List of private equity firms

Below is a list of notable private equity firms.

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]

BNP Paribas Développement Paris 2016 - Goldman Sachs Principal Investments Area Five Arrows Capital Partners[5] New York 2018[7] - ^ Defunct banking institution