Actively operating as a private equity and venture capital firm, Warburg Pincus LLC places its investments in all stages of a company’s growth, from the primary founding startups, to early stage financing, to growth equity investments, as well as in developing companies, recapitalizations, restructurings, and the management buyouts of mature businesses.
The Warburg Pincus firm also invests in the changes made within control leveraged buyout transactions, minority private investments made in public companies, divisional spinouts of noncore corporate assets, as well as transactions made in favor of special situations while putting emphasis on the acquisition of undervalued companies.
In general, the firm typically invests in healthcare, financial services, media, telecommunications, energy, consumers and industrials, as well as in real estate sectors. In terms of life sciences and healthcare, the firm aims to invest in schemes that offer valuable services such as medical devices, healthcare services, specialty pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology. On medical devices, the firm shifts more of its attention to specific concerns including interventional cardiology, diabetes, orthopedics, as well as urology or gynecology. As for the investments made in financial services, Warburg Pincus places it investments primarily in private banking, specialty and consumer finance, payment and transaction processing companies, financial technology exchange, insurance companies, asset and wealth management, and in depository institutions.
With all these investments, the firm has become a global leader in the industry. Throughout its track record of more than 40 years, the firm has successfully invested over $29 billion in more than 600 companies in 30 countries all over the globe.
In an effort to create sustainable value, the firm has continuously partnered with superior management teams. As a result, Warburg Pincus has helped many companies formulate strategies, conceptualize, as well as execute creative financing structures, and employ talented and knowledgeable executives and professionals.
