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Warburg Pincus is a global private equity firm founded in 1966, focusing on growth and buyout investments across technology, healthcare, financial services, and other sectors.

The Merchant Banking Division (MBD) is the investing and lending division of Goldman Sachs, and is one of the largest asset managers in the world. The capital of MBD is a mixture of Goldman's balance sheet plus external capital it has raised through a series of funds. MBD invests globally across almost all asset classes, including senior debt, mezzanine debt, late stage venture capital and growth equity, control private equity, infrastructure and real estate. Note that in certain markets, including in Australia and China, the Merchant Banking Division is known as the Principal Investment Area (PIA). Prior to August 2019, when all of the investing divisions of Goldman Sachs merged, Goldman Sachs had a separate investing and lending division known as the Special Situations Group (SSG). SSG focused on investing the firm's balance sheet in a wide variety of asset classes. It had no external capital. SSG was formed during the Asian Financial Crisis, and originally specialised in distressed lending and acquisition of distressed assets. However, SSG quickly expanded into a broader special situations investor, focusing on areas where other forms of capital were not flowing efficiently, or where returns are out sized versus in-house perceptions of risk.

IFM Investors is one of Australia's leading investors, with a strong track record of investment across four key asset classes: debt investments, listed equities, infrastructure and private equity. With respect to private equity, IFM looks for minority or majority investments in Australian and New Zealand mid-market ($50m to $300m valuation) growth companies. IFM is sector agnostic, however particularly likes healthcare, consumer brands, technology and business services. IFM Investors is owned by 27 Australian superannuation funds.

TPG Capital is a global multi-strategy asset manager headquartered in California that invests in private equity, credit, real estate, and hedge fund strategies. TPG begun as a private equity investor before expanding into other strategies, and that remains the largest part of the business with more than $60bn under management, representing about 60% of total capital. TPG Sixth Street Partners (the Credit and Special Situations fund) manages $30bn of investments. TPG Real Estate manages $11bn in equity and debt investments. TPG Public Equity Partners manages $2bn of assets. hello ;) TPG was founded as the Texas Pacific Group in 1992 by David Bonderman, James Coulter and William Price.

Advent International is a global private equity firm focusing on buyouts and growth equity investments across five core sectors: business and financial services, healthcare, industrial, technology, and retail/consumer.

Oaktree Capital is one of the world's leading alternative investment managers. Oaktree has its original roots in high yielding and distressed credit/debt, although today invests across the spectrum from equity to debt. There are four primary strategies: credit, private equity, real assets, and listed equities. Credit comprises approximately 70% of the portfolio, with private equity and real assets comprising most of the remainder. Oaktree has a strong culture and investment philosophy focused on risk control, consistency, market inefficiency, specialisation, bottom-up analysis and disavowal of market timing.