Over the past 25 years, we have invested in more than 50 buyout and private equity transactions in the U.S. and Canada, spanning most of Advent’s core sectors including business and financial services, industrial, retail and consumer, and healthcare.

With a team of 23 deal professionals, we are currently investing our sixth buyout fund, GPE VI, capitalized at $10.4 bilion.

Our investments range from buyouts and recapitalizations to growth equity deals and cover a variety of scenarios including domestic and international expansion, buy-and-builds, consolidation plays and strategic repositioning.

Recent North American investments:
Charlotte Russe - Strategic repositioning of an apparel and accessories retailerFifth Third Processing Solutions – Innovative carve-out of bank’s merchant acquiring and debit/ATM processing businessAmscan – Driving domestic and international expansion at America’s party-goods market leaderBradco Supply – Extending leadership of roofing materials distributor through acquisition and regional expansionHudson Group – Buyout of North America’s premier travel retailer and merger with global player DufryBondDesk – Accelerating growth of leading fixed-income trading platform