Carlyle Group

Carlyle Group is private equity firm Headquartered in Washington, US, Carlyle Group has offices worldwide and funds spanning four investment areas; buyout and growth capital, real assets, solutions as well as leveraged finance, in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. Carlyle’s main areas of focus are in the aerospace, defence, commodities, financial services, transportation, consumer, retail, energy and power, infrastructure, healthcare, industrial, technology, media and telecommunications industries, but the firm is always open to other opportunities. The firm originates, structures and acts as lead equity investor in management-led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and build-ups, and growth capital financing. The firm's real estate arm targets single asset transactions in the office, residential, senior living, hotel, and retail sectors. It focuses on opportunistic and value added investments in North America, Europe and Asia. Carlyle's Global Infrastructure Buyout and Global Energy & Power teams invest in both public and private infrastructure and energy/power projects and businesses primarily in the US and Canada. In January 2011, Carlyle purchased, along with company management, the Dutch private equity firm AlpInvest. This acquisition diversifies Carlyle's activities, to put greater stress on fund of funds investing. AlpInvest will continue to operate and invest independently, but with both company representatives on the board. Carlyle Group expanded its asset management operations with a 55% stake in Vermillion Asset Management in October 2012. Vermillion is a commodities investment manager, and with the new acquisition Carlyle Commodity Management expands its reach within the futures and commodities trading markets.