The Carlyle Group

The Carlyle Group Inc.
Company typePublic
IndustryPrivate equity
Founded1987; 37 years ago (1987)
Founders
Headquarters1001 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, D.C.
,
U.S.
Key people
Products
RevenueDecrease US$2.96 billion (2023)
Decrease US$−601 million (2023)
Decrease US$−608 million (2023)
AUMIncrease US$426 billion (2023)
Total assetsDecrease US$21.2 billion (2023)
Total equityDecrease US$5.78 billion (2023)
Number of employees
c. 2,200 (2023)
Websitecarlyle.com
Footnotes / references
[1]

The Carlyle Group Inc. is an American multinational company with operations in private equity, alternative asset management and financial services. As of 2023, the company had $426 billion of assets under management.[2]

Carlyle specializes in private equity, real assets, and private credit. It is one of the largest mega-funds in the world. In 2015, Carlyle was the world's largest private equity firm by capital raised over the previous five years, according to the PEI 300 index.[3] In the 2024 ranking however, it had slipped to sixth place.[4][5]

Founded in 1987 in Washington, D.C., the company has nearly 2,200 employees in 28 offices on four continents as of December 2023. On May 3, 2012, Carlyle completed a US$700 million initial public offering and began trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

  1. ^ "Carlyle Group 2023 Form 10-K". United States Securities and Exchange Commission. February 22, 2024.
  2. ^ "Annual Report 2023 | Carlyle". www.carlyle.com. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  3. ^ "PEI 300". Private Equity International. June 2015. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  4. ^ "PEI 300". Private Equity International. June 2023. Retrieved June 2, 2023.
  5. ^ Beer, Helen de (June 3, 2024). "Blackstone holds PEI 300 top spot". Private Equity International. Retrieved June 4, 2024.