Clearlake

The firm operates an asset‑management model centred on closed‑end private equity funds and credit platforms. It raises large capital pools from institutional and wealth investors into flagship private equity vehicles and dedicated credit strategies. This capital is deployed into buyouts, growth investments and credit exposures across technology, industrials, consumer and related sectors. Value is created by combining financial structuring with its O.P.S.® operational improvement framework to enhance portfolio company performance, pursue add‑on acquisitions and prepare optimised exits (trade sales, IPOs or recapitalisations). In credit, it structures senior, unitranche and other private credit solutions, as well as liquid and secondary strategies, generating yield and fee income. Scale, sector specialisation and integrated equity‑credit capabilities are key to its economics.

Clearlake Capital is a United States–based private investment firm focused on private equity and credit. It raises sector‑focused investment funds, primarily targeting technology, industrials and consumer businesses, and applies a proprietary operational improvement framework (O.P.S.®) to portfolio companies. The firm manages integrated platforms across private equity and liquid and private credit, with more than $70 billion in assets under management.

Clearlake earns revenue through management fees and performance‑based carried interest tied to its funds and credit vehicles, as well as returns from portfolio company exits, dividends and interest income from credit strategies. Its direct customers are institutional limited partners (pension funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies and wealth managers) and, on the credit side, sponsor‑backed companies using its financing solutions.