List of Megafunds

What is the real official list of megafund Pe shops? Is it the top 50 on wikipedia?

I'm going to a BB that has no problem placing megafunds so I would like a list to see where I'm going to be at in 2 years.

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I'm not going to let this turn into a "rank the megafunds" thread, but a pretty good list can actually be found on Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_equity_firms

The top 20 by fund size contain all of the firms typically referred to as "megafunds", though you should note that fund size is certainly not a good indicator of prestige, quality, exit ops, pay, or quality of break room coffee.

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You'll be hard pressed to call American Securities or First Reserve a meag-fund IMO.

Here's a list of mega-funds, IMO. If you disagree, good for you.

In no particular order:

Apollo KKR Blackstone Warburg Carlyle GS Merchant Banking / Capital Partners / PIA, or whatever they decided to call themselves this season TPG Permira Apax Silver Lake Bain Capital

 
marcellus_wallaceis OTTP considered truly a megafund, my friends in banking always said they do not pay that much as other places.

It may not pay as much because it's a pension, after all, but it does megafund sized deals and is a well respected investor. Also, I hear lifestyle's decent.

Probably best not to get all that caught up in definitions of "megafunds". There's no hard and fast rule anyway.

 

Not sure how to define megafunds but if you're looking at firms that look at big deals, we often include a lot of the firms above and a few others to processes we run for larger companies (fluid definition of larger company). The others that we call are H&F,THL, CD&R, Leonard Green and occassionally MDP and increasingly, per the poster above, a couple of the european funds - BC and CVC

 

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