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.
Accursia Capital
Munich special-situations and turnaround investor founded in 2017 by Martin Scheiblegger, with a second office in Milan.…
ACC Holding
ACC Holding is an owner-managed, independent private equity holding based in Hamburg that provides long-term equity capi…
Trigon Equity Partners
Trigon Equity Partners is a Frankfurt-based private equity firm founded in 2010 that acquires majority stakes in German-…
Altris Partners
Altris Partners is a Hamburg-based evergreen SME investment holding founded in 2019 by ex-McKinsey partners Dr. Hans-Ger…
RCP Invest
RCP Invest (RCP Group GmbH) is a Munich/Teltow-based, family-owned investment firm founded in 2014 by Ulrich Radlmayr, f…
CAPCELLENCE Mittelstandspartner
CAPCELLENCE Mittelstandspartner is a Hamburg-based independent single-family-office private equity holding founded in 20…
HBL InvestmentPartners
HBL InvestmentPartners is a Frankfurt-based small-mid buyout firm founded in 2018 that pools capital from successful Ger…
Endurance Capital
Endurance Capital is a Munich-based private mid-market holding company founded in 2003 that invests its own equity, back…
Caldec Holding
Caldec Holding is an independent Hamburg-based entrepreneurial holding company that makes long-term direct equity invest…
Findos Investor
Findos Investor is an independent Munich-based small-mid-cap private equity firm founded in 2006 that acquires majority…
Lafayette Mittelstand Capital
Lafayette Mittelstand Capital is a Munich-operated, Luxembourg-domiciled special-situations investor founded in 2009 tha…
ATON GmbH
ATON GmbH is the Munich-based evergreen industrial holding of the Helmig family, founded in 2001 by Dr. Lutz M. Helmig a…
PREMIUM Equity Partners
PREMIUM Equity Partners is a Frankfurt-based small-cap private equity firm founded in 2011 that acquires majority stakes…
Harald Quandt Industriebeteiligungen
Harald Quandt Industriebeteiligungen (HQIB) is a Bad Homburg-based evergreen investment holding of the Harald Quandt fam…
Droege Group
Droege Group is an independent, fully family-owned advisory and investment company founded in 1988 by Walter P. J. Droeg…
QVM Privatkapital
QVM Privatkapital is an independent, owner-managed Hamburg investment firm founded in 2017 by former Lampe Privatinvest…
Navigator Capital GmbH
Navigator Capital is a Dusseldorf-based owner-managed industrial holding founded in 2016 by Christian Muschick and Dr. J…
Deutsche Mittelstandsholding
Deutsche Mittelstandsholding (DMH) is a Frankfurt-based evergreen holding company that provides long-term equity to smal…
VTC Industriebeteiligungen
VTC (VTC Industriebeteiligungen / VTC Unternehmer GmbH) is an independent evergreen industrial holding based in Munich,…
DUBAG Group
DUBAG Group is a Munich-based private equity advisory firm founded in 2009 that specializes in special-situations invest…
Family Trust Investor FTI
Family Trust Investor FTI GmbH is a Munich-based, BaFin-registered manager of closed-end special AIFs (registered sub-th…
Bitburger Holding
Bitburger Holding GmbH is the family-equity holding of the Simon entrepreneurial family (owners of the Bitburger brewery…
Tempus Capital
Tempus Capital is an owner-managed private equity firm founded in 2008 in Frankfurt am Main by Martin Herrmann and Marco…
Arcaris Management GmbH
Arcaris Management GmbH is an independent, partner-owned direct-holdings investor founded in 2013 in Dusseldorf, through…
Brockhaus Technologies
Brockhaus Technologies AG is a Frankfurt-listed evergreen technology holding (formerly Brockhaus Capital Management AG,…
Serafin Unternehmensgruppe
Serafin Unternehmensgruppe is a Munich-based family industrial evergreen holding founded in 2010 by Philipp Haindl, Falk…
Alveus Beteiligungen
Alveus Beteiligungen is a Munich-based family-owned evergreen Mittelstand holding founded in 2012 that acquires majority…
Palero
Palero (palero capital GmbH) is a Munich-based small and mid-cap special-situations investor founded in 2010 that acquir…
DRS Investment
DRS Investment is a Munich-based evergreen software holding founded in 2017 by Dr. Andreas Spiegel and backed by the per…
SKion GmbH
SKion GmbH is the evergreen investment holding of German entrepreneur Susanne Klatten, founded in 2006 after the sale of…
AFINUM Management GmbH
AFINUM is a Munich-based mid-cap private equity house founded in 2000, investing majority stakes in profitable DACH Mitt…
International Chemical Investors Group
International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG) is a privately held evergreen industrial holding founded in 2004 by Dr. Ac…
Aheim Capital
Aheim Capital is an owner-managed, independent Munich-based investment firm founded in 2005 in Starnberg that acquires m…
DEDIQ
DEDIQ is a Munich-based entrepreneur-investor (family equity) firm founded in 2011 that invests its own long-term capita…
AEQUITA
AEQUITA is a Munich-based evergreen industrial holding and family office founded in 2018 by Dr. Axel Geuer and Christoph…
Cipio Partners
Cipio Partners is a Munich-headquartered growth capital and secondary-directs investment firm founded in 2003, one of th…
APEX Capital
APEX Capital GmbH is a private, independent, owner-managed evergreen industrial holding founded in Berlin in 2006 by ent…
ELF Capital Group
ELF Capital Group is a Frankfurt-based private credit manager providing flexible, mostly senior-secured financing (typic…
INDUS Holding AG
INDUS Holding AG is a listed (SDAX, ticker INH, ISIN DE0006200108) German buy-and-hold industrial holding based in Bergi…
Triton Partners
Founded 1997 by Peder Prahl; describes itself as a fully integrated European mid-market private equity and credit platfo…
MTV CAPITAL IM
MTV CAPITAL IM is an independent asset management company based in Paris, specializing exclusively in commercial real es…
ACCESS CAPITAL PARTNERS
Access Capital Partners, founded in 1998 and based in Paris, is an independent European private assets manager specializ…
Omada Investment Managers
Omada Investment Managers is an AMF-regulated Paris-based SGP licensed in 2024 under GP code GP-20240025 evolved from th…
Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault
Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault (GIMD) is the family-owned holding company of the Dassault family established in 1929…
ETERNAM
Eternam, founded in 2011 and a subsidiary of Groupe Cyrus, is an AMF-authorized portfolio management company specializin…
Bpifrance Investissement
Bpifrance Investissement is the investment management company of Bpifrance, the French public investment bank, operating…
Montyon Capital
Montyon Capital is a Paris-based private equity firm founded in 2024 by Pascal Lebard and Pierre Menard that takes major…
Isai Gestion
ISAI Gestion is a French venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2009, managing approximately c550 million i…
Jadel
Jadel est une société d'investissement entrepreneuriale française, créée en 2021, qui accompagne les PME ambitieuses dan…
Re-Sources Capital
Re-Sources Capital is a French private equity firm founded in 2014, based in La Madeleine, specializing in supporting th…
Reed Management
Reed - Societe Generale Group is a European investment firm founded in 2023 that brings together industrial expertise, t…
Smalt Capital
Créée en 2000, Smalt Capital est une société française de capital-investissement basée à Marseille, spécialisée dans le…
Sofival
Sofival is a French family-controlled industrial and investment holding (Blas and Lemoine families, HQ Russy-Bemont in O…
Chequers Partenaires
Chequers Partenaires SA is a private equity firm based in Paris, France, founded in 1992, specializing in investments in…
KEPLER CHEUVREUX INVEST
Out-of-scope quarantine: Kepler Cheuvreux is an independent Pan-European equity broker (research, execution, fixed incom…
LT Capital
Quarantined 2026-05-19: DB record LT Capital conflated TWO distinct venture and PE firms with identical trading name. Th…
SOFIDEP
Sofidep is a public economic development organization in French Polynesia that has been investing for over 20 years in g…
Vermeer Capital
Vermeer Capital is an independent Paris-based private equity firm founded in 2008 by Jean-Louis Detry. The firm speciali…
Sagard
Sagard is a French private equity firm founded in 2002 as Sagard SAS, the Paris-based principal investments arm of Power…
PRISTINE
Pristine is a French asset management and trust firm founded in 2016, providing fiducie and fund structuring and managem…
TELAMON
Telamon Partners is a private equity firm focused on the Greek mid-market, partnering with management teams to unlock su…
FemuQui Ventures
Femuqui Ventures is an independent portfolio management company founded in 1992, specializing in private equity investme…
Compagnie Financière et de Participations Roullier
Compagnie Financiere et de Participations Roullier (CFPR) is the financial holding company of Groupe Roullier, the Saint…
MIDI 2I
Créée en 2005, MIDI 2i est une société de gestion de portefeuilles immobiliers, filiale de la Caisse d'Epargne de Midi-P…
Ardian
Ardian is a global diversified private markets firm headquartered in Paris, France, founded in 1996. It manages or advis…
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…
Kester Capital
Kester Capital LLP is a London-based lower mid-market private equity firm focused on primary buyouts in Technology and L…
August Equity
August Equity is a London-based private equity firm investing in lower mid-market, service-led UK businesses through pri…
Blue Coast Capital
Blue Coast Capital is the London-based investment organisation of the Lewis family, founders and owners of the River Isl…
Rutland Partners
Rutland Partners LLP is a London-based private equity firm specialising in special-situations, turnaround and value buyo…
Beech Tree Private Equity
Beech Tree PE LLP, trading as Beech Tree Private Equity, is a private equity firm founded in 2015 and based in Wilmslow,…
LDC
LDC is the mid-market private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, founded in 1981 as Lloyds Development Capital, investi…
Growth Capital Partners
Growth Capital Partners LLP is an independent lower mid-market private equity firm founded in 1999 as Close Growth Capit…
Ama Capital
Ama Capital is a London-based lower mid-market private equity firm founded in 2024 by Miles Otway and Ed Ransome, both f…
Pelican Capital
Pelican Capital LLP is a London-based lower-mid-market private equity firm co-investing alongside family offices in prof…
Kings Park Capital
Kings Park Capital LLP is an independent lower mid-market private equity firm focused exclusively on the European leisur…
TPA Capital
TPA Capital LLP is a London-based private equity firm founded in 2013 by Greg Allen. It is an evergreen permanent-capita…
Charterhouse Capital Partners
Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP is one of Europe's oldest private equity firms, tracing its roots to 1934 and operatin…
Mobeus Equity Partners
Mobeus Equity Partners LLP (Companies House OC320577) is a London-based independent small-cap buyout firm founded in 200…
Equistone Partners Europe
Equistone Partners Europe is a London-headquartered pan-European mid-market buyout firm, independent since its 2011 mana…
Terra Firma
Terra Firma is a London-based private equity firm founded by Guy Hands in 2002 through the spin-out of Nomura's Principa…
Inspirit Capital
Inspirit Capital is a London-based private equity firm founded in 2019 by Will Stamp and Albert Farrant, specialising in…
Perwyn
Perwyn is a London-headquartered, family-backed European private and growth equity investor founded in 2013, operating a…
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…
Elysian Capital
Elysian Capital LLP is a London lower and mid-market private equity firm founded in 2007 by Ken Terry and Chai Patel, ba…
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; manager entity Foresight Group LLP, Comp…
TDR Capital
TDR Capital is a London-based pan-European private equity firm founded in 2002 by Manjit Dale and Stephen Robertson, man…
MetLife
MetLife Investment Management (MIM) is the institutional asset-management arm of MetLife Inc., the New York-listed US in…
ENTRUST GLOBAL
EnTrust Global SAS is a member of the EnTrust Global group, an alternative investment firm managing approximately $16.4…
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