List of the largest private equity firms

This list of the largest private equity firms is based on Private Equity International's annual list of the 300 largest private equity firms . The ranking is based on the average capital invested over the past five years.

Rank 2019	Rank 2015	Rank 2014	Rank 2013	Companies	Seat	Invested capital in millions (2019)
1	4th	3	3	Blackstone Group	New York City , United States	$ 82,851
2	1	1	2	Carlyle Group	Washington, DC , United States	$ 63,802
3	3	2	4th	Kohlberg Kravis Roberts	New York City , United States	$ 47,977
4th	6th	6th	10	CVC Capital Partners	Luxembourg , Luxembourg	$ 47,413
5	9	14th	5	Warburg Pincus	New York City , United States	$ 36,557
6th	10	21st	9	Bain Capital	Boston , United States	$ 35,554
7th	18th	26th	40	EQT Partners	Stockholm , Sweden	$ 30,054
8th	32			Thoma Bravo	Chicago , United States	$ 29,880
9	5	4th	8th	Apollo Global Management	New York City , United States	$ 29,001
10	23			Neuberger Berman	New York City , United States	$ 28,884
11	14th	22nd	22nd	Hellman & Friedman	San Francisco , United States	$ 26,900
12	2	5	1	Texas Pacific Group	Fort Worth , United States	$ 25,661
13	7th	11	16	EnCap Investments	Houston , United States	$ 21,097
14th	11	48	59	Vista Equity Partners	San Francisco , United States	$ 19,785
15th	34	29	52	Apax Partners	London , UK	$ 18,615
16	28	7th	12	General Atlantic	Greenwich (Connecticut) , United States	$ 16,916
17th	27	9	33	Clayton Dubilier & Rice	New York City , United States	$ 16,509
18th	17th	36		Permira	London , UK	$ 16,394
19th	8th	10	7th	Advent International	Boston , United States	$ 16,026
20th	13	15th	27	Silver Lake	Menlo Park , United States	$ 15,000
21st	12			Partners Group	Baar ZG , Switzerland	$ 14,726
22nd	24	23	81	Stone Point Capital	Greenwich (Connecticut) , United States	$ 14,544
23	37			Bridgepoint	London , UK	$ 14,264
24				Brookfield Asset Management	Toronto , Canada	$ 14,197
25th	31	18th	43	Onex Corporation	Toronto, Canada	$ 14,106
26th	26th	24	23	BC Partners	London, UK	$ 13,275
27				Genstar Capital	San Francisco , United States	$ 13,100
28				PAI partners	Paris , France	$ 13,061
29				Hillhouse Capital Group	Beijing , People's Republic of China	$ 12,725
30th	47	39	39	Leonard Green & Partners	Los Angeles, United States	$ 12,238
31	35			Insight Venture Partners	New York, United States	$ 12,236
32	25th			American Securities Capital Partners	New York, United States	$ 12,000
33	44			Baring Private Equity Asia	Hong Kong	$ 11,833
34	29	27	30th	Cinven	London , UK	$ 11,548
35	19th			NGP Energy Capital Management	Irving , United States	$ 11,355
36		19th	29	Ardian (AXA Private Equity)	Paris , France	$ 10,975
37				New Mountain Capital	New York City , United States	$ 10,585
38	21st	12	6th	Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division	New York City , United States	$ 10,500
39	41			Tiger Global Management	New York City , United States	$ 10,250
40				Quantum Energy Partners	Houston , United States	$ 10,040
41				Pacific Alliance Group	Hong Kong	$ 9,950
42	20th	16	11	Riverstone Holdings	New York City , United States	$ 9,904
43				L Catterton	Greenwich (Connecticut) , United States	$ 9,838
44				Affinity Equity Partners	Hong Kong	$ 9,800
45				HarbourVest Partners	Boston , United States	$ 9,599
46	39	33	101	GTCR Gold Rauner	Chicago , United States	$ 9,100
47				Roark Capital Group	Atlanta , United States	$ 9,000
48				Eurazeo	Paris , France	$ 8,956
49	22nd	8th	18th	Ares management	Los Angeles , United States	$ 8,650
50				Adams Street Partners	Chicago , United States	$ 8,498
	15th			Centerbridge Capital Partners	New York City , United States
	16	37	50	Energy Capital Partners	Short Hills (New Jersey) , United States
	30th	32		Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF)	Moscow , Russia
	33	35	90	HgCapital	London , UK
	36	30th	57	Triton Partners	Frankfurt am Main , Germany
	38			BDT Capital Partners	Chicago , United States
	40			Pamplona Capital Management	London , UK
	42	34	51	Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe	New York City , United States
	43	43	48	RRJ Capital	Hong Kong
	45	47	44	Sequoia Capital	Menlo Park , United States
	46			Energy & Minerals Group (EMG)	Houston , United States
	48	17th	14th	Oaktree Capital Management	Los Angeles , United States
	49			Abraaj Group	Dubai , United Arab Emirates
	50	40		Georgian Co-investment Fund (GCF)	Tbilisi , Georgia
		13	53	EIG Global Energy Partners	Washington, DC , United States
		20th	15th	Lone Star Funds	Dallas , United States
		25th	13	JP Morgan Asset Management	New York City , United States
		28	31	Mount Kellett Capital	New York City , United States
		31	36	Cerberus Capital Management	New York City , United States
		38	25th	Nordic Capital	Stockholm , Sweden
		41	46	TA Associates	Boston , United States
		42	28	American Capital	Bethesda, Maryland , United States
		44	202	Pine Brook Road Partners	New York City , United States
		45	62	Charterhouse Capital Partners	London , UK
		46	35	CDH Investments	Hong Kong
		49	67	AlpInvest Partners	Amsterdam , Netherlands
		50	102	MBK Partners	Seoul , South Korea

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• PEI 300 2014
• PEI 300 2015
• PEI 300 2019