A register, not a ranking
UK Private Equity Register
21 private equity managers on the Companies House register, each matched to the SEC filings that disclose what it runs. 6 of them are limited liability partnerships, so the UK record shows something the American one cannot: the members of the partnership itself, and the person or company in control above it.
Why this one is not ranked
The American page ranks by regulatory assets under management because Item 5.F of Form ADV requires that figure. Britain has no equivalent. Companies House publishes identity, officers, control and accounts, but no assets under management and no fund sizes. The FCA register publishes permissions rather than assets. So there is no filed number to rank British managers by, and this page is ordered alphabetically instead of inventing one.
The regulatory assets shown against each firm are real, but they belong to that firm's SEC registered entity only, which for a British house is often a subsidiary rather than the business. They are shown because they are filed, and labelled because they are partial. Nothing on this page should be read as the size of the firm.
The register
Alphabetical. Each firm links to its Companies House record, which is the authority for the UK half of everything here.
- 3i CorporationPLC, 19454 directors, 15 funds$2.70bn
- 7RidgeLTD, 20181 directors, 4 funds$1.23bn
- Abrdn InvestmentsLTD, 19875 directors, 5 funds$206.5bn
- Anthemis Capital ManagersLTD, 20153 directors, 5 funds$971m
- Basalt Infrastructure PartnersLLP, 20117 members, 21 funds$9.62bn
- Bregal InvestmentsLLP, 20062 members, 35 funds$27.5bn
- BridgepointLTD, 19961 directors, 13 funds$24.2bn
- Coller CapitalLTD, 19956 directors, 5 funds$36.7bn
- Dws Alternatives GlobalLTD, 20057 directors, 7 funds$24.5bn
- Fitzwalter Capital (Us)LTD, 20202 directors, 4 funds$3.19bn
- Gam LondonLTD, 19663 directors, 2 funds$9.42bn
- Harwood CapitalLLP, 20034 members, 3 funds$114m
- Hermes Investment ManagementLTD, 19904 directors, 11 funds$33.7bn
- Hollyport CapitalLLP, 200610 members, 4 funds$12.2bn
- Impax Asset ManagementLTD, 19984 directors, 6 funds$27.8bn
- Octopus Energy GenerationLTD, 20202 directors, 3 funds$11.8bn
- Patria Private Equity (Europe)LTD, 19984 directors, 18 funds$11.3bn
- Pearl Diver CapitalLLP, 20082 members, 13 funds$2.82bn
- Promethean InvestmentsLLP, 20053 members, 9 funds$473m
- SoftBank Investment AdvisersLTD, 20157 directors, 1 fund$53.5bn
- Stanhope CapitalLTD, 20062 directors, 2 funds$15.7bn
The firms this register cannot reach
This is the important caveat, so it is on the page rather than in a footnote. The register is seeded from Form ADV, which means it can only see a British manager that sells to American investors through an SEC registered adviser. Most of the best known UK houses do not. They exist on the Companies House register, and their UK records are shown here, but there is no filed figure that would let them be listed alongside the firms above.
- CVCLTD, 8 on the registerIts only SEC registration reporting assets is Cvc Credit Partners, Llc, based in United States, with $61.6bn of regulatory assets. That is a subsidiary rather than the firm, so placing it on that figure would understate it substantially.
- PermiraLLP, 36 on the registerIts only SEC registration reporting assets is Permira Credit Llc, based in United States, with $1.3bn of regulatory assets. That is a subsidiary rather than the firm, so placing it on that figure would understate it substantially.
- Apax PartnersLLP, 38 on the registerIts only SEC registration reporting assets is Apax Partners Us, Llc, based in United States, with $0.8bn of regulatory assets. That is a subsidiary rather than the firm, so placing it on that figure would understate it substantially.
- CinvenLTD, 7 on the registerIt does file from the United Kingdom, as Cinven Limited with $42.7bn of regulatory assets, but the SEC's bulk Schedule D archive carries no private fund detail for it, so its strategy cannot be classified on the same basis as the rest of the register.
- HgLTD, 3 on the registerNo SEC registered adviser of this name reports any regulatory assets, so Form ADV holds no size for it at all.
- Intermediate Capital GroupPLC, 12 on the registerNo SEC registered adviser of this name reports any regulatory assets, so Form ADV holds no size for it at all.
- Inflexion Private EquityLLP, 36 on the registerNo SEC registered adviser of this name reports any regulatory assets, so Form ADV holds no size for it at all.
- ExponentLLP, 15 on the registerNo SEC registered adviser of this name reports any regulatory assets, so Form ADV holds no size for it at all.
- Vitruvian PartnersLTD, 3 on the registerNo SEC registered adviser of this name reports any regulatory assets, so Form ADV holds no size for it at all.
- Charterhouse Capital PartnersLLP, 40 on the registerNo SEC registered adviser of this name reports any regulatory assets, so Form ADV holds no size for it at all.
- LivingbridgeLLP, 13 on the registerNo SEC registered adviser of this name reports any regulatory assets, so Form ADV holds no size for it at all.
- Bridgepoint AdvisersLTD, 8 on the registerNo SEC registered adviser of this name reports any regulatory assets, so Form ADV holds no size for it at all.
Where this comes from
UK identity, legal form, incorporation date, registered office, officers, control and accounts: the Companies House public register, read through its API. Fund counts, fund types and regulatory assets: Form ADV, the same source as the American page. Firms are matched between the two by name, which is why every entry shows the company number it was matched to: the identification is offered to be checked, not taken on trust.