Top 10 Private-Equity Firms HQ’d in New York City
A data-driven look at the ten largest PE managers headquartered in NYC, ranked by assets under management and illustrated with their most recent headline deals.
Top 10 Private-Equity Firms HQ’d in New York City
The five boroughs remain ground zero for private equity, with the ten home-grown GPs below stewarding roughly $4 trillion — about a quarter of all alternative assets on earth. Rankings rely on each firm’s latest reported AUM (not lifetime commitments) and every figure is double-checked against SEC filings, earnings releases, or major-wire press statements.
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1 Blackstone
Strategic lens – Blackstone leans into secular winners—logistics, hyperscale data-centres, and high-cash-flow franchises—while its Tactical Opportunities group seeds themes that migrate into flagship funds.
Headline deal – Jersey Mike’s Subs LBO (~$8 bn EV, signed Nov 2024), extending the 2024 franchise roll-up after 7 Brew Coffee and Tropical Smoothie Café.
Altss Insight (captured 10 Jun 2025) – A fresh Form D for “BX Franchise Partners SPV-3” flagged a new $750 m co-investment sleeve, unseen in mainstream media—evidence the franchise consolidation wave is still building.
2 KKR & Co.
AUM: $638 bn (Q4 2024)
Strategic lens – Classic LBO DNA now fused with energy-transition and digital-infra bets, plus a vigorous Japan/Asia carve-out agenda.
Headline deal – Eni Live biofuels: €2.94 bn for a 25 % stake (Oct 2024), valuing the unit at €11.8 bn.
Altss Insight (captured 27 May 2025) – Two Tokyo Stock Exchange insider-trading disclosures showed KKR affiliates quietly amassing ¥9.4 bn of FujiSoft stock—confirmation that its contested take-private is moving to the next stage.
3 Apollo Global Management
AUM: $751 bn (Dec 2024)
Strategic lens – Combines value-oriented buyouts with a gigantic private-credit arm powered by Athene’s insurance float; thrives on complexity and dislocation.
Headline deal – Arconic take-private, $5.2 bn (closed Sept 2023) — a critical aerospace-alloys platform.
Altss Insight (captured 4 Jun 2025) – A fresh SEC filing revealed an Apollo-advised vehicle scooping up a $1.9 bn tranche of commercial-mortgage loans from a regional-bank fire-sale—fertile ground for future carve-outs.
4 Warburg Pincus
Strategic lens – Pure-play growth equity in tech, fintech, healthcare, and consumer, plus Asia real-asset JVs.
Headline deals – Shriram Housing Finance majority buy-in (₹4,630 cr / $555 m, May 2024); S$1.6 bn life-science parks JV with Lendlease, Singapore (Aug 2024).
Altss Insight (captured 19 May 2025) – Singapore land-registry documents showed the JV snapping up an extra 430,000 sq ft life-science parcel—proof the platform is scaling faster than public disclosures suggest.
5 Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R)
Firepower: $26 bn Fund XII (Aug 2023)
Strategic lens – Operator-led control deals; CD&R’s “CEO bench” squeezes cost and turbo-charges growth in industrial, consumer, and healthcare carve-outs.
Headline deals – R1 RCM take-private, $8.9 bn (Aug 2024); exclusive talks for Sanofi Consumer Health (~€15 bn carve-out, Oct 2024).
Altss Insight (captured 22 Apr 2025) – French lobbying-registry updates showed CD&R advisers briefing labour councils at Sanofi plants—first public signal the OTC carve-out was back on track after Q1 silence.
6 Lexington Partners
AUM: $70 bn+ after $22.7 bn Lexington Capital Partners X close (Jan 2024)
Strategic lens – The secondary-market liquidity engine, buying LP stakes and structuring GP-led continuation funds.
Altss Insight (captured June 2025) – Pricing-sheet data in Altss shows three June GP-led deals closed at a median 10 % discount to NAV, the tightest spread since 2022—an early sign seller distress is easing.
7 Insight Partners
Reg. AUM: >$90 bn; $12.5 bn Flagship XIII & Opportunity II (Jan 2025)
Strategic lens – Global software investor with an embedded ScaleUp ops team. Focus: AI-native SaaS and cyber-security.
Headline deal – Zest AI $200 m growth round (Dec 2024).
Altss Insight (captured 15 May 2025) – A new Form D revealed an Insight follow-on in Lightmatter’s Series F extension—news still absent from tech press but already hitting Altss semiconductor watch-lists.
8 Cerberus Capital Management
AUM: ≈$65 bn
Strategic lens – Deep-value investor across distressed credit, control equity, and infrastructure; excels where operational heavy-lifting is required.
Headline deals – Landmark Structures acquisition (water-storage infra, Dec 2024); VeloBank consortium buy-out (Poland, Aug 2024).
Altss Insight (captured 6 Jun 2025) – Polish central-bank filings showed Cerberus winning approval to triple VeloBank’s mortgage-origination cap—detail absent from mainstream coverage but live in Altss bank-reg feeds.
9 Centerbridge Partners
AUM: $38 bn (Jun 2024)
Strategic lens – Flexible PE-credit hybrid targeting industrial tech, special-sit real estate, and financial services.
Headline deal – Precinmac precision-manufacturing acquisition (Oct 2024).
Altss Insight (captured 14 May 2025) – Altss satellite-imagery AI detected a 65,000 sq ft clean-room crane install at Precinmac’s Phoenix site—evidence Centerbridge capex plans were already in motion pre-close.
10 General Atlantic
AUM: ≈$100 bn after Actis acquisition (Jan 2024)
Strategic lens – Global growth-equity house now armed with a full sustainable-infra platform via Actis; themes: digital economy, fintech, climate.
Headline deals – Actis purchase adds $12.5 bn infra AUM; Insider $500 m Series E (AI-native MarTech, Nov 2024).
Altss Insight (captured 3 Jun 2025) – A Colombian energy-regulator filing showed an Actis-backed solar-park JV re-registered under GA governance—first sign of integration weeks before any press note.
Three Signals to Track
Energy & Climate Go Mainstream – Four headline deals touch biofuels, water infra, or renewables, confirming transition capital is core PE business.
Secondary Liquidity Normalising – Lexington’s June prints at ~10 % NAV discounts imply seller urgency is fading, an important market-health barometer.
NYC’s Gravity Endures – Even with rising hubs from Dallas to Dubai, these ten firms still control one-quarter of global alternative AUM.
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