PEI 300 Inside the ranking of 's biggest fundraisers Welcome to this year's PEI 300

The PEI 300 - 2021

06:19 The changing face of the PEI 300... in 30 seconds

Click the button below to see how the ranking has evolved since it was launched in 2007, when $32bn earned top spot

Headquartered in North America Europe

The Carlyle Group 32,500

KKR 31,000

Goldman Sachs 31,000

Blackstone 28,360

TPG 23,500

Apax Partners 18,850

Bain Capital 17,300

CVC Capital Partners 15,650 Apollo Global Mgt 13,900 2007 Warburg Pincus 13,300

0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000 70,000 80,000 90,000 100,000 Capital raised over preceding five years ($m)

Source: Private Equity International 10 biggest risers

The firms that made the biggest leap in this year's PEI 300 Headquartered in North America Europe Asia-Pacific

Arcline (Rank: 128) Up 157 places - Capital raised: $4,250m

Värde Partners (135) Up 119 places - Capital raised: $3,980m

Charlesbank Capital Partners (60) Up 108 places - Capital raised: $8,600m

Wind Point Partners (192) Up 106 places - Capital raised: $2,579m

5Y Capital (171) Up 99 places - Capital raised: $2,872m

Coatue Management (121) Up 91 places - Capital raised: $4,430m

General Catalyst Partners (116) Up 86 places - Capital raised: $4,520m

Vitruvian Partners (79) Up 84 places - Capital raised: $7,263m

Vistria Group (112) Up 79 places - Capital raised: $4,664m Hover over the pointer to discover more about the firms making their mark on this Novacap (150) Up 78 places - Capital raised: $3,357m year's PEI 300

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 Rise in ranking

Source: Private Equity International 10 biggest fallers

The firms that dropped the furthest over the last 12 months

Headquartered in North America Europe Asia-Pacific

GCM Grosvenor (Rank: 216) Down -125 places - Capital raised: $2,283m

Crestview Partners (227) Down -123 places - Capital raised $2,150m

Bessemer Venture Partners (255) Down -123 places - Capital raised: $1,900m

Trustbridge Partners (296) Down -112 places - capital raised: $1,580m

Tailwind Capital Partners (266) Down -110 places - capital raised: $1,800m

ICONIQ Capital (274) Down -108 places - capital raised: $1,751m

Lovell Minnick Partners (268) Down -89 places - capital raised: $1,782m

Cortec Group (230) Down -88 places - capital raised: $2,100m

Hermes GPE (215) Down -87 places - capital raised: $2,311m

Flexpoint Ford (239) Down -86 places - capital raised: $2,000m

-120 -100 -80 -60 -40 -20 0 Fall in ranking

Source: Private Equity International The PEI 300 by region

How the ranking breaks down by firm HQ and capital raised Capital raised ($bn)

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Europe 50 firms 800

North America Asia-Pacific 600 206 firms 43 firms 400 197

MENA 0 firms 200

0 1,632 423

North America Europe Latin America 1 firm Asia-Pacific

Rest of the world: $3bn

Source: Private Equity International Fundraising by region

Despite just 11 of the top 50 Average capital raised firms being headquartered on the continent, Europe-based firms had the highest average five-year fundraising total across the whole ranking $7,918m North America $8,470m Europe

$7,516m PEI 300

$4,572m Asia-Pacific

Source: Private Equity International Asia's biggest firms

This year there are nine Asia-Pacific-headquartered firms in the top 100, up from five in 2010. Asia-Pacific-based funds in 2020 had a combined five-year fundraising total of $197bn

China Merchants Capital () (Rank: 27) 19,106

Hillhouse Capital Group () (35) 16,079

MBK Partners () (42) 13,476

Baring Private Equity Asia (Hong Kong) (54) 10,315

CPE () (59) 8,736

China Everbright Limited (Hong Kong) (75) 7,544

Primavera Capital Group (Beijing) (78) 7,320

PAG (Hong Kong) (90) 6,694

Affinity Equity Partners (Hong Kong) (91) 6,374

CITIC Capital (Hong Kong) (101) 5,956

0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000 14,000 16,000 18,000 20,000 Capital raised over last five years ($m)

Source: Private Equity International Europe's biggest firms

There are 50 Europe-headquartered firms in the PEI 300 this year, the same as in the 2020 list and down from 56 in 2019 and 64 in 2010

CVC Capital Partners (London) (Rank: 3) 60,426

EQT (Stockholm) (6) 44,230

Cinven (London) (17) 27,946

Permira Advisers (London) (20) 23,040

Apax Partners (London) (21) 21,594

Ardian (Paris) (25) 20,111

Partners Group (Zug) (26) 19,268

Hg (London) (31) 17,792

PAI Partners (Paris) (41) 13,686

Bridgepoint (London) (43) 13,139

0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000 Capital raised over last five years ($m)

Source: Private Equity International New entries and re-entries

There are 47 new entrants into this year’s PEI 300, with a collective five-year fundraising total of $127bn

Headquartered in North America Europe Asia-Pacific

China Merchants Capital (Rank: 27) 19,106

PSG (104) 5,665

Wellington Management Company (134) 3,993

ARCH Venture Partners (140) 3,718

Peak Rock Capital (148) 3,400

Spectrum Equity (154) 3,154

JMI Equity (170) 2,900

3i Group (172) 2,859

Brightstar Capital Partners (175) 2,820 Hover over the pointer to discover more about the Oak HC/FT (177) 2,800 firms making their mark on this year's PEI 300 0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000 14,000 16,000 18,000 20,000 Capital raised over last five years ($m)

Source: Private Equity International The PEI 300 is compiled from data collected by PEI Media's research and analytics department. For more information, contact Daniel Humphrey Rodriguez Head of Fund Manager Research [email protected]

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