Top Financial services acquirers
Banking, insurance, wealth, payments and financial infrastructure.
Showing 50 firms tagged to this industry, of 282 acquirers we track. Industry tags are still being backfilled — a firm missing here may simply not be tagged yet.
- Wealth & financial advice
- Insurance & broking
- Payments & fintech
- Lending & credit
private equity firm42
A private equity firm buys with someone else's money and a clock already running. Their funds have a shelf life of roughly a decade, so they typically fund part of the deal with debt, want majority or full control of the business, and plan to sell you on again within three to seven years. None of that makes them a bad buyer — it just means the deal, and the years that follow it, look different from selling to someone who never plans to let go.
- Adamantem CapitalAustraliaPE5 holdings
- Advent InternationalUnited StatesPE16 holdings
- Advent PartnersAustraliaPE6 holdings
- Australian Business Growth FundAustraliaPE10 holdings
- Australian Finance GroupAustraliaPE6 holdings
- AVC Enterprises InternationalAustraliaPE3 holdings
- AZ NGAAustraliaPE49 holdings
- Banksia CapitalAustraliaPE6 holdings
- BGH CapitalAustraliaPE14 holdings
- Bridgeport CapitalAustraliaPE3 holdings
- Broadridge Financial SolutionsUnited StatesPE2 holdings
- COG Financial ServicesAustraliaPE9 holdings
- Colinton Capital PartnersAustraliaPE13 holdings
- EnlyteUnited StatesPE2 holdings
- Francisco PartnersUnited StatesPE87 holdings
- Genstar CapitalUnited StatesPE47 holdings
- GTCRUnited StatesPE47 holdings
- HUB24AustraliaPE2 holdings
- IronbridgeAustraliaPE7 holdings
- Marlin Equity PartnersUnited StatesPE10 holdings
- Mercury CapitalAustraliaPE1 holding
- NetwealthAustraliaPE2 holdings
- Nightingale PartnersAustraliaPE14 holdings
- Pacific Equity PartnersAustraliaPE24 holdings
- Platinum EquityUnited StatesPE58 holdings
- Prime Financial GroupAustraliaPE4 holdings
- Quadrant Private EquityAustraliaPE7 holdings
- Regal Partners LimitedAustraliaPE7 holdings
- Roper TechnologiesUnited StatesPE29 holdings
- Salter BrothersAustraliaPE7 holdings
- Silver LakeUnited StatesPE66 holdings
- Soul PattsAustraliaPE8 holdings
- SS&C TechnologiesUnited StatesPE4 holdings
- Tasman Capital PartnersAustraliaPE4 holdings
- Teoh CapitalAustraliaPENo holdings tracked
- Tozer and CoAustraliaPE10 holdings
- Veritas CapitalUnited StatesPE16 holdings
- VertaforeUnited StatesPE2 holdings
- Vista Equity PartnersUnited StatesPE87 holdings
- VysarnAustraliaPE8 holdings
- Warburg PincusUnited StatesPE176 holdings
- Yorkway PrivateAustraliaPE6 holdings
serial acquirer3
A serial acquirer buys businesses on repeat and holds them for good — resale was never the plan. There's no fund clock forcing an exit and no head office plan to fold your brand into theirs: most run on their own cash and keep your name, your team, and your day-to-day running as-is. For a founder, that's a different bet to a PE firm's timed flip or a strategic's full integration — you're picking a permanent home, not a line in someone else's exit deck.
strategic acquirer5
A strategic acquirer is a company already operating in your world, not a fund looking for a return. It's buying you to bolt you into something bigger: a product it wants, a customer base it needs, or a team it can't hire fast enough. That changes the deal itself — expect deeper integration into their business, a longer view than a typical financial buyer, and a price that reflects what you unlock for them, not just what your P&L says on its own.