Leonard Green & Partners, L.P., founded in 1989 and headquartered in Los Angeles, is a prominent American private equity investment firm specializing in private equity investments. Since its inception, LGP has successfully invested in over 95 companies.
Leonard I. Green (1934–2002) was a distinguished American businessman, renowned as the founding partner of the leveraged buyout firm Leonard Green & Partners and as chairman of the board of the Los Angeles Opera. He earned a B.A. in economics from Cornell University in 1955, followed by an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Graduate School in 1956. In 1965, he furthered his education with a law degree from Loyola University in Chicago.
Leonard Green & Partners is an investment firm managing discretionary assets totaling $77,831,733,868, as reported in their Form ADV dated March 2024. Serving 84 clients, the firm's Q1 2024 13F filing disclosed $5,493,155,994 in managed 13F securities, with a top 10 holdings concentration of 99.93%. Their largest holding is Mister Car Wash Inc., with 219,213,079 shares held.
