Doughty Hanson & Co. is a British private equity fund manager focused on leveraged buyout and recapitalization transactions primarily of upper middle-market companies in Europe.

The firm also invests opportunistically in European real estate and provides early-stage venture capital to technology companies.

In 1990 they established CWB Partners, a joint private equity venture between Standard Chartered and Westdeutsche Landesbank.

Doughty Hanson's three product areas operate as separate fund families: In June 2007 Doughty Hanson became one of the first private equity signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI), which provide a framework for incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment decision-making and ownership practices.

[citation needed] Since inception, Doughty Hanson has raised over €8 billion across its five private equity funds.