estate, growth equity, and venture capital in Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. [8] As of 2022, EQT's assets under management are €210 billion / US$227 billion. [5]
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]
The following private equity firm or hedge fund owned companies have filed for bankruptcy protection: A&P (grocery chain) [1] Brookstone [2] Envision Healthcare [3] Friendly's [1] GenesisCare [3] Instant Brands (maker of Instant Pot and Pyrex) [4] Kmart [5] Party City [6] Payless Shoe Source [2] RadioShack [2] Red Lobster [4] RJR Nabisco [7 ...
Stonepeak (also known as Stonepeak Partners and Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners) is an American investment firm headquartered in New York City.The firm focuses on investments in infrastructure and more recently real estate.
Warburg Pincus LLC is a global private equity firm, headquartered in New York City, with offices in the United States, Europe, Brazil, China, Southeast Asia and India. [2] [3] Warburg has been a private equity investor since 1966.
Although the capital for private equity originally came from individual investors or corporations, in the 1970s, private equity became an asset class in which various institutional investors allocated capital in the hopes of achieving risk-adjusted returns that exceed those possible in the public equity markets. In the 1980s, insurers were ...