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THE PEI 50 2009:

1. TPG
2. Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area
3. The Carlyle Group
4. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
5. Apollo Global Management
6. Bain Capital
7. CVC Capital Partners
8. The Blackstone Group
9. Warburg Pincus
10. Apax Partners
11. First Reserve Corporation
12. 3i Group
13. American Capital
14. Hellman & Friedman
15. Providence Equity Partners
16. Advent International
17. Terra Firma Capital Partners
18. General Atlantic
19. Fortress Investment Group
20. Silver Lake
21. Cerberus Capital Management
22. Permira
23. Clayton Dubilier & Rice
24. Lehman Brothers Private Equity
25. PAI Partners
26. Bridgepoint
27. EQT Partners
28. Madison Dearborn Partners
29. Charterhouse Capital Partners
30. Teachers' Private Capital
31. Thomas H. Lee Partners
32. Cinven
33. Onex
34. Riverstone Holdings
35. AXA Private Equity
36. JC Flowers & Co.
37. Oaktree Capital Management
38. BC Partners
39. Candover
40. Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe
41. Nordic Capital
42. WL Ross & Co.
43. Lindsay Goldberg
44. Sun Capital Partners
45. NGP Energy Capital Management
46. AlpInvest Partners
47. Kelso & Co.
48. Citi Alternative Investments
49. Marfin Investment Group
50. MatlinPatterson