About Golden Gate Capital
Golden Gate Capital is a private equity firm focused on buyout and growth equity investments across three specialized industry verticals: consumer, industrials, and technology and financial services, in companies headquartered in the United States. The firm commits equity of $25 million to $200 million per transaction in businesses with enterprise values between $100 million and $800 million or more, with sector coverage spanning enterprise software, IT services, business services, technology-enabled services, financial technology, consumer products and retail, and media. Transaction types include leveraged buyouts, corporate carve-outs and extractions, public-to-private transactions, bankruptcy auctions, recapitalizations, consolidations, divestitures, and significant minority growth capital investments, with majority control as the standard ownership structure. Golden Gate applies a patient capital, partnership-oriented investment philosophy, operating an evergreen fund structure with no finite life that allows the firm to hold investments without the pressure of a fixed fundraising cycle, and organizes its investment teams into specialized vertical groups to build deep sector domain expertise. The firm manages over $15 billion in assets across approximately 50 investment professionals. Founded in 2000 by David Dominik and other former Bain Capital and Bain & Company professionals, the firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.