GS Capital Partners

Take Privates / Leveraged / Managed Buy-outs
Combines extensive due diligence, finance and structure dynamics in the execution phase with careful support and monitoring thereafter

Expansion / Growth Investments
Invests in private or public companies seeking capital to fund growth, either through acquisition or expansion

Build-ups
Supports new ideas and well-executed entrepreneurial plans, and identifies unique investment opportunities alongside talented management teams and strategic corporate partners

Recapitalizations
Provides capital to facilitate the recapitalization or refinancing of attractive companies facing short-term challenges

Closely Held Companies
Supplies capital and establishes balanced governance for family owners as they build their companies

Restructurings and Special Situations
Assists high quality companies during periods of transition possibly due to market dislocations, inadequate balance sheets, regulatory changes or investor disfavor with a specific industry

Distressed Investing
Invests in equity and debt securities of companies where we find appropriate risk reward characteristics that are consistent with our overall fund objectives.

GS Direct
We also invest $25 million to $200 million in capital, using the firm's balance sheet, across a broad range of industries in different forms of private equity or mezzanine investments. We invest in both control and minority investments, with an emphasis on co-investing alongside Goldman Sachs clients.