Limited liability company | |
Industry | Private Equity |
Founded | 1966 |
Founder |
Eric Warburg Lionel Pincus |
Headquarters |
450 Lexington Avenue New York City, New York, United States |
Key people
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Charles R. Kaye Joseph P. Landy Co-CEOs Timothy F. Geithner President |
Products | Investments, private equity funds |
Total assets | $40 billion |
Website | warburgpincus |
Warburg Pincus, LLC is an American private equity firm with offices in the United States, Europe, Brazil, China and India. It has been a private equity investor since 1966.The firm currently has approximately $40 billion in assets under management and invests in a range of sectors including retail, industrial manufacturing, energy, financial services, health care, technology, media, and real estate. Warburg Pincus is a growth investor. Warburg Pincus has raised 15 private equity funds which have invested $58 billion in over 760 companies in 40 countries.
Warburg Pincus invests in the information and communication technology sectors, including investments in Avaya, Bharti Tele-Ventures, Harbour Networks, NeuStar, PayScale, and Telcordia.
In 1939 Eric Warburg of the Warburg banking family founded a company under the name E.M. Warburg & Co. Its first address was 52 William Street, New York, the Kuhn Loeb building. Throughout the early post-war period, the firm was a small office of 20 employees. In 1966, E.M. Warburg merged with Lionel I. Pincus & Co, forming a new company that eventually became known as E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co. In 1965, when Eric Warburg retired to Germany, control was handed to Lionel Pincus, a partner in the Ladenburg Thalmann investment bank, and the working language of the office switched from German to English. Lionel ran the company from 1966 to 2002, and died in 2009.