Details

Industries

Business Development,Finance,Financial Services,FinTech

Founded date

Jan 1, 1984

Number Of Employee

51 - 100

Operating Status

Active

Investor Type

PE

Hellman & Friedman, founded in 1984, is a private equity investment firm well respected for its distinctive investment philosophy and approach. Its offices are located in San Francisco, London, and New York.

Its objective is to invest long-term equity capital to support the strategic and financial objectives of outstanding management teams operating businesses with defensible positions in growing markets. Over lifetime, it has distinguished ourselves as a flexible source of capital and a value-added partner.

Its team consists of over 45 investment professionals, including 18 managing directors with an average tenure with the Firm of over ten years. This allows them to spend substantial time working with the companies in which they invest.

Limited partner investors in its funds include many of the largest U.S. and international corporate pension funds, U.S. state pension funds, university endowments and foundations.

Hellman & Friedman has acquired 4 organizations. Their most recent acquisition was Ellucian on Nov 9, 2009. They acquired Ellucian for $570M.

Date Company Name	Industry	Acquisition Type	Price
Nov 9, 2009 Ellucian	Education	lbo	$ 570M	Detail
Sep 25, 2017 Nets	Blockchain	acquisition	$ 5.10B	Detail
Jun 29, 2018 SimpliSafe	Consumer Electronics	acquisition	—	Detail
Mar 16, 2020 Checkmarx	Enterprise Software	lbo	$ 1.15B	Detail