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Top 25 Distressed equity firms based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 1,077 distressed equity firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 12,247 professional contacts across them, including 5,916 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers distressed equity firms headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest distressed equity firms based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,301 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “H.I.G.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 528 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hilco Global is a privately held diversified financial services company and the world’s preeminent authority on maximizing the value of assets for both healthy and distressed…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 447 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Riverside Company is a global investment firm focused on being one of the leading private capital options for business owners and employees at the smaller end of the middle…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 395 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Peachtree Group is a vertically integrated investment management firm that identifies mispriced risk and capitalizes on dislocated market opportunities, primarily across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 385 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1978, CD & R is an investment firm with an investment strategy predicated on building stronger, more profitable businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 337 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Purchasing claims and interests in distressed situations” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 283 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Partners, LLC has transformed under-performing companies into high performance operations for more than 60 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 236 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Based in Boston and New York City, Charlesbank is a leading middle-market private investment firm with $21.5 billion in assets under management as of 3/31/2026.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 218 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Avenue Capital Group, founded in 1995 by Marc Lasry and Sonia Gardner, is primarily focused on making opportunistic credit and other special situations investments across the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 172 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bringing large market expertise to smaller companies, Star Mountain’s philosophies include a data-driven and systematic approach to investing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Main Street Capital (NYSE: MAIN) is a leading provider of long-term, flexible capital solutions to established lower middle market companies, supporting American businesses that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kennedy Lewis Investment Management is an opportunistic credit manager focusing on event-driven situations in which a catalyst may unlock investment value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We build value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WHO WE ARE Trive Capital is a Dallas, TX based private equity firm with more than $8 billion of regulatory assets under management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Equity Group Investments (EGI) is the private investment firm founded by Sam Zell in 1968.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Flexpoint Ford is a specialist private equity firm focused on financial services and adjacent verticals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tenex Capital Management is a private equity firm that invests in middle-market companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gridiron Capital is an investment firm focused on partnering with founders, entrepreneurs, and management teams, and creating value by building middle-market companies into…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Peak Rock Capital is a leading middle-market private investment firm headquartered in Austin with an office in London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Stephens Group is a private investment firm that partners with talented management teams to help build valuable businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1988 by Ken Picerne, The Picerne Group, Inc.(“TPG”) is an investment company with particular expertise in the areas of non-performing loan and distressed debt…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Oak Point is a private investment firm that specializes in the acquisition of non-operating, underperforming, and residual assets from both distressed entities and active…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since our founding more than 35 years ago, Phoenix has been effectively addressing complex enterprise situations by executing operationally focused solutions for clients across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Stellex Capital Management LP is a private equity firm that invests in middle-market companies in North America and Europe through its offices in New York and London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: distressed equity firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names distressed equity firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of distressed equity firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name distressed equity firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Distressed equity firms based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 1,077 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among distressed equity firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “distressed equity firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names distressed equity firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among distressed equity firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 5,916 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names distressed equity firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many distressed equity firms are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 1,077 distressed equity firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
H.I.G. Capital, headquartered in Miami, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most distressed equity firms?
New York leads with 176 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (56) and Los Angeles (46).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 5,916 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,077 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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