Buyout PE
Apax Partners
Apax Partners acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from London, United Kingdom. It states a focus on software & internet, healthcare & life sciences, financial services and consumer & retail.
Stated investment criteria
What Apax Partners says it buys
Read from Apax Partners’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.
| EBITDA it states | $25m to $100m1 |
| Transaction types | Recapitalisation, Growth1 |
| People listed on its team page | 142 |
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 Apax Partners to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.
Regulatory record
How Apax Partners is registered
Registered with the SEC as an investment adviser, and incorporated in the United Kingdom.
| Adviser status | Exempt reporting adviser |
| Regulatory assets under management | Not reported by an ERA |
| Private funds advised | 22 · $29bn gross |
| SEC adviser number | CRD 157111 |
| Companies House number | 01342446 |
| Incorporated | 1977-12-06 |
| Register status | Active |
| Officers on the register | 4 |
An exempt reporting adviser is not required to report regulatory assets under management, so the blank above means the question was not asked rather than that the answer is unknown. Where a figure exists it is the gross asset value of the private funds the firm advises, which is a different and usually larger measure.
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