Partners Group Holding AG

Partners Group Holding AG, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, operates as a global private markets investment firm with offices spanning North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The firm deploys capital across various asset classes, including private equity, private real estate, private infrastructure, and private debt, employing strategies that encompass direct investments, secondaries, primaries, and fund of funds. Within private equity, Partners Group targets a broad spectrum of opportunities, ranging from seed and early-stage venture capital to mid and late-stage venture, emerging growth, mature companies, later-stage investments, buyouts, recapitalizations, industry consolidations, distressed situations, and special situations. Its direct private equity endeavors focus on sectors such as healthcare, consumer, media & telecommunications, education, information technology, industrials, infrastructure/energy & utilities, financial and business services, and real estate operating companies. For private real estate, the firm actively seeks out properties globally, with a particular emphasis on distressed assets in the United States, Europe, and Japan. It also engages in private real estate secondaries and primaries. In the realm of private infrastructure, investments are concentrated on energy-related assets, including midstream facilities, power generation, gas transportation, gas export infrastructure, and renewable energy projects like wind and solar. Under its private debt initiatives, Partners Group provides senior and mezzanine debt financing, in addition to participating in secondaries, primaries, and financing add-on acquisitions. This segment primarily targets middle-market companies across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. As a value-add investor, Partners Group aims for both majority and minority stakes in its investee companies. Equity investments typically fall between €500,000 ($685,010) and €100 million ($137 million), targeting companies with enterprise values ranging from €100 million ($137 million) to €2 billion ($2.74 billion). While maintaining a global investment perspective, the firm has a specific focus on countries like South Africa, China, India, the Philippines, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Brazil, and Chile. Beyond direct company investments, it also allocates capital to various funds, including venture capital, mezzanine, private equity, real estate, distressed, turnaround, and secondary funds.