Paine & Partners is a private equity firm with expertise and relationships in specific industries. The firm seeks investments where addressing complexity, solving problems and devising creative solutions enhances value for sellers, management teams and our limited partners.

Paine & Partners is a value-driven private equity firm that utilizes extensive industry expertise to execute a differentiated and disciplined global strategy that is designed to consistently generate superior risk adjusted returns.

  • Our activities are designed to deliver superior long term returns on investment.
  • We source proprietary deals through long term relationships and extensive industry knowledge.
  • We listen to sellers and management to understand their goals and create custom solutions to enhance value for sellers, management teams and our limited partners.
  • Our success is based on partnering with the right people to manage our portfolio companies—we structure investments and incentive schemes to align our economic interests with management and employees of our portfolio companies.
  • We are lead investors and tailor capital structures to facilitate the execution of each company’s long term plan, including the significant investment of additional capital to enhance the growth of our companies.
  • We are dedicated to helping our management teams fundamentally improve businesses and grow underlying cash flows. We maintain a consistently high level of energy, focus and commitment to our management teams throughout our stewardship.
  • We leverage our industry and structural expertise and our knowledge of our portfolio companies to optimize exit alternatives for the benefit of investors, management and employees.
  • Our two most important assets are our people and our reputation. We are passionate, results orientated, creative, tenacious problem solvers. We operate with honesty, respect, high ethical standards and an unwavering commitment to excellence.
  • We prize our firm’s stability and promote people from within. Our culture promotes team work, high integrity and camaraderie and rewards initiative, creativity and hard work.

The firm (and its predecessors) was founded in 1997 and today has more than 25 professionals, including a team of industry veterans who serve as operating directors, managing $2.7 billion on behalf of leading global financial institutions and investors. The firm has invested $2.1 billion in 18 platform investment companies and made 65 follow-on acquisitions in over 20 countries, representing $6.5 billion in enterprise value. Paine & Partners’ proprietary investing process is at the heart of the firm’s ability to identify high-return investment opportunities. It’s a process that involves creativity, financial acumen, industry expertise, relationships and stamina for complexity. The firm’s industry focus is enhanced by the experience of our operating directors whose expertise includes financial services, industrial, agribusiness, and food and protein. Since inception, Paine & Partners (and its predecessors) has delivered top quartile performance on invested capital in its first two funds.