Buyout GPs in Europe
Discover European private equity GPs focused on buyout strategies. From large-cap LBOs to mid-market management buyouts, these firms acquire controlling stakes in established businesses to drive operational improvements and value creation.
ICG
ICG plc (Intermediate Capital Group) is a London-listed (FTSE 100) global alternative asset manager founded in 1989, man…
Bridgepoint
Bridgepoint Group plc is a London-headquartered private markets firm founded in 1984 and listed on the London Stock Exch…
Permira
Permira is a global private equity firm founded in 1985 that invests through flagship buyout funds and dedicated growth…
Apax Partners
Apax Partners LLP is a global private equity firm headquartered in London, investing in buyout and growth deals across t…
Hg
Hg is a London-headquartered private equity firm founded in 2000, focused on software and business-services buyouts acro…
3i
3i Group plc is a London-listed (LSE: III, FTSE 100) international investment manager focused on mid-market private equi…
BC Partners
BC Partners is a London-headquartered global alternative investment firm founded in 1986, best known for its large-cap E…
Vitruvian Partners
Vitruvian Partners LLP is a London-headquartered growth-buyout private equity firm founded in 2006 by former partners of…
Foresight Group
Foresight Group is a London Stock Exchange listed investment manager (LSE: FSG), whose management entity Foresight Group…
TDR Capital
TDR Capital is a London-based pan-European private equity firm founded in 2002 by Manjit Dale and Stephen Robertson, man…
Montagu Private Equity
Montagu Private Equity is a London-based pan-European mid-market buyout firm founded in 1968, focused on management buyo…
IK Partners
IK Partners is a pan-European mid-market private equity firm founded in 1989 as Industri Kapital and headquartered in Lo…
Oakley Capital
Oakley Capital is a London-based pan-European private equity firm founded in 2002, investing across technology, educatio…
Inflexion
Inflexion is a European mid-market private equity firm founded in 1999 by John Hartz and Simon Turner and headquartered…
Investindustrial
Investindustrial is a European mid-market buyout firm founded by the Bonomi family that invests in mid-sized companies a…
GHO Capital
GHO Capital (Global Healthcare Opportunities) is a London-based specialist healthcare investment firm founded in 2014, r…
Charterhouse Capital Partners
Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP is one of Europe's oldest private equity firms, tracing its roots to 1934 and operatin…
EMK Capital
EMK Capital is a London-based private equity firm founded in 2015 by Edmund Lazarus and Mark Joseph, investing in upper-…
Equistone Partners Europe
Equistone Partners Europe is a London-headquartered pan-European mid-market buyout firm, independent since its 2011 mana…
Exponent Private Equity
Exponent Private Equity is a London-based mid-market private equity firm founded in 2004 that invests in UK-headquartere…
Livingbridge
Livingbridge is a London-based mid-market private equity firm founded in 1995 (formerly ISIS Equity Partners, rebranded…
Caledonia Investments
Caledonia Investments plc is a London-based, self-managed FTSE 250 investment trust (LSE: CLDN) incorporated in 1928 and…
G Square Healthcare PE
G Square Healthcare Private Equity LLP is a London-based pan-European private equity firm founded in 2008 by Laurent Gan…
Epiris
Epiris is a London-based mid-market buyout firm formerly known as Electra Partners, which became independent from Electr…
Duke Street
Duke Street is a London mid-market private equity firm investing in Western European consumer, healthcare, industrials a…
Stirling Square Capital Partners
Stirling Square Capital Partners is a London-headquartered pan-European mid-market private equity firm founded in 2002.…
Alchemy Partners
Alchemy Partners is a London-based private-equity and special-situations investment firm founded in 1997 by Martin Bolla…
ECI Partners
ECI Partners is a UK growth-focused mid-market private equity firm founded in 1976 as Equity Capital for Industry under…
Bowmark Capital
Bowmark Capital LLP is a London-based mid-market private equity firm founded in 1997 (originally Sagitta Private Equity,…
Synova
Synova is a London-based private equity firm founded in 2007 by David Menton and Philip Shapiro, investing in lower and…
AnaCap Financial Partners
AnaCap Financial Partners is a London-based mid-market private equity and private credit firm founded in 2005, investing…
Mayfair Equity Partners
Mayfair Equity Partners LLP is a London-based growth-buyout private equity firm founded in 2014 by Daniel Sasaki, invest…
Endless
Endless LLP is a Leeds-headquartered UK private equity investor specialising in turnaround, special situations and trans…
Tenzing
Tenzing Private Equity is a London-based lower-mid-market growth-equity and buyout firm founded in 2015 that backs high-…
CBPE Capital
CBPE Capital LLP is a London-based lower and mid-market private equity firm founded in 1984 as Close Brothers Private Eq…
Ardian
Ardian is a global diversified private markets firm headquartered in Paris, France, founded in 1996. It manages or advis…
Bpifrance Investissement
Bpifrance Investissement is the investment management company of Bpifrance, the French public investment bank, operating…
Tikehau Capital
Tikehau Capital is a global alternative asset management group founded in 2004 and headquartered in Paris. It manages ap…
Wendel
Wendel is a French listed investment firm tracing its origins to the Wendel family iron-making heritage founded in 1704.…
PAI Partners
PAI Partners is one of the leading European private equity firms, founded in 1872 and headquartered in Paris. It manages…
LFPI GESTION
La Financiere Patrimoniale d'Investissement (LFPI) is a major French alternative asset manager founded 2003 with around…
Sagard
Sagard is a French private equity firm founded in 2002 as Sagard SAS, the Paris-based principal investments arm of Power…
NextStage AM
NextStage AM is an independent asset management company based in Paris, founded in 2002, specializing in multi-strategy…
EDF Invest
EDF Invest is the investment arm of the EDF Group managing an unlisted asset portfolio intended to cover the future deco…
ARCHIMED
ARCHIMED is a global private equity firm founded in 2014 and headquartered in Lyon, France, focused exclusively on healt…
Omnes Capital
Omnes Capital is a leading European private equity firm founded in 1999, dedicated to the energy transition and innovati…
Quilvest Capital Partners
Quilvest Capital Partners is a leading global investment manager specializing in the middle market segment, managing ass…
Equistone Partners
Equistone Partners Europe is an independent European mid-market private equity firm headquartered in London with offices…
Extendam
Extendam is an independent, management-owned AMF-regulated private equity firm and Europe's leading investor dedicated t…
Seven2
Seven2, formerly Apax Partners, is a leading independent European private equity firm founded in 1972 and headquartered…
Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity (France)
Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity (France) is the AMF-regulated French portfolio management arm of the Edmond de Roths…
Peugeot Invest
Peugeot Invest is a listed long-term investment company, majority-owned by Établissements Peugeot Frères, founded in 192…
Crédit Mutuel Equity
Crédit Mutuel Equity is a French private equity firm that has been supporting startups, SMEs, and mid-sized companies fo…
ISALT
ISALT is an independent portfolio management company founded in 2019, specializing in long-term equity investments in Fr…
Audacia
Audacia is an independent French private equity firm founded in 2006, specializing in growth capital for family SMEs and…
IRD Invest
IRD Invest is the investment arm of Groupe IRD, a Hauts-de-France regional sponsor founded in 1991 and based in Marcq-en…
Idia
IDIA Capital Investissement, founded in 1980 and based in Montrouge, France, is the private equity arm of Crédit Agricol…
Argos Wityu
Argos Fund is an independent European private equity group founded in 1989, headquartered in Paris, specializing in mid-…
MML Capital
MML Capital Partners is an international mid-market private equity firm founded in 1988, investing alongside management…
Turenne Groupe
Founded in 1999, Turenne Groupe is a French private equity firm managing over €2 billion in assets and supporting more t…
Weinberg Capital Partners
Independent French mid-cap private-equity firm founded in 2005 by Serge Weinberg and Philippe Klocanas; manages around E…
L Catterton Europe
L Catterton Europe is the Paris-based European consumer buyout platform of L Catterton, the LVMH-backed global consumer-…
Entrepreneur Invest
Entrepreneur Invest is a French independent asset management company founded in 2000, specializing in financing French g…
Triton Partners
Triton is a European mid-market private equity and credit investor founded in 1997 by Peder Prahl and owned by its partn…
Viessmann Generations Group
Viessmann Generations Group is the Allendorf-based family-equity and holding platform of the Viessmann family, recast as…
L. Possehl & Co. mbH (Possehl Group)
Possehl is a Luebeck-based, foundation-owned industrial holding whose sole shareholder has been the non-profit Possehl-S…
BU Bregal Unternehmerkapital
DACH mid-market buyout and growth firm founded in Munich in 2015 by Florian Schick and Jan-Daniel Neumann together with…
Armira
Armira is a Munich-based investment holding founded in 2008 by Alexander Schemann that invests permanent capital from en…
Castik Capital
Castik Capital is a European private equity firm founded in June 2014 by Michael Phillips and partners spinning out of A…
NORD Holding
Hannover private equity investor founded in 1969 and rooted in the Sparkassen savings-bank and VGH insurance orbit, with…
DPE Deutsche Private Equity
Munich mid-market buyout and growth firm founded in 2007 by Marc Thiery and Volker Hichert, initially operating as Parco…
Elvaston Capital Management
Elvaston Capital Management is a Berlin-based, entrepreneur-led private equity firm founded in 2009 by Dr. Oliver Thum a…
Deutsche Beteiligungs AG
Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG) is a Frankfurt-listed private equity firm (SDAX, HRB 52491) founded in 1965 and listed s…
Franz Haniel & Cie
Franz Haniel & Cie. is a wholly family-owned investment holding based in Duisburg and founded in 1756, pursuing an enkel…
Paragon Partners
Paragon Partners is a Munich-based private equity firm founded in 2004 that acquires mid-market companies in the DACH re…
AGIC Capital
AGIC Capital is a Euro-Asian private equity firm founded in 2015 by Henry Cai, investing in industrial technology, advan…
CDP Equity
CDP Equity is the evergreen strategic-equity arm of Italian state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, wholly owned by CDP…
F2i SGR
F2i is Italy's largest independent infrastructure asset manager, founded in 2007 and based in Milan, investing in transp…
Finint Investments SGR
Finint Investments SGR (legally Finanziaria Internazionale Investments SGR S.p.A.) is the multi-asset alternative asset…
Tamburi Investment Partners (TIP)
Tamburi Investment Partners (TIP) is a Milan-listed independent evergreen investment-merchant holding founded by Giovann…
Fondo Italiano d'Investimento SGR
Fondo Italiano d'Investimento SGR is a Milan-based, state-anchored asset manager created in 2010 on the initiative of It…
Renaissance Partners
Renaissance Partners is a Milan- and Luxembourg-based private equity firm and one of the leading Italian-led mid-large b…
Tages Capital SGR
Tages Capital SGR is a Milan-based Italian alternative asset manager and the private-markets arm of the Tages group, foc…
Italmobiliare
Italmobiliare is a Milan-listed investment holding company controlled by the Pesenti family and founded in 1946 as the f…
Nextalia SGR
Nextalia SGR is a Milan-based independent Italian asset manager founded in 2021 by former Mediobanca banker Francesco Ca…
Quadrivio Group
Quadrivio Group is a Milan-based private equity and alternative investments firm founded in 1999, running a family of th…
EQT
EQT is a global private-markets investment firm listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, operating flagship strategies in Private Cap…
Nordic Capital
Nordic Capital is a leading Nordic/European private equity (buyout) firm founded in 1989, focused on Healthcare, Technol…
Patricia Industries
Patricia Industries is the wholly-owned subsidiaries arm of Investor AB, the Wallenberg-controlled listed holding compan…
Altor Equity Partners
Altor Equity Partners is a Nordic-focused private equity firm making buyout and growth investments in mid-market and lar…
Nordstjernan
Nordstjernan is a family-controlled Swedish investment company founded in 1890 and controlled by the Axel and Margaret A…
Monterro
Monterro is a Stockholm-based private equity firm founded in 2012 that takes majority control positions in profitable No…
Impilo
Impilo is a Nordic healthcare-focused investment company founded in 2017 by former Altor partners Fredrik Stromholm and…
Bure Equity
Bure Equity is a Stockholm-listed permanent-capital investment company, formed in 1992 from Sweden's wound-up wage-earne…
Asterion Industrial Partners
Asterion Industrial Partners is a Madrid-based independent mid-market infrastructure investment manager founded in 2018…
Portobello Capital
Portobello Capital is an independent Iberian mid-market private equity manager based in Madrid, founded in 2010 by a tea…
Trilantic Europe
Pan-European mid-market buyout firm spun out of Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking in 2009, with offices in Madrid, Milan,…
Cobepa
Cobepa is an independent Belgian investment holding company founded in 1957 and headquartered in Brussels, with addition…
Apheon
Apheon Advisors France S.A is a pan-European mid-market private equity firm founded in 2005, managing approximately €4.5…
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