Welcome to the latest edition of Private Equity Spotlight, the Private Equity Spotlight monthly newsletter from Preqin providing insights into private May 2011 equity performance, investors and fundraising. Private Equity Spotlight combines information from our online products Performance Analyst, Investor Intelligence, Fund Manager Profi les, Funds in Market, Secondary Market Monitor and Deals Analyst. Does Size Really Matter? In this special edition of Private Equity Spotlight we identify and examine the top 10 largest direct private equity fi rms as determined by value of funds raised over the May 2011 past 10 years. Who these fi rms are, how they fi t into the industry and what makes Volume 7 - Issue 5 them who they are will be examined throughout this month’s newsletter. Page 3. FEATURED PUBLICATION: Preqin News Exclusives The 2011 Preqin Private Equity Secondaries Review Each month Preqin’s analysts speak to hundreds of investors, fund managers and intermediaries from around the world, uncovering vital, exclusive intelligence. This month’s News Exclusives features important updates on CPP Investment Board, The 2011 Preqin Morgan Stanley and more. Private Equity Secondaries Review Page 6. The Facts Fundraising - analysis of fundraising for the largest private equity fi rms. Page 9. More information available at: www.preqin.com/secreview Fund Managers - analysis of the top 10 fi rms’ dry powder and offi ce locations. Page 11. Deals - buyout deals and exits data for the top 10 fi rms. Page 13. Performance - taking a look at performance trends for the top 10 fund managers. Page 16. London: Equitable House, Investors - examining institutional appetite for the largest private equity houses. 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Alex Jones identifies the current largest private equity houses and how they fit into the industry as a whole. Fig. 1: Top 10 Largest Direct Private Equity Firms, by Funds Raised over Last 10 Years Firm Name Funds Raised over Last 10 Years ($bn) Goldman Sachs 54.8 TPG 52.3 Blackstone Group 50.0 Carlyle Group 48.6 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts 43.2 Oaktree Capital Management 40.6 Bain Capital 38.2 CVC Capital Partners 37.0 Apollo Global Management 32.4 Apax Partners* 28.7 * Does not include Apax France Source: Preqin In the years following the global fi nancial crisis, private equity as an aggregate $425.7bn - an average of $42.7bn each. This total an industry has experienced shifting institutional investor attitudes, accounts for approximately 18.7% of aggregate capital raised by proposed regulatory clamp downs and fundamental changes all private equity managers over the same period ($2.3tn). Given to the landscape caused by depressed fundraising conditions. this fact, it is unsurprising that a high proportion of all LPs have Despite this, private equity as an asset class is focused on the invested capital with one or more of these fi rms. Of the 3,519 long-term picture. While the last few years may have made short- investors currently tracked by Preqin, 18% (639) have invested term winners and losers of many fund managers across the private with at least one top 10 fi rm in the last 10 years, and of these equity spectrum, who are the long-term winners? In this month’s investors, 46% have invested with two or more such managers. Private Equity Spotlight, we have identifi ed the 10 largest direct This inordinate success in attracting institutional investors to their fund managers, based upon levels of private equity fundraising funds has allowed the largest private equity houses’ assets under over the last 10 years. management to swell over the years. How Big Is Big? Pre- and Post-Lehman Brothers In the face of the continuing evolution of the private equity industry Even the largest fi rms, however, are not immune to the impact as a whole and the turmoil experienced in recent years, competition of market turmoil. The years following the collapse of Lehman between fund managers has scarcely been fi ercer, yet one of Brothers, which were characterized by volatility, debt crisis and the few constants in the industry over the past decade has been investor uncertainty, also affected the top 10 fi rms. The pre-crisis the dominance of a select few fi rms. In terms of their success in ‘boom period’, which had seen increasingly large fund sizes and fundraising and the size of their assets, these largest fi rms have deals for many of the top 10 fi rms, was subsequently followed by a undoubtedly had a profound infl uence on the private equity industry; period that offered few viable exit opportunities for fund managers. however in a universe of over 5,500 fund managers, it is possible This resulted in increased pressure from LPs eager to see returns for to overstate their signifi cance. Consequently it is imperative to not the substantial commitments that they had made during the private only identify these fi rms, but also place them in the context of the equity boom. Consequently there has recently been a great deal wider industry and their peers. of focus placed upon whether the largest private equity fi rms have been able to provide strong returns to their investors in the short- Fig. 1 shows the top 10 direct private equity fund managers based term and even whether the largest managers offer a sustainable upon amount of capital raised for funds over the last decade. This model for success in the changing investment landscape. includes a range of private equity fund types; however does not include infrastructure or private real estate. The fi rms shown in Fig. For some time the scale of fund managers has been identifi ed as 1 have proven their ability in the fundraising market by garnering a signifi cant driver of returns; however it would be misleading to considerable assets over the past decade, with the group attracting provide undue focus on short-term performance given the longer- 3 Private Equity Spotlight, May 2011 © 2011 Preqin Ltd. www.preqin.com Feature The Top 10 Largest Private Equity Firms Download Data term horizons of most private equity investment strategies. Of hold, investigating how active they have been in terms of deals course, one of the principal methods of fund selection used by completed pre- and post-Lehman, how their offi ces are distributed LPs is a comparison of individual funds’ performance metrics, but around the world, LPs’ appetite for the largest fi rms, and fi nally can past performance alone explain the continuing capital raising how well these private equity houses have performed over the past power of the largest managers? In this month’s Spotlight we will decade. examine the top 10 fi rms in depth amongst their peers, breaking down their fundraising efforts and the levels of dry powder they 4 Private Equity Spotlight, May 2011 © 2011 Preqin Ltd. www.preqin.com 2011 Preqin Private Equity alternative assets. intelligent data. 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