Key Takeaways
- • Dakota's guide profiles ten private equity and private markets firms headquartered in or operating from the Philadelphia metro area, including Hamilton Lane, Franklin Park, CenterSquare, Susquehanna Growth Equity, Lovell Minnick Partners, Graham Partners, LBC Credit Partners, LLR Partners, Argosy Capital, and NewSpring Capital.
- • Hamilton Lane is the largest firm profiled, reporting approximately $956.1 billion in assets under management and supervision as of December 31, 2024, and is publicly traded on NASDAQ under HLNE.
- • Several profiled managers report specific scale metrics: CenterSquare about $13.5 billion AUM, Argosy Capital about $3.5 billion, NewSpring Capital over $3.5 billion, Graham Partners over $3.7 billion committed capital, Lovell Minnick over $5 billion committed capital, and LLR Partners over $7 billion raised across seven funds.
- • The article is a promotional guide published by Dakota, a private equity intelligence platform, and its figures are self-reported profile data rather than independently verified.
Summary
Dakota has published a 2026 guide spotlighting private equity firms in the Philadelphia metro area, framing the region as an attractive location for private capital given its diversified economy across healthcare, finance, technology, education, and manufacturing, and its lower cost of living relative to New York or San Francisco. The article notes that Pennsylvania has continued to attract businesses while several northeastern states have seen departures. The piece is published by Dakota, which promotes its Dakota Marketplace platform, so the profiles should be read as firm-supplied or platform-compiled descriptions.
Hamilton Lane, headquartered in Conshohocken and founded in 1991, is the largest firm profiled, with approximately $956.1 billion in assets under management and supervision as of December 31, 2024. The firm serves institutional investors, pensions, sovereign wealth funds, and insurers across private equity, credit, infrastructure, real estate, and venture capital, and trades on NASDAQ as HLNE. Franklin Park, an employee-owned firm founded in 2003 and based in Bala Cynwyd with an office in Dublin, provides fund-of-funds, co-investment, and advisory access to private equity, private debt, and venture capital.
Other profiled managers include CenterSquare Investment Management, a Philadelphia-based real estate manager with about $13.5 billion in AUM; Susquehanna Growth Equity, which manages over $2 billion on permanent capital from Susquehanna International Group and targets $5M to $100M investments in B2B software; Lovell Minnick Partners, based in Radnor, with over $5 billion committed and a focus on financial services and fintech; Graham Partners, based in Newtown Square, with over $3.7 billion committed and more than 130 acquisitions; LBC Credit Partners, which was acquired by CIFC Asset Management in 2021 and has invested over $10.9 billion across more than 329 transactions; LLR Partners, a lower middle-market firm with over $7 billion raised across seven funds; Argosy Capital, based in Wayne with about $3.5 billion in AUM; and NewSpring Capital, based in Radnor with over $3.5 billion AUM and more than 250 portfolio investments.
Hamilton Lane, headquartered in Conshohocken and founded in 1991, is the largest firm profiled, with approximately $956.1 billion in assets under management and supervision as of December 31, 2024. The firm serves institutional investors, pensions, sovereign wealth funds, and insurers across private equity, credit, infrastructure, real estate, and venture capital, and trades on NASDAQ as HLNE. Franklin Park, an employee-owned firm founded in 2003 and based in Bala Cynwyd with an office in Dublin, provides fund-of-funds, co-investment, and advisory access to private equity, private debt, and venture capital.
Other profiled managers include CenterSquare Investment Management, a Philadelphia-based real estate manager with about $13.5 billion in AUM; Susquehanna Growth Equity, which manages over $2 billion on permanent capital from Susquehanna International Group and targets $5M to $100M investments in B2B software; Lovell Minnick Partners, based in Radnor, with over $5 billion committed and a focus on financial services and fintech; Graham Partners, based in Newtown Square, with over $3.7 billion committed and more than 130 acquisitions; LBC Credit Partners, which was acquired by CIFC Asset Management in 2021 and has invested over $10.9 billion across more than 329 transactions; LLR Partners, a lower middle-market firm with over $7 billion raised across seven funds; Argosy Capital, based in Wayne with about $3.5 billion in AUM; and NewSpring Capital, based in Radnor with over $3.5 billion AUM and more than 250 portfolio investments.
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