Warburg Pincus is a global leader in the industry it helped create: Private Equity. With With more than 40 years experience, Warburg has invested more than $40 billion in approximately 650 companies in more than 30 countries around the world.
Partnering with superior management teams to create sustainable value, Warburg Pincus helps companies to formulate strategy, conceptualize and implement creative financing structures and recruit talented executives, always drawing on best practices from the firm’s portfolio companies.
At the heart of our approach to investing is an emphasis on building businesses that withstand the test of time. With an average investment period of five to seven years, we take an unusually long-term perspective. Matched with our size and scope of funds under management, this approach enables the firm to provide substantial resources to our portfolio companies, a critical advantage in the face of constantly changing economic conditions and volatile financial markets.
The firm's unique, globally-integrated partnership ensures that all of our resources are committed to the success of each portfolio company. Regardless of an investment's stage of development, industry focus or geography — the right people, with the right experience, are available to every entrepreneur and management team.
Warburg Pincus traces its roots to E.M. Warburg & Co., founded in 1939. The firm was acquired by Lionel I. Pincus & Co. in 1966, forming Warburg Pincus. John Vogelstein joined Lionel Pincus and together they helped to create the private equity industry. Today Warburg Pincus is a globally-integrated partnership led by co-presidents Charles R. Kaye and Joseph P. Landy.
