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Top 25 Distressed equity firms based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 56 distressed equity firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 514 professional contacts across them, including 302 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers distressed equity firms headquartered in Chicago, 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 Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 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. | |||||
| 2 | 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. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Focus Management Group is headquartered in Chicago, IL, with offices in Tampa, and Cleveland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Based in Chicago, May River Capital is a private equity investment firm founded by three partners seeking to help lower middle-market, high-caliber industrial businesses grow and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Copia Group is a diverse-owned investment adviser that provides debt and equity capital solutions to privately held, lower middle-market, U.S-based companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Erie Street Growth Partners is a private investment firm that partners with founders, management teams, and investors to achieve next-level growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “5th Century Partners (5CP) is a purpose-driven private investment firm that invests in middle-market companies within the healthcare and business services sectors that it believes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Concentric Equity Partners is a private investment firm based in Chicago, IL.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Complex business challenges require a proven team of skilled professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wexford Capital Partners is a private investment firm focused on companies where our experience and relationships will create value for both existing shareholders and our network…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Juno Investments LLC ("Juno"), is private firm based in New York and Chicago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2007, Speedwagon Capital Partners began as a distressed investor during the global financial crisis-an environment that shaped our opportunistic and value-driven…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Guardian Capital is a diversified real estate investment management firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “American Working Capital ("AWC") is an investment firm seeking to partner with management and employees for mutual long-term growth opportunities through mezzanine and equity…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Private Investments team of PSP Partners makes direct investments in established businesses as PSP Capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Andrews Advisory Group is an organization of seasoned restructuring professionals with diverse experiences and backgrounds in finance, accounting, law, banking and operations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 20 years, the principals of Altitude have actively invested in the lower middle market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Black Phoenix Group is a private investment firm that invests in companies located in or near large American cities and their surrounding communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tin Goose Partners is an investment firm focused on growth capital investments in the healthcare, transportation, and financial services industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Synetro Group is a non-traditional private investment and strategic advisory firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “312) Investments makes debt and equity investments in middle-market businesses with a focus on building M&A platforms and raising additional growth capital post-investment” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Concord Financial Advisors, LLC is a investment banking and financial advisory firm serving public and private middle market companies that require a seasoned debt placement…” 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 Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 56 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 Chicago, 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 Chicago 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, 302 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.
Distressed equity firms by metro in the United States
- Distressed equity firms in New York176
- Distressed equity firms in Chicago56
- Distressed equity firms in Los Angeles46
- Distressed equity firms in Dallas39
- Distressed equity firms in Houston34
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 Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 56 distressed equity firms headquartered in Chicago, 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?
Equity Group Investments, headquartered in Chicago, 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 302 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 56 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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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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