Buyout PE
Searchlight Capital Partners
Searchlight Capital Partners acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from United States. It states a focus on business & professional services, consumer & retail, software & internet and industrials & manufacturing.
Stated investment criteria
What Searchlight Capital Partners says it buys
Read from Searchlight Capital 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.
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Regulatory record
How Searchlight Capital Partners 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 | $18bn |
| Employees | 132 |
| Private funds advised | 73 · $18bn gross |
| SEC adviser number | CRD 161958 |
Portfolio
Disclosed holdings
Companies Searchlight Capital Partners lists on its own website. No investment years are published.
| Company | Invested | Years held | Recorded transaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| 160over90 | — | — | — |
| Adams Outdoor Advertising | — | — | — |
| All Points Broadband | — | — | — |
| Ardent Hire Solutions | — | — | — |
| Arizona College Of Nursing | — | — | — |
| Arrive | — | — | — |
| Bezeq | — | — | — |
| Capital Skip Main | — | — | — |
| Care Advantage | — | — | — |
| Cengage Learning | — | — | — |
| Chord Music Partners | — | — | — |
| Content Firm Overview | — | — | — |
| EOLO | — | — | — |
| Electric Lightwave | — | — | — |
| Engineered Industrial Solutions | — | — | — |
| Euclid Transactional | — | — | — |
| Fidium | — | — | — |
| Firm Overview Investment | — | — | — |
| GCI Liberty | — | — | — |
| GetYourGuide | — | — | — |
| Global Eagle Entertainment | — | — | — |
| Global Risk Partners Ltd | — | — | — |
| Gresham House | — | — | — |
| Gymboree Group | — | — | — |
| Hemisphere Media | — | — | — |
| Honor Capital | — | — | — |
| Hunter Boot | — | — | — |
| Hyve | — | — | — |
| Impact People Team | — | — | — |
| Integrated Power Services | — | — | — |
| Investment Philosophy Impact | — | — | — |
| Kore Group Holdings | — | — | — |
| Latécoère | — | — | — |
| M Group | — | — | — |
| Main Content Firm | — | — | — |
| Mitel Networks | — | — | — |
| Mm Food Market | — | — | — |
| Netspend | — | — | — |
| Ocean Outdoor | — | — | — |
| Octave Group | — | — | — |
| Opus | — | — | — |
| Overview Investment Philosophy | — | — | — |
| People Team Culture | — | — | — |
| Philosophy Impact People | — | — | — |
| RSK Group | — | — | — |
| Rackspace Hosting | — | — | — |
| Roots | — | — | — |
| Searchlight Capital Skip | — | — | — |
| Shift4 Payments | — | — | — |
| Sightline Payments | — | — | — |
| Skip Main Content | — | — | — |
| Survitec | — | — | — |
| Team Culture Careers | — | — | — |
| TelevisaUnivision | — | — | — |
| United Site Services | — | — | — |
| Uniti Group And Windstream | — | — | — |
| Ziply Fiber | — | — | — |
Compiled from Searchlight Capital Partners’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 Searchlight Capital Partners is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 1 recorded exit, most recently in 2022. 2 recorded acquisitions.
| Company | Side | Counterparty | Year | Consideration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyve Group | Bought | — | 2023 | $807m |
| Ocean Outdoor | Sold | Atairos | 2022 | $580m |
| TouchTunes | Bought | Crystal Capital | 2015 | $57m |
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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