Buyout PE
AEA Investors
AEA Investors acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from United States. It states a focus on consumer & retail, industrials & manufacturing and business & professional services.
Stated investment criteria
What AEA Investors says it buys
Read from AEA Investors’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.
| Transaction types | Growth1 |
| Offices | London, Shanghai, Munich, New York, San Francisco3 |
| People listed on its team page | 1782 |
A stated mandate is a firm’s description of itself and was true of the page on the day it was read; firms widen and narrow what they will look at without updating the site. The team figure counts the people the firm shows on one team page, so it is a floor rather than a headcount: firms that split their team across tabs or load it in pages will read low. Nothing here is a commitment by AEA Investors to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.
Regulatory record
How AEA Investors is registered
From this firm's Form ADV, the annual filing every registered and exempt investment adviser makes to the SEC.
| Adviser status | SEC registered |
| Regulatory assets under management | $15bn |
| Employees | 157 |
| Private funds advised | 31 · $15bn gross |
| SEC adviser number | CRD 124560 |
Portfolio
Disclosed holdings
Companies AEA Investors lists on its own website. No investment years are published.
| Company | Invested | Years held | Recorded transaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-800 Contacts Inc. | — | — | — |
| 24 Hour Fitness | — | — | — |
| 50 Floor Inc. | — | — | — |
| 829 Studios | — | — | — |
| AS Software | — | — | — |
| Acosta Inc. | — | — | — |
| Allied Power Group | — | — | — |
| AmeriVet Partners | — | — | — |
| American Dental Companies | — | — | — |
| American Expediting | — | — | — |
| American Oncology Network | — | — | — |
| Aramsco Holdings | — | — | — |
Compiled from AEA Investors’s published portfolio page. Where a recorded transaction is shown, that company was the target of a reported deal and has most likely already been realised. Nothing here is represented as being for sale.
Recorded transactions
Buying and selling
Deals in which AEA Investors is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 3 recorded exits, most recently in 2024. 1 recorded acquisition.
| Company | Side | Counterparty | Year | Consideration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melissa & Doug | Sold | Spin Master | 2024 | $950m |
| Dayton Parts | Sold | Dorman | 2021 | $338m |
| Balboa Water Group | Sold | Helios Technologies | 2020 | $219m |
| Veseris | Bought | Univar | 2019 | $195m |
Compiled from a transaction archive of 10,204 recorded deals. Most private transactions are never disclosed, so this is a sample of a firm’s activity rather than a complete record of it.
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