Trilantic Capital Partners (Trilantic) is a global private equity firm focused on control and significant minority investments across a range of industries in North America and Europe managed by Trilantic North America and Trilantic Europe.^[4] The firm specializes in management buyouts, recapitalizations, growth equity, middle market investments and corporate divestitures investments. Trilantic invests through equity and equity-linked securities transactions.^[5]

Trilantic North America primarily targets investments in the business services, consumer, energy and financial services sectors; Trilantic Europe primarily targets investments in business services, consumer and leisure, healthcare, industrial and TMT sectors.^[6][7] The firm has managed six institutional private equity funds with aggregate capital commitments of $9.7 billion, as of July 2019.^[8]

Trilantic was spun out from Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking (LBMB), in 2009,^[9] by five founding partners, each of whom had workers at LBMB,^[10][11] which had been founded as the private equity arm of Lehman Brothers, in 1986, during the 1980s leveraged buyout boom.^[12] In April 2009, Trilantic acquired LBMB out of the bankruptcy estate of Lehman Brothers with the support of Reinet Investments S.C.A, a Luxembourg securitization vehicle controlled by the Rupert family and listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.^[13] On May 11, 2022, it was announced that Trilantic Europe is buying the polling company Kantar Public (previously part of the Kantar Group) in the third quarter of 2022.^[14]

• Lehman Brothers Venture Partners