Platinum Equity

Platinum Equity is a global private equity and credit investment firm specializing in mergers, acquisitions, and operations through a proprietary, trademarked strategy it calls M&A&O®. The firm operates multiple fund vehicles, including its flagship global buyout funds (most recently Platinum Equity Capital Partners V at $10 billion) and the Platinum Equity Small Cap Fund, a $1.5 billion vehicle focused on the lower middle market, alongside a dedicated credit team targeting companies with $15 million to $75 million of EBITDA. The firm invests across a broad range of industries including manufacturing, distribution, transportation and logistics, equipment rental, metals services, media and entertainment, technology, and telecommunications, with North America as its primary geographic focus and additional activity across the United Kingdom, Western and Eastern Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Transaction types include leveraged and management buyouts, public-to-private transactions, corporate divestitures, complex carve-outs, secondary buyouts, and special situations or distressed credit investments, with majority control as the firm's standard ownership structure for its private equity strategy. Platinum applies an integrated, operations-intensive approach, deploying a large in-house team of M&A Operations professionals who engage from the earliest stages of due diligence through post-acquisition value creation and eventual exit. Founded in 1995 by Tom Gores, the firm is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, United States, with additional offices in Boston, Greenwich, New York, London, and Singapore.