TA Associates

TA Associates Management, L.P.
Company typePrivate
IndustryPrivate Equity
Founded1968; 56 years ago (1968)
FounderPeter Brooke
HeadquartersJohn Hancock Tower
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Key people
  • Brian J. Conway (chairman)
  • Ajit Nedungadi (CEO)[1]
ProductsGrowth capital, Leveraged buyouts, Recapitalizations
AUM$45.03 billion (2022)[2]
Number of employees
193 (2022)[2]
Websiteta.com

TA Associates Management, L.P. is an American private equity firm and was one of the early modern-era private equity firms in the United States.[3] The firm leads buyouts and minority recapitalizations of profitable growth companies. TA invests across five industry groups: technology, healthcare, consumer products, financial services and business services.[4]

TA Associates has raised $47.5 billion of capital since inception.[5] Since its founding, the firm has invested in more than 560 companies,[6] and been ranked among the 50 largest private equity firms (ranked 27 in 2022) globally.[7]

The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices in Menlo Park, Austin, London, Mumbai and Hong Kong. As of July 2022, TA had more than 110 investment professionals.[6][4]

  1. ^ Singh, Preeti; Cooper, Laura (11 January 2021). "TA Associates Preps Roughly $11 Billion Flagship Fund Pitch". The Wall Street Journal.
  2. ^ a b "TA Associates Form ADV" (PDF). Investment Adviser Public Disclosure. 29 August 2022. pp. 8–9. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  3. ^ A Short (Sometimes Profitable) History of Private Equity, Wall Street Journal, January 17, 2012.
  4. ^ a b Singh, Preeti (25 March 2022). "Specialist Managers Gain Traction With Fund Investors". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  5. ^ "About TA".
  6. ^ a b Christen, Mike (7 July 2022). "Private equity powerhouse TA Associates picks Austin for third US office". Austin Business Journal. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  7. ^ "PEI 300 2022 full ranking". Private Equity International. 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2022.