Clayton Dubilier & Rice LLC

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC (CD&R) is a private equity firm focused exclusively on control buyouts, corporate carve-outs, and growth equity investments in established companies across North America and Europe. The firm concentrates on five core sectors — consumer and retail services, financial services, healthcare, industrials and business services, and technology — managing approximately $30 billion to $82 billion in assets across approximately 90 to 150 portfolio companies and exits since inception. Transaction types include leveraged buyouts, corporate divestitures, secondary buyouts, and partnerships with corporations, founders, families, or other existing shareholders, with the firm investing through a single fund structure to maintain strong alignment between its team and limited partner investors. CD&R applies a deeply operational, hands-on value-creation approach, integrating senior operating partners and industry advisors who work directly alongside management teams to drive productivity improvements, strategic initiatives, and long-term sustainable growth; the firm estimates the substantial majority of its portfolio gains stem from operational initiatives rather than financial engineering. The firm is 100 percent partner-owned, reinforcing alignment with its investor base. Founded in 1976 as Clayton & Dubilier by Martin H. Dubilier, Eugene Clayton, and Bill Welsh (Joseph L. Rice III joined in 1978, with the firm adopting its current name in 1992), the firm is headquartered in New York, New York, United States, with an additional office in London, United Kingdom.