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Warburg Pincus

Founded: 1966 (E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co., New York); roots in E.M. Warburg & Co. (1938)

14 deals and moves analysed

Each one gets a full strategy file in the companion: context, the decision, the financing, what happened, and the lesson.

  1. 1984

    Mattel

    Rescue Recapitalization / Minority Control Investment

  2. 1995

    BEA Systems

    Venture Incubation / Founding Growth Equity

  3. 1996

    Knoll

    Corporate Carve-out LBO, IPO, Re-take-private and Re-IPO

  4. 1997

    Coventry Health Care

    Turnaround Growth Equity / PIPE

  5. 1999

    Bharti Tele Ventures

    Growth Equity, Minority

  6. 2003

    Antero Resources

    Management-Team Backed Energy Growth Equity

  7. 2007

    Bausch and Lomb

    Take-Private LBO

  8. 2007

    MBIA

    PIPE / Crisis Recapitalisation of a Bond Insurer

  9. 2011

    ESR Group

    Platform Incubation

  10. 2012

    AU Small Finance Bank

    Growth Equity, Minority

  11. 2015

    ZTO Express

    Pre-IPO Growth Equity

  12. 2017

    Avaloq

    Minority Growth Equity in Banking Software

  13. 2025

    Clearwater Analytics

    Take-Private

  14. 2025

    Triumph Group

    Take-Private