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Top 25 Private equity restructuring firms based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 191 private equity restructuring firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 3,248 professional contacts across them, including 1,882 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (521 companies); Chicago follows with 191.
This list covers private equity restructuring 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 29, 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 private equity restructuring firms based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 327 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Shore Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm with an office in Nashville, is an investor in lower-middle market companies in the Healthcare, Food and Beverage, Business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 237 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1980, GTCR is a leading private equity firm that invests behind The Leaders Strategy™ – finding and partnering with management leaders in core domains to identify…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DPO & Co specializes in helping Private Equity firms and their portfolio companies gain fact-based insights during the diligence process and realize post-close synergies and value…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Portage Point is a business advisory, interim management and investment banking firm intensely focused on the middle market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TPG Twin Brook Capital Partners, TPG Angelo Gordon’s middle market direct lending business, is a direct lending finance company focused on providing cash-flow based financing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC ("MDP") is a leading private equity investment firm based in Chicago that, since its formation in 1992, has raised aggregate capital of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Equity Group Investments (EGI) is the private investment firm founded by Sam Zell in 1968.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Flexpoint Ford is a specialist private equity firm focused on financial services and adjacent verticals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Wind Point Partners is a Chicago-based private equity investment firm with approximately $6 billion in assets under management*.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2001, RCP Advisors, a strategy of Ridgepost Capital (NYSE: RPC), is a private equity investment firm that provides access to North American small buyout fund managers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PPC partners with middle-market companies based in North America with positions in the manufactured products and services sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Keystone Group is a results-oriented management consulting firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Tyree & D'Angelo Partners ("TDP") is a private equity investment firm that focuses on control investments in the lower middle market (companies with $1-5M of EBITDA).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CORE is an industrials-focused private equity firm with more than $1.58 billion in total limited partner capital commitments across four funds investing in North American lower…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Frontenac is a Chicago-based private equity firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DSI is a leading provider of management consulting and financial advisory services, including turnaround consulting, financial restructure, litigation support and forensic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CIVC Partners is a private equity firm, based in Chicago, focused on middle market buyout, recapitalization, and growth equity investments in industry sectors where our firm can…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Silverman Consulting is a Midwest-based management advisory firm with a legacy of helping companies navigate their most critical moments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Focus Management Group is headquartered in Chicago, IL, with offices in Tampa, and Cleveland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “When the next move is critical.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Edgewater Funds is a Chicago-based private equity firm with over $4 billion of capital commitments raised since 2001.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Invision Capital, is a middle market private equity firm providing “Flexible Capital” to facilitate buyouts, recapitalizations and growth investments in manufacturing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The ProAction Group is the “Go-To” Operational Resource focused on Private Equity/Portfolio companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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: private equity restructuring 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 private equity restructuring firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of private equity restructuring firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name private equity restructuring 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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Private equity restructuring firms based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 29, 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 191 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 private equity restructuring 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 “private equity restructuring 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 private equity restructuring 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 private equity restructuring 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, 1,882 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 29, 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.
Private equity restructuring firms by metro in the United States
- Private equity restructuring firms in New York521
- Private equity restructuring firms in Dallas141
- Private equity restructuring firms in Los Angeles135
- Private equity restructuring firms in Houston105
- Private equity restructuring firms in Boston88
- Private equity restructuring firms in Atlanta82
- Private equity restructuring firms in Miami77
- Private equity restructuring firms in Austin71
- Private equity restructuring firms in San Francisco65
- Private equity restructuring firms in Denver55
- Private equity restructuring firms in Charlotte40
- Private equity restructuring firms in Newport Beach33
- Private equity restructuring firms in Washington31
- Private equity restructuring firms in Philadelphia28
- Private equity restructuring firms in Boca Raton27
- Private equity restructuring firms in Nashville27
- Private equity restructuring firms in San Diego27
- Private equity restructuring firms in Scottsdale26
- Private equity restructuring firms in Tampa26
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 private equity restructuring 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 private equity restructuring firms are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 191 private equity restructuring 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?
Shore Capital Partners, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most private equity restructuring firms?
New York leads the United States with 521 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (191) and Dallas (141).
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 1,882 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 191 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 29, 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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