Apax Partners

About us

Apax Partners is a global private equity group that invests in five industry sectors. Founded more than 30 years ago, the firm uses its sector expertise, deep local presence and broad global platform to create value for its stakeholders.

Mission

Our mission is to help management teams create value for the benefit of the company, its employees, and ultimately the millions of individuals whose pension funds and investment plans commit to our funds. We provide this service with the utmost integrity and professionalism.

Funds advised by Apax Partners total $35 billion around the world. These funds provide long-term equity financing to build and strengthen world-class companies. Apax Partners invests in large companies across five global growth sectors:

Tech & Telecom
Media
Retail & Consumer
Healthcare
Financial & Business Services

Global reach

As the private equity market matures, we believe that the best-performing firms will be those with genuine global reach and financial scale. Apax is one of a small group of private equity firms to have embraced the challenge of globalisation. We are committed to maintaining our track record of delivering exceptional private equity returns.

Since 1995, over 65 companies owned by Apax Partners’ Funds have gone public on stock markets around the world. At point of entry to market, these companies had a collective market capitalisation of over $35 billion.

Team

Our scale and focus enables us to attract and retain the very best talent from around the globe. The company is a partnership of outstanding individuals who align their interests with those of shareholders and portfolio companies by investing a significant proportion of their own capital. The second generation of partners who now run the firm continue to share the values of stewardship, excellence and long-term relationships on which Apax was founded.