Someone sent me this list of local private equity firms operating in the Chicagoland area and I thought I’d share it with you. Private equity firms in Chicago vary in their investment industries, region, size and many other factors but there is a common goal among all private equity firms: to take a company with potential for growth and provide the resources necessary to realize that potential. Private equity firms do this by injecting capital, prescribing a new strategy, restructuring the company or adding new talent to the existing management team. The success of a private equity firm depends on its ability to realize the growth potential of its investments and thereby satisfying investors with profitable returns from the investment.
Screening Criteria
1) Industry Classifications: Diversified Financials (Primary)
2) Business Description: Keyword: “private equity”
3) Company Status: Operating OR Operating Subsidiary OR Operating and Operating Subs
4) Geographic Locations: Chicago Area (Primary)
Access Value Investors LLC
Acuity Capital Partners, LLC
Adams LaSalle Realty
Adams Street Partners, LLC
Advanced Equities Financial Corp.
Advocate Asset Management, LLC
Aldine Capital Partners, Inc.
Alpha Capital Partners, Ltd.
Anderson Pacific Corporation
Arbor Private Investment Company
Ark Capital Management
Ascent Equity Capital, Inc.
Aspire Capital Partners, LLC
Baird Private Equity Group
Bank One Capital Markets, Inc.
Becker, Burke Associates Incorporated
Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company
Benford Capital Partners, LLC
Blue River Partners Management, L.L.C.
Bolder Capital, LLC
Brumlik Howton Partners, LLC
Burke America
Caisson Capital Partners
Calder Capital Partners
Caldera Capital Partners, LLC
Cardinal Growth, L.P.
Chicago Growth Partners
Chicago Venture Partners, L.P.
CHS Capital
CIVC Partners, L.P.
CM Acquisitions LLC
Cognitive Capital Partners
Continental Investors LLC
Cook Associates, Inc.
Cornerstone Capital Holdings, LLC
Cressey & Company LP
Crossroads Capital Partners LLC
Dixon Midland Company LLC
DN Partners LLC, Investment Arm
Draupnir LLC
Dunrath Capital, Inc.
Ellipse Capital LLC
Environmental & Information Technology Private Equity Fund
Equity Group Investments, LLC
Equity International
Expedition Capital Partners LLC
First Analysis Corporation
First Continental Trading, Asset Management
Flexpoint Ford, LLC
Foundation Growth Investments LLC
Frontenac Company
Gaslight Equity Group, LLC
GE Antares Capital
Geneva Glen Capital, LLC
Glencoe Food Group
Goense & Company LLC
Golub Capital BDC, Inc. (NasdaqGS:GBDC)
Granite Creek Partners, LLC
Granite Hall Partners, Inc.
GrowthPath Capital, LLC
Gryffindor Capital Partners, L.L.C.
GTCR Golder Rauner, LLC
Guggenheim Aviation Partners
Healthstrat Capital Advisors, LLC, Investment Arm
High Street Capital
Hispania Capital Partners, LLC
Judges’ Retirement System of Illinois
Lake Capital
Lake Pacific Partners, LLC
LaSalle Capital Group, L.P.
Lincoln Park Capital
Linden LLC
Lodging Capital Partners, LLC
Longreach Capital, LLC
Loyola University of Chicago Endowment
LSC Healthcare Partners
Lurie Investment Fund, LLC
Madison Capital Partners
Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC
Madison Equity Associates, LLC
Maranon Capital, L.P.
Marksman Venture Partners, LLC
Marquette Associates, Inc.
Matthew Pritzker Company
McNally Capital, LLC
Merit Capital Partners
Mesirow Financial Private Equity
MFC Capital Funding, Inc.
Midwest Mezzanine Funds
Monroe Capital LLC
Mosaix Ventures
Muller & Monroe Asset Management, LLC
Navigant Consulting Inc., Certain Corporate Finance Assets
New Trier Partners, LLC
Nicolet Capital Investors, LLC
North American Funds LLC
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Endowment Fund
Omni-Reed Group Inc.
Onyx Capital Ventures, L.L.C.
Oxford Capital Group, LLC
P.A.G. Capital Partners, LLC
Pekin Singer Strauss Asset Management, Inc.
Pennington Partners & Co.
Pfingsten Partners, L.L.C.
Prairie Capital, L.P.
Prism Capital Corporation
Private Equity Growth Advisors, LLC
Prospect Partners, LLC
Rail World, Inc.
RCP Advisors, LLC
Richland, Gordon & Company
Rock Gate Partners, LLC
Roseworth Capital LLC
Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center Endowment
Sapphire Industrial Group, LLC
SE Capital, LLC
Shore Capital Partners, LLC
SilkRoad Equity LLC
SRS Investments, LLC
Summit Line Capital, LLC
Svoboda Capital Partners LLC
Synergy Financial Partners, LLC
Synetro Group, L.L.C.
Talon Asset Management, LLC
The Banc Funds Company, L.L.C.
The Edgewater Funds
The Endeavor Companies, LLC
The Heico Companies LLC
The Pritzker Group
Thoma Bravo, LLC
Thoma Cressey Bravo
Thomas Blaige & Company LLC
Thurston Group, LLC
Titan Equity Partners, LLC
TMB Industries
Transaction Risk Solutions, Inc.
Transwestern Investment Company, L.L.C.
Twin Bridge Capital Partners
UIB Capital Inc
University of Chicago Endowment
Valor Equity Partners L.P.
Victory Park Capital Advisors, LLC
Walton Street Capital, L.L.C.
Water Street Healthcare Partners
Water Tower Capital, Investment Arm
Waterton Associates L.L.C.
Waud Capital Partners, L.L.C.
West Family Investments
WexTrust Capital, LLC
White Cap Private Equity Management, LLC
William Blair & Company, L.L.C.
William Harris Investors, Inc.
Willis Stein & Partners, L.L.C.
Wind Point Partners
Winona Capital Management, LLC
WMG Capital
WP Global Partners, Inc.
Baird Capital Partners
Baird Venture Partners
Banc of America Capital Access Funds
CC Industries, Inc.
CIT Rail Resources
Citadel Limited Partnership
Concentric Equity Partners, L.P.
Credit Suisse Securities LLC – Holt
Glencoe Capital, LLC
Hewitt EnnisKnupp
LaSalle Bank National Association, Asset Management Arm
Madison Capital Funding LLC
Northern Trust Global Investments
Oxford Capital Group, LLC, Private Equity
PPM America Capital Partners, LLC
Prudential Capital Group, L.P.
Stout Risius Ross Advisors, LLC
Valor Home Health Care, LLC
WHI Capital Partners
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