Silver Lake is a global private equity firm founded in 1999. The firm is the leader in private investment in technology related industries with approximately USD 14 billion in assets under management.
Silver Lake has more than 90 investment professionals and has offices in Menlo Park, New York, London, San Francisco, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
Silver Lake is specializing in 3 primary areas:
- Silver Lake Partners – Large Cap Technology
Silver Lake Partners focuses on making large private equity investments in leading technology companies. Latest 5 investments are: Groupon (Social Commerce), Zynga (Social Networks and Online Gaming), Interactive Data Corporation (Financial Information Services), Allyes (Digital Media Services) and MultiPlan (Healthcare Cost Management). - Silver Lake Sumeru – Middle Market Technology
Silver Lake Sumeru invests in middle market technology companies. In executing its investment strategy, Silver Lake Sumeru combines technology sector knowledge, due diligence processes and a network of industry relationships to create competitive advantage.
Silver Lake Sumeru’s portfolio companies include: PrimeSense (Gesture Recognition Solutions), Locaweb (Webhosting and Cloud Computing), Talend (Software) and Spansion (Semiconductors). - Silver Lake Financial – Credit Investing
Silver Lake Financial manages a portfolio of debt investments. Its investing strategy emphasizes undervalued, stressed and distressed debt opportunities derived primarily from the secondary market and the proprietary Silver Lake network.
Private Equity Deal News
On May 10, 2011, Microsoft and Skype announced that Microsoft will acquire Skype. Skype was acquired by an investment group led by Silver Lake in November 2009. Under Silver Lake’s leadership, Skype has made various impressive milestones and it looks like that has now paid off.
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