Private Equity · Profile from Private Equity Research Companion
Permira
From Schroder Ventures to a global, sector-focused buyout and growth investor: one of Europe's oldest PE franchises, scarred by its 2006–07 vintage and reborn as a technology-led investor.
At a glance
- Founded
- 1985 as Schroder Ventures (European buyout arm of J. Henry Schroder Wagg); independent and renamed Permira in 2001
- Headquarters
- London (Permira Holdings Ltd, Guernsey); offices in New York, San Francisco, Menlo Park, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore
- Ownership
- Private partnership; not listed
- AUM
- ~€80bn+ (reported, 2024–25) across buyout, growth and credit
- Strategies
- Permira Buyout (flagship), Permira Growth Opportunities, Permira Credit
- Sectors
- Technology, Consumer, Healthcare, Services (historically also industrials, TMT, financial services)
- Flagship fund (latest)
- Permira VIII — ~€16bn+ (closed 2022, reported ~€16.7bn including GP commitment)
12 deals and moves analysed
Each one gets a full strategy file in the companion: context, the decision, the financing, what happened, and the lesson.
2003
Seat Pagine Gialle
Carve-out / Structured Control Acquisition
2004
New Look
Public-to-Private Buyout
2006
Birds Eye Iglo
Corporate Carve-out
2006
ProSiebenSat1
Control Stake Acquisition
2007
Valentino Fashion Group
Public-to-Private
2012
Ancestry
Public-to-Private
2012
Genesys
Corporate Carve-out
2013
Dr Martens
Family Buyout
2015
Informatica
Public-to-Private Software Buyout
2020
Golden Goose
Secondary Buyout
2022
Zendesk
Public-to-Private Software Buyout
2024
Squarespace
Public-to-Private