Overview
Bain Capital Private Equity pioneered the value-added investment approach. We partner with management teams to help build and grow great companies. Our success is built on a highly rigorous approach utilizing deep industry/company insights and a significant investment in the resources and expertise to drive strategic and operational transformation at our companies.
Our global team, which now operates in eleven offices on four continents, has made more than 1,100 primary and add-on investments that have generated consistently strong returns. Collectively, more than 10 percent of our private equity funds’ commitments come from our professionals, far in excess of industry convention and reflective of both our strong principal investor mentality and confidence in our ability to generate industry-leading returns.
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History
Since our founding in 1984 in Boston, our firm has grown into one of the world’s leading private investment firms. Most of Bain Capital Private Equity’s Managing Directors and team members have worked as strategy consultants advising companies across a wide range of industries. From this heritage, our firm has built upon the experience and ability of our professionals to assess a company’s potential, develop powerful strategies, and implement transformational change in partnership with great management teams.
To date, Bain Capital Private Equity has raised twelve global private equity funds, five European funds and four Asian funds.
Bain Capital Private Equity
founded in Boston
Fund I raised $37M
Fund II raised $106M
Fund III raised $60M
Fund IV raised $300M
Fund V raised $500M
Fund VI raised $1.2B
Opening of
London office
Opening of
New York office
Fund VII raised $3.1B
First Europe Fund
(VII-E) raised
$500M
Opening of Munich office
Opening of Luxembourg office
Fund VIII raised $4.1B
Second Europe Fund
(VIII-E) raised $1B
Opening of
Shanghai office
Opening of
Tokyo office
Opening of
Hong Kong office
Fund IX raised $10B
First Asia Fund
raised $1B
Fund X raised $11.8B
Opening of
Mumbai office
Third Europe Fund
(E-III) raised
€3.5B
Second Asia Fund
(A-II) raised
$2B
Fund XI raised $6.5B
Fourth Europe Fund
(E-IV) raised €3.5B
Third Asia Fund (A-III) raised $3B
Opening of
Sydney office
Fund XII Raised $8B
Opening of Seoul office
Fifth Europe Fund (E-V) raised €4.35B
Fourth Asia Fund (A-IV) raised $4B
Investors
Throughout our history, Bain Capital Private Equity has built long-term relationships with our limited partners (LPs). They include many leading endowments, charitable foundations, public and corporate pensions, financial institutions, funds of funds, family offices and sovereign wealth funds. We have more than 900 Private Equity LPs, with the majority having invested with us for over a decade.
Bain Capital Private Equity By the Numbers
Investments
Primary and add-on over our firm’s history
in Revenue
Realized in 2023 from Bain Capital Private Equity portfolio companies
Employees
Working for our portfolio companies around the world