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Ares, Oaktree, LGP are the bigger PE/AM firms out of LA.

Other include Spogli, Black Canyone, Brentwood, Aurora, TCW (not PE neccessarily and so on.

Apollo has a big office there.

I think that BStone has a REPE group there, and bain cap has a smaller office there.

 

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