# Clearlake Capital Group

> Clearlake Capital Group is a Santa Monica-based investment firm that manages roughly $90 billion across private equity, private credit, and special situations. Founded in 2006, it concentrates on three sectors - technology, industrials, and consumer - and rebuilds the companies it buys using a proprietary playbook it calls O.P.S. (Operations, People, Strategy). It is best known in the U.S. for its operations-heavy buyouts of software companies and best known everywhere else as co-owner of Chelsea Football Club.

- **Founded:** 2006
- **Headquarters:** Santa Monica, California, United States
- **Founders:** Behdad Eghbali (Co-Founder & Managing Partner), José E. Feliciano (Co-Founder & Managing Partner), Steven Chang (Co-Founder (departed 2015))
- **Team size:** ~250-270 employees
- **Products:** Private Equity, Clearlake Credit, Special Situations & Opportunities, O.P.S. Framework
- **Notable:** Grew to approximately $90 billion in assets under management within about two decades of founding., Deployed over $70 billion in liquid and illiquid credit investments globally., Co-led the ~$3 billion acquisition of Chelsea Football Club in 2022.

## Products & services

- **Private Equity** — Sector-focused buyouts, corporate divestitures, recapitalizations, and special situations across technology, industrials, and consumer, driven by the O.P.S. operational framework.
- **Clearlake Credit** — Specialist credit platform spanning liquid and illiquid strategies, underwriting investments up to $1 billion across private and liquid credit; formed on the strategic acquisition of MV Credit.
- **Special Situations & Opportunities** — Investments in complex, distressed, and out-of-favor situations, restructurings, and companies in transition through the Clearlake Opportunities strategy.
- **O.P.S. Framework** — Proprietary value-creation methodology - Operations, People, and Strategy - applied across portfolio companies via 100-day plans, governance, and operational improvement.

## Achievements

- Grew to approximately $90 billion in assets under management within about two decades of founding.
- Deployed over $70 billion in liquid and illiquid credit investments globally.
- Co-led the ~$3 billion acquisition of Chelsea Football Club in 2022.
- Closed flagship Fund VIII at $14.8 billion of capital commitments in 2026.
- Built Clearlake Credit into a platform representing $57 billion+ of credit deployed, targeting a tripling of the credit base by 2030.
- Executed marquee take-privates including Cornerstone OnDemand, Alteryx, and Dun & Bradstreet.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Closed Clearlake Capital Partners VIII with $14.8 billion in commitments, positioned around AI-driven business transformation.
- **2025-11** — Acquired Pathway Capital Management (~$1 billion) to enter the private-wealth market.
- **2025-05** — Launched 'Clearlake Credit' on completion of the MV Credit acquisition; platform represents $57 billion+ of credit deployed globally.
- **2025** — Completed the ~$7.7 billion acquisition of Dun & Bradstreet.
- **2024** — Agreed to acquire MV Credit from Natixis Investment Managers, expanding European private credit and loan origination.

## Links

- Website: https://clearlake.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clearlake-capital-group-lp
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/clearlake
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/ClearlakeCapital

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Last updated: 2026-08-15