Buyout PE
Bain Capital Private Equity
Bain Capital Private Equity acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Stated investment criteria
What Bain Capital Private Equity says it buys
Read from Bain Capital Private Equity’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.
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 Bain Capital Private Equity to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.
Regulatory record
How Bain Capital Private Equity 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 | $96bn |
| Employees | 919 |
| Private funds advised | 36 · $100bn gross |
| SEC adviser number | CRD 145653 |
Recorded transactions
Buying and selling
Deals in which Bain Capital Private Equity is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 5 recorded exits, most recently in 2022. 4 recorded acquisitions.
| Company | Side | Counterparty | Year | Consideration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milacron | Bought | Hillenbrand | 2025 | $287m |
| Blue Nile | Sold | Signet Jewelers | 2022 | $360m |
| Oac | Sold | Bright Horizons | 2022 | $320m |
| ExtraHop | Bought | — | 2021 | $900m |
| Showa Aircraft Industries | Bought | — | 2020 | $817m |
| Blue Nile | Bought | — | 2016 | $500m |
| Blackhawk Specialty Tools LLC | Sold | Frank's International | 2016 | $321m |
| FTE Automotive GmbH | Sold | Valeo | 2016 | $923m |
| ASIMCO | Sold | Brembo | 2016 | $88m |
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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