General Atlantic is a leading global investor with more than four decades of experience providing capital and strategic support for over 500 growth companies throughout its history. Established in 1980 to partner with visionary entrepreneurs and deliver lasting impact, the firm combines a collaborative global approach, sector specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great entrepreneurs and management teams to scale innovative businesses around the world. General Atlantic has more than $77 billion in assets under management inclusive of all products as of June 30, 2023, and more than 220 investment professionals based in New York, Amsterdam, Beijing, Hong Kong, Jakarta, London, Mexico City, Miami, Mumbai, Munich, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Stamford and Tel Aviv.
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EQT Group
Stockholm, Sweden
EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organisation with nearly three decades of consistent investment performance across multiple geographies, sectors, and strategies
Charterhouse is one of the longest established private equity firms operating in Europe. The firm connects expertise and capital, partnering with ambitious founders and management teams to drive transformational change. Charterhouse has a selective, conviction-led approach to investing in high-quality mid-market European companies across the Services, Healthcare, Specialised Industrials and Consumer sectors. It targets transactions with an enterprise value of between €200m and €1.5bn.
Charterhouse’s international team works in an integrated and flexible manner, allowing the firm to combine the skills, knowledge and experience of its entire team to help build successful businesses over the long term. The firm has completed more than 150 acquisitions over 35 years of activity in the European buyout market.
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Bain Capital
Boston, United States
We are one of the world’s leading private investment firms with approximately $180 billion in assets under management that creates lasting impact for our investors, teams, businesses and the communities in which we live. Founded in 1984, we pioneered a consulting-based approach to private equity investing, partnering closely with management teams to offer the insights that challenge conventional thinking, build great businesses and improve operations. Over time, we have organically expanded this approach across asset classes to build one of the strongest alternative asset platforms in the world.
Unigestion is a privately-owned boutique asset manager of Swiss heritage, providing innovative, tailored solutions for investors worldwide. The firm manages circa $11bn of private equity assets, with a focus on midmarket and lower midmarket primary, secondary and co-investment solutions. In addition to a range of top performing funds, the firm has decades of experience running bespoke mandates, which today account for the majority of our overall assets under management.
Source: Unigestion, as at June 2024.
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Ara Partners
Houston, United States
Ara Partners is a global private equity and infrastructure investment firm focused on industrial decarbonization. Founded in 2017, Ara Partners seeks to build and scale companies with significant decarbonization impact across the industrial and manufacturing, chemicals and materials, energy efficiency and green fuels, and food and agriculture sectors. The company operates from offices in Houston, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Dublin. Ara Partners closed its third private equity fund in December 2023 with over $2.8 billion in capital commitments. As of September, 2024, Ara Partners had approximately $6.3 billion of assets under management.