industry private equity founded 1966 ; 50 years ago 1966 founder eric warburg lionel pincus headquarters 450 lexington avenue new york city new york united states key people charles r. kaye joseph p. landy co ceos timothy f. geithner president products investments private equity funds total assets 35 billion 1 website warburgpincus.com warburg pincus llc is an american global private equity firm with offices in the united states europe brazil china and india . it has been a private equity investor since 1966 . citation needed the firm currently has approximately 35 billion 1 in assets under management and invests in a range of sectors including consumer industrial and services energy financial services health care technology media and telecommunication and real estate . warburg pincus is a growth investor . 2 warburg pincus has raised 13 private equity funds which have invested 45 billion in over 675 companies in 35 countries . 1 warburg pincus invests in the information and communication technology sectors including investments in avaya bharti tele ventures harbour networks neustar payscale 3 and telcordia . 4 5 contents 1 history 1.1 founding and early history 1.2 initial public offerings 1.3 venture capital 1.4 growth capital 1.5 fight over the warburg name 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit history of private equity and venture capital early history origins of modern private equity the 1980s leveraged buyout boom the 1990s leveraged buyout and the venture capital bubble the 2000s dot com bubble to the credit crunch v t e founding and early history edit in 1939 eric warburg of the warburg banking family founded a company under the name e.m. warburg & co. its first address was 52 william street new york the kuhn loeb building . throughout the early post war period the firm was a small office of 20 employees . in 1966 e.m. warburg merged with lionel i. pincus & co forming a new company that eventually became known as e.m. warburg pincus & co. 6 in 1965 when eric warburg retired to germany control was handed to lionel pincus a partner in the ladenburg thalmann investment bank and the working language of the office switched from german to english . lionel ran the company from 1966 to 2002 and died in 2009 . 7 warburg pincus began investing in europe in 1983 and opened its first office in asia in 1994 . it has invested more than 5 billion in europe ; more than 3 billion in india 8 and more than 3.3 billion in china . the firm is headquartered in new york and has offices in beijing frankfurt hong kong london mumbai san francisco s o paulo and shanghai with administrative offices in amsterdam luxembourg and mauritius . 9 the firm is structured as a global partnership led by co presidents charles kaye and joseph landy . 10 kaye has been with warburg pincus since 1986 and worked to launch the asian operations . landy has been with the firm since 1985 focusing on investments in information technology communications applications and structured investments . approximately 40 % of the firm s investments are outside of the u.s. warburg pincus investments in india include alliance tire group moser baer capital first au financiers hdfc bank kotak mahindra bank capillary technologies cartrade.com quikr ecom express bharti airtel etc. 11 initial public offerings edit warburg pincus has completed more initial public offerings with its companies than any other global private equity firm . 12 more than 120 warburg pincus companies have listed on exchanges raising approximately 15 billion in public markets . in each of these ipos the firm was the principal financial investor in the portfolio company . the companies have listed on 12 exchanges including at least 20 ipos outside the u.s. in august 2010 a six year partnership between management and warburg pincus led to meg energy s successful ipo . 13 venture capital edit warburg pincus has a history of venture capital investing . the firm is a founding member of the venture capital associations in the u.s. and china and offers a global entrepreneur in residence program to help start up new businesses . citation needed in october 2014 reuters reported that warburg pincus had raised 4 billion for its first energy focused private equity fund in order to capitalise on north america s shale gas boom . 14 growth capital edit warburg pincus has invested in companies such as harbin pharmaceutical in china 15 bharti telecommunications in india amrest in poland 16 and nuance communications in the u.s. 17 in bharti airtel warburg pincus had invested 292 million across multiple tranches and exited with 1.9 billion in 2005 which is considered to be the largest private equity exit in india . 18 fight over the warburg name edit during the post war period eric warburg vied with his cousin siegmund warburg founder of s.g. warburg over the use of the warburg name in new york . siegmund wished to expand the s.g. warburg franchise into new york but was blocked by the existence of e.m. warburg & co. following the effective sale of the business to pincus siegmund warburg accused eric of prostituting the warburg name . complicating matters was that siegmund thought pincus the wrong kind of jew of eastern european ancestry with a garment district background . professionally he thought pincus well below haute banque stature in the venture capital world . 19 in january 1970 siegmund finally got the name changed to e.m. warburg pincus & company to differentiate it from s.g. warburg & company . in the end however lionel pincus had the last laugh on siegmund . he expanded eric s tiny firm into a giant thriving business with three and a half billion dollars of venture capital partnerships . 19 in 1999 they attempted to purchase english premier league football soccer team everton . 20 see also edit m. m. warburg & co. s. g. warburg & co. references edit a b c warburg pincus invests 40 million in complexcare solutions to fund growth . the sacramento bee . january 9 2014 . michael j. de la merced may 10 2013 . warburg pincus closes latest fund at 11.2 billion . the new york times . cook john 24 april 2014 . salary report generator payscale getting up to 100m in deal led by warburg pincus . geekwire . retrieved 7 may 2014 . telcordia ericsson closes telcordia acquisition . reuters . january 12 2012 . warburg pincus investments . warburg pincus llc . bansal paritosh 2009 10 11 . warburg pincus founder lionel pincus dies . reuters . fabrikant geraldine 2009 10 12 . lionel pincus who helped bring investors to private equity dies at 78 . the new york times . shraddha nair december 4 2011 . niten malhan & vishal mahadevia we would like to be specialists . livemint.com . warburg pincus locations . warburg pincus llc . warburg pincus executive management group . warburg pincus llc . warburg pincus venture intelligence . www.ventureintelligence.com . retrieved 2015 11 30 . geoff foster march 25 2013 . market report warburg woos pharma target bausch & lomb . daily mail . andrew willis june 14 2010 . meg energy launches massive ipo . the globe and mail . greg roumeliotis october 27 2014 . warburg pincus raises 4 billion private equity fund for energy . reuters . warburg pincus takes 22.5 pct stake in china s harbin pharmaceutical report pdf . forbes.com . november 6 2005 . warburg pincus in pln 307.2 m pipe for amrest . unquote.com . april 26 2010 . warburg pincus invests 175m in nuance . boston.com . january 15 2009 . warburg pincus venture intelligence . www.ventureintelligence.com . retrieved 2015 09 30 . a b ron chernow 1994 . the warburgs the twentieth century odyssey of a remarkable jewish family . knopf doubleday publishing group . isbn 978 0 679 74359 0 . everton takeover bid accepted . bbc news . 1999 10 16 . retrieved 2010 01 06 . external links edit official website v t e private equity and venture capital basic investment types buyout venture mezzanine growth secondaries equity co investment history history of 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