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Clearlake Businesses

Clearlake provides integrated private equity, credit and related solutions with a flexible, partnership approach to investors worldwide.

Private Equity

Supported by our O.P.S.® operational improvement framework, Clearlake employs an all-weather approach to investing designed to take advantage of market dislocations, complex situations, and companies in transition to create value.

  • Sector focused: technology, industrials, and consumer
  • Buyouts, turnarounds, carveouts, recapitalization and reorganizations
  • Partnership with experienced management teams
  • Control investments
  • Dynamic mid-cap and large-cap businesses

Credit

Backed by a global team of experienced investors, Clearlake Credit provides flexible capital solutions to dynamic businesses in North America and Europe.

  • $90 billion+ deployed into liquid and illiquid credit investments to date
  • Investments of up to $1 billion
  • Bespoke capital solutions supporting acquisitions, refinancings, growth capital, and dividends
  • Private Credit: senior direct lending, subordinated financing, and other junior capital solutions
  • Liquid Credit: $25 billion+ of AUM across 75+ active CLOs

Pathway Capital Management

Built around the needs of the investor for 35 years, Pathway Capital Management designs private markets portfolios for institutional and wealth investors worldwide.

  • $130 billion+ in committed capital across 115+ customized portfolios since 1991
  • Primaries, secondaries, co-investments, and direct credit
  • More than 350 advisory board seats with established global managers
  • Purposefully selective: approximately 3% selection rate over the last three years, with 21,000+ primary opportunities reviewed since 1991
  • Investor partnerships averaging 25 years among its 10 largest clients

O.P.S.®: Operational Improvement Approach

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Clearlake leverages our O.P.S.® framework to deliver improvements at our portfolio companies. Through O.P.S.®, we generate creative solutions to operational challenges and provide companies with access to resources they typically don’t possess.

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