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private-equity company

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noun

  1. an organization that uses private equity to gain control of and manage companies

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The sector doesn’t include financial-services firms such as private-equity company Blackstone and investment banks like Goldman Sachs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

The Swiss private-equity company said it anticipates inflows in evergreen funds, which offer wealthy investors access to assets such as private equity and private credit, to exceed outflows in the first half of this year.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 2026

Another $30 billion would be provided by private-equity company Redbird, which was also part of the Paramount deal, as well as two Middle Eastern sovereign-wealth funds.

From Barron's Dec. 22, 2025

Neither Jared Kushner, who now runs a private-equity company, nor Charles Kushner, who serves as chairman of the Kushner real estate company, responded to requests for comment.

From Washington Post Dec. 7, 2022

The $1.5 billion figure to which Mr. Trump referred on Thursday appears to be the amount of money that a Shanghai-based private-equity company, BHR Equity Investment Fund Management Co., aimed to raise in 2014.

From New York Times Oct. 3, 2019

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