Asset Classes

Private Equity

Acronym
PE
Parent Asset Class

Private Equity is any form of private equity that is not traded on public stock exchanges.

Entities

10T Holdings
ACIES Asset Management AG
AM Ventures
Abacus Wealth Partners
Abry Partners
Acquisition.com
Aetos Alternatives Management
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Albourne Partners
Albright Capital
Allied Capital Corporation
Andromeda Capital Management
Appaloosa Management
Ashurst
Avalon Investment & Advisory
Avenue Capital Group
BCA Research
Bain & Company
Bain Capital
Beringea
CAIA Association
CB Insights
COSIMO Ventures
CV Labs
CV VC
Carbon Direct
Castle Hill Capital Partners
Centerbridge Partners
Cerberus Capital Management
Chang Holding Company
Character
CircleUp
Citrin Cooperman
Clayton Dubilier & Rice
Coast Capital
Cooper Family Office
Cott Law Group
Cresset Capital
Crestline Investors
Croatan Investments
DWS Group
DarcMatter
Davidson Kempner Capital Management
Draper Associates
Dynamo Software
ENAM
Empire Valuation Consultants
Endowment Wealth Management
FS Investments
Family Office Networks
Farmland LP
Founders Fund
Galaxy Interactive
Gondola
Greylock Capital Management
Grove Street Advisors
Gust
HOF Capital
HPS Investment Partners
Harmonic Fund Services
Hatteras Investment Partners
Healthspan Capital
Henning Financial Services
Impax Asset Management Group
Investcorp
Investment Banking Institute
Khosla Ventures
Learn Capital
Lincoln International
Lone Pine Capital
MJ Hudson
Mobius Capital Partners
Morgan Creek Capital Management
NexPoint
Noetic Fund
OAKS Asset Management
Onchain Capital
PAG
PGIM
PPB Capital Partners
Palm Beach Research Group
Palomar Capital
Parataxis Capital
PitchBook Data
Polygon Global Partners
Portland Investment Counsel
Prime Trust
Pulley
Quantum Energy Partners
RFA
Rally Ventures
Recharge Capital
Reinsurance Group of America
Reservoir Capital Group
Rosenzweig & Company
SPRK Investors
STRATA Trust Company
Safanad
Salient
Searchlight Capital
Shearman & Sterling
Short Hills Capital Partners
Space Capital
Stanford Management Company
Stifel
Strategic Investment Group
Swarm Network
Swiss Hill Advisors
Texas Wall Street Women
The Carlyle Group
The DeRosa Group
The Morgan Report
Three Cairns Group
Thrive Capital
Tiger Global Management
Toscafund Asset Management
Tower Fund Services
Trammell Venture Partners
TriVest Wealth
True Ventures
Two Sigma
UNC Management Company
Van Lanschot Kempen
Verdad Advisers
Wavemaker Partners
White Tundra Investments
Wind Point Partners
York Capital Management
iConnections

Entity Types

Financial Services
Private Equity Fund

Strategies

Impact Investing
Venture Capital

Terms

Alternative Investments
Collateralized Loan Obligation
Leveraged Buyout

Aaron Kaplan

Adam Dell

Adam Coffey

Adam Nash

Alan Zafran

Alex Felix

Alex Höptner

Alex Topping

Alexander Stahel

Alice Schroeder

Amelia Bourdeau

Ami Joseph

Amlan Roy

Anatoly Crachilov

Andrea Gentilini

Andreas Clenow

Andrew Beer

Andrew Freedman

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Andrew Saunders

Andrew Schneider

André Vanyi-Robin

Andy Edstrom

Andy McCulloch

Angelo Robles

Anthony Canale

Anthony Scaramucci

Artem Milinchuk

Aryeh Bourkoff

Austin Root

Avi Gilburt

Barclay Leib

Barry Garber

Barry Ritholtz

Bart Stephens

Basil Karatzas

Ben Carlson

Ben Chrnelich

Ben Forman

Ben Hunt

Bill Kaye

Bill Poulos

Bill Selig

Bill Tai

Bill Walton

Blake Masters

Bob Elliott

Bob Johnson

Bob Lang

Bonawyn Eison

Bonner Barnes

Brad Stephens

Brad Thomas

Brendan Ballou

Brendan Lake

Bret Jensen

Brian Ascher

Brian Pallas

Brian Portnoy

Brian Werdesheim

Brien Lundin

Brooker Belcourt

Bruce Fenton

Bruce Mumford

Bruce Munster

Bruce Phelps

Bryan Cavalier

Buck Wiley III

Bundeep Singh Rangar

Cameron Hight

Cameron Winklevoss

Carl Delfeld

Carter Malloy

Catherine Crockett

Cedric Nash

Cem Karsan

Chance Pipitone

Charles Brandes

Charles Mizrahi

Charles Weinstein

Chris Bailey

Chris Blasi

Chris Castroviejo

Chris Cole

Chris Cooke

Chris Gimbert

Chris Knowlton

Chris Macintosh

Chris Rossbach

Chris Sullivan

Christine Breck

Christophe Tanghe

Clay Gardner

Clayton DeGiacinto

Coleman Andrews

Colleen Sullivan

Cormac Kinney

Cosmo Jiang

Courtney Smith

Craig Wichner

Cromwell Coulson

Cullen Roche

Damion Lupo

Dan Alpert

Dan Barclay

Dan Chung

Dan Greenhaus

Dan Kingston

Dan Laszlo

Dan Morehead

Dan Oliver Jr.

Dan Rasmussen

Dan Shepherd

Dan Tapiero

Dan Zwirn

Dana Stewardson

Daniel Lacalle

Daniel Strachman

Danielle Booth

Daniël de Blocq van Scheltinga

Darius Dale

Darren Richman

Daryl Jones

Dave Descalzi

Dave Layton

David Adelman

David Blumberg

David Bonanno

David Bonderman

David Collins

David Dorr

David Fried

David Krejca

David Martin

David Merkel

David Modiano

David Morgan

David Nage

David Pakman

David Perkins

David Rubenstein

David Siegel

David Siemer

David Trainer

Debashish Bose

Dee Smith

Deepak Shenoy

Dennis Chen

Dennis Lockhart

Dev Kapadia

Diana Choyleva

Don Jones

Don d'Adesky

Doug MacKay

Douglas Borthwick

Douglas Bratton

Drianne Benner

Dror Poleg

Dwight Emanuelson

Edward Altman

Egon von Greyerz

Eli Rauch

Emma Giamartino

Eric Boroian

Eric Johnston

Eric Malchow

Eric Muschinski

Eric Peters

Erik Bethel

Fotios Piniros

Francis Woo

Frank Bruno

Frank Burke

Frank Holmes

Frank Parker

Frank Seminara

Fred Thiel

Friedrich Bieselt

Gary Brode

Gary Tenkman

Gavin McMaster

Gavin von Loeser

Genevieve Roch-Decter

Geoffrey Webster

George Brod

Gideon Greaves

Gil Luria

Gina Sanchez

Giovanni Pozzi

Glenn Degenaars

Graham Summers

Greg Drose

Greg Mauro

Greg Onken

Greg Reid

Greg Tusar

Hank Boughner

Hans Humes

Harvey Hudes

Henry Kravis

Hilary Kramer

Howard Cooper

Howard Penney

Howard Schilit

Hrish Lotlikar

Ivan Barretto

JG Savoldi

Jake Weber

James Ferguson

James Medeiros

Janet Brown

Jared Bibler

Jared Dillian

Jason Goepfert

Jason Katz

Jason Mendelson

Jason Pagoulatos

Jay Rosenzweig

Jeff Aronson

Jeff Berwick

Jeff Colin

Jeff Dorman

Jeff Fischer

Jeff Kilburg

Jeff Miller

Jeffrey Himelson

Jeffrey Mettel

Jeffrey Tannenbaum

Jim Lawson

Jim McLaughlin

Jim Moriarity

Jim Osman

Jim Pallotta

Jim Puplava

Joe Lawler

Joe McAlinden

Joel Litman

John Brice

John Exley

John Fichthorn

John Jagerson

John Morris

John Quinn

John White

Jon Gray

Jon Najarian

Jonathan Cohen

Jonathan Krane

Jonathan Satovsky

Jonathan Sherry

Jonathan Wellum

Jordan Waxman

Joseph Calandro Jr

Josh Dorkin

Josh Harris

Josh Ho

Josh Holt

Josh Wolfe

Josh Young

Justin Boisseau

Justin Carbonneau

Justin Saslaw

Justin Weinkle

Jérôme Stern

Karen Brennan

Karen Harris

Keith Black

Keith McCullough

Keith Schaefer

Kenny Estes

Kent Collier

Kerry Pogue

Kevin Cott

Kevin Massengill

Kinjal Amin

Komal Sri-Kumar

Kori Hale

Krassen Draganov

Kris Tuttle

Kyle Kazan

Lance Roberts

Larry Lepard

Larry McDonald

Lars Seier Christensen

Lawrence Lewitinn

Lawson Steele

Lee Robinson

Leigh Drogen

Leland Miller

Leo Hindery

Leo Kolivakis

Lex Sokolin

Lily Liu

Lori Van Dusen

Luke Burgis

Luke Ellis

Luke Gromen

Luke Nosek

Mac Overton

Magdalena Polan

Marc Bhargava

Marc Chaikin

Marc Mahon

Marcelo Lopez

Marcos Carreira

Marissa Kim

Mark Anson

Mark Cullen

Mark Gabbay

Mark Gallogly

Mark Hake

Mark Kohler

Mark Mobius

Mark Pattimore

Mark Roberts

Mark Sear

Mark Walsh

Mark Whitmore

Mark Yusko

Marshall Stocker

Martin Green

Martin Pelletier

Marty Fridson

Mary Childs

Mash Patel

Matt Dillig

Matt Hogan

Matt Peron

Matt Rowe

Matt Zames

Matteo Perruccio

Matthew Hudson

Matthew Waz

Matthias Knab

Maureen Farrell

Maziar Minovi

Meb Faber

Michael Asher

Michael Breit

Michael Covel

Michael Howell

Michael Kao

Michael Kramer

Michael Nicoletos

Michael Parekh

Michael Pusateri

Michael Rubenstein

Michael Safai

Michael Sonnenshein

Michael Weisz

Michelle Noyes

Mick McGuire

Mike Alfred

Mike Green

Mike Kessler

Mike Kurz

Mike Lazorik

Mike Milken

Mike Robinson

Mike Rothman

Mish Shedlock

Mo Shaikh

Moritz Seibert

Moss Crosby

Nadine Terman

Neal Berger

Nelly Nyambi

Niall Boland

Nick Arnott

Nick Kavallieratos

Nick Lawson

Nick Talwar

Nico Cordeiro

Nithin Kamath

Nizar Tarhuni

Noreen Beaman

Oliver Gale

Oliver Haarmann

Oscar Vollmer

Patrick Hurley

Paul Hodges

Paul Kohlhaas

Paul Lisiak

Pedro Ramos

Pei Chen

Pelli Wang

Pete Nickerson

Peter Albano

Peter Clare

Peter Cogan

Peter Diamandis

Peter Leidel

Peter Mallouk

Peter Mintzberg

Peter Nieh

Peter Thiel

Phil Taylor-Guck

Philip Kessler

Piers Ridyard

Pietro Ventani

Pippa Malmgren

Prateek Mehrotra

Preston McSwain

Quinn Thompson

R.P. Eddy

Ram Ahluwalia

Ray Uy

Rayne Steinberg

Reza Zafari

Rich Apostolik

Rich Pluta

Richard Couch

Rick Rule

Rishi Narang

Rob Brown

Rob Frasca

Rob Riedl

Robert Doty

Robert Grunewald

Robin Fink

Roger McNamee

Roger Montgomery

Rory Johnston

Royce Yudkoff

Russ Brownback

Russell Napier

Ryan Caldbeck

Ryan Selkis

Sabrina Cassagnol

Sahil Bloom

Sahm Adrangi

Saker Nusseibeh

Sandra Kartt

Sang Lee

Sarah Gefter

Saurin Mehta

Scott MacKillop

Scott Nammacher

Scott Twibell

Scott White

Scott Wieler

Scott Wood

Serge Krancenblum

Seth Ginns

Shirl Penney

Shundrawn Thomas

Simon Dixon

Simon Ree

Srinivas Thiruvadanthai

Stephen Bigalow

Stephen Castellano

Stephen Leeb

Stephen Paras

Steve Feinberg

Steve Goulden

Steve Hanke

Steve Schwarzman

Steven McClurg

Steven Schoenfeld

Stuart Veale

Sylvain Raynes

Symon He

Tadas Viskanta

Taso Arima

Ted Davis

Ted Seides

Thomas Braziel

Thomas Hutson-Wiley

Thomas Perfumo

Tim Draper

Tim Emanuels

Tina Hay

Tobias Carlisle

Todd Battaglia

Todd Silaika

Tom Jacobs

Tom Lott

Tom Price

Tom Trowbridge

Tony Chedraoui

Tony Deden

Tony Saliba

Travis Kling

Trevor Mottl

Troy Thornton

Tuur Demeester

Ty Popplewell

Urban Carmel

Valerie Houts

Victor Khosla

Viktor Shvets

Vince Sarullo

Vincent Catalano

Walter De Brouwer

Wei Xie

Wilbur Ross Jr.

Will Braman

Will Lansing

Will Strong

William Magnuson

Woody Bradford

Woody Brock

Xavier Rolet

Yan Liberman

Yoshi Nakamura

Zach Scheidt

Zoe Cruz



Examples of Public Equity


Massive Expansion After 2008 Financial Crisis

  • Private Equity assets grew 7x after the 2018 Financial Crisis (circa 2020)
  • Driven by desire for higher returns and lower volatility (thanks to infrequent asset valuations vs. public market real-time valuation)
  • Resulted in private equity firms being more competitive and paying higher prices
  • Debt levels have increased (higher EBITDA multiples) & loan covenants have decreased
  • Banks have limited loans (too risky with high ration).  Private debt markets have taken over