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Hellman & Friedman

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Hellman & Friedman is a private equity firm founded in 1984, focusing on large-scale investments in high-quality, growing businesses in developed markets. It operates as a partnership with offices in San Francisco, New York, and London.

Hellman & Friedman is a private equity firm headquartered in San Francisco, United States, founded in 1984. It invests directly in companies, from growth to buyout, in technology, healthcare, consumer Services & Retail and financial Services. ~$115B under management and 100 portfolio companies, as it reports.

“We are focused on making a limited number of large-scale private equity-related investments in high quality, growing businesses in the developed markets.”

— Hellman & Friedman, own website
Layer
Direct investor
Type
Private equity
Stage
Growth – Buyout
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Invests in
North America, Europe
Sectors
Technology, Healthcare, Consumer Services & Retail, Financial Services, Information, Content & Business Services
Founded
1984
Assets under management
~$115B
Portfolio
100 companies

Team, as Hellman & Friedman publishes it

  • Aron Ain Operating Partner
  • Ted Akiskalos Managing Director
  • Casilda Aresti Principal
  • Julia Arnold Director of Partner Services
  • Ahad Badruddin Associate
  • Stuart Banks Partner & General Counsel, Europe
  • Catie Barile Director
  • Kevin Barrera Associate
  • Brooke Baxter Associate
  • Matt Belcher Head of Tax and Partner Services
  • Jake Bennett Associate
  • Jacob Best Partner

Names and roles exactly as listed on hf.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.

Most shared portfolio companies with

Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 30 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.

and 20 more — the graph.

Limited partners that disclose a commitment

From the LP's own published fund list — the LP is the source, not the manager.

Where this comes from

Every fact above was read from a page Hellman & Friedman publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.

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Record 1320 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high

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