Year Founded: 1996
Key Contacts
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David LaytonCEO, Partner, Head of Private Equity
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Hans Ploos van AmstelPartner, CFO, Head of Group Finance
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Andreas KnechtPartner, COO, General Counsel
Investment Preferences
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Preferred IndustriesEnergy Services, Energy Equipment, Production and Refining, Healthcare Devices and Supplies, Healthcare services, Other Energy, Other Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology, Real Estate Services (B2C), Retail, Semiconductors, Software, Utilities, etc.
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Geographical PreferenceAmericas, Asia, US
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Preferred Deal TypesBuyout/LBO, Debt – General, PE Growth/Expansion
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Other Investment Preferences
- Prefers majority stake
- Seeks ESG investments
- Seeks Impact investments
- Will syndicate
Investments By Year
Funds Closed
Size: $15.00B
Dry Powder: $13.25B
Details: The fund targets goods & products, health & life, services and technology sectors
Size: $6.0B
Dry Powder: $1.68B
Details: It is a vintage buyout fund that invests in Europe, Asia and North America
Size: $431.4M
Dry Powder: $191.3M
Details: Fund’s infrastructure asset preferences are power, renewables, water & waste management
Investments By Industry
Investments By Region
Key Investments
In December 2022, Partners Group on behalf of its clients, agreed to acquire a majority stake in Sunsure Energy, a leading renewable energy and decarbonization solutions platform in India. Partners Group will invest up to USD400 million in the Platform. Under Partners Group’s ownership, Sunsure will be transformed into a next-generation IPP that will build and own utility-scale solar, wind, solar-wind hybrid, and battery storage renewable energy projects
In July 2022, Partners Group on behalf of its clients acquired a majority equity stake in Budderfly in the US and committed further growth capital totaling over USD500 million. Budderfly provides a holistic outsourced solution for energy management and infrastructure upgrades for underserved commercial and industrial businesses
In April 2022, Partners Group on behalf of its clients, agreed to invest in Climeworks, a designer, developer, and operator of carbon dioxide Direct Air Capture plants. Partners Group co-led a CHF600 million fundraising round for the Company, together with GIC. Other new investors in the round included Baillie Gifford, Carbon Removal Partners, Global Founders Capital, M&G, and Swiss Re
In February 2022, Partners Group on behalf of its client VSB Holding, acquired wind power portfolio of ADE and 3N Développement for an undisclosed amount. The potential of these nine wind energy projects is a total of 37 wind turbines with a nominal capacity of 143.5MW
In January 2022, Partners Group agreed on behalf of its clients, to acquire North Star a leading European provider of offshore infrastructure support services from Basalt Infrastructure Partners.North Star has strong infrastructure characteristics with an asset-heavy business model and predictable cash flows, supported by the mandatory usage of Emergency Response and Rescue Vessels (“ERRV”) and long-term contracts in the offshore wind sector
In June 2021, Partners Group agreed to acquire a controlling equity stake in Atlanta-based Dimension Renewable Energy, a distributed energy platform with a focus on the high-growth community solar and battery storage sector. The company has developed a deep pipeline of over 180 projects totaling over 800MW of solar capacity, and over 800MWh of battery storage across eight states
In March 2021, Partners Group on behalf of its client agreed to acquire District Heating Platform in the Baltics, from Finnish energy company, Fortum Corporation. The Company operates across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and has 74 generation assets, which generate heat capacity of 881MW and power capacity of 130MW across 387 kilometers of district heating networks
In February 2021, Partners group acquired Resilient Infrastructure Group, a water infrastructure platform focused on acquiring, developing, financing and operating distributed water-related facilities in the US and Canada
Other Details
Partners Group is a global private markets investment manager, serving around 800 institutional investors. The firm employs more than 1,800 professionals across 20 offices worldwide. Since inception, the company has invested over $195 billion in private equity, private real estate, private debt and private infrastructure on behalf of the clients
One of the open fund is Partners Group Direct Infrastructure 2020. It is a 2020 vintage infrastructure value added fund with a target size of $5 billion. The fund’s investment preference is core infrastructure sector and geographical preference is US
3i Group, Abengoa Solar, ABRY Partners, Accent Equity Partners, Accesso Partners, Acrisure, Advent International, AEA Investors, Allied Universal, AlpInvest Partners, Apax Partners, Ardian, Ares Management, Auburn Hill Capital, Avista Capital Partners, Bain Capital are some of the institutional investors who invest along with Partner Group