Private company

Leonard Green & Partners

Logo: Leonard Green & Partners, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

American private equity investment firm

Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. (LGP) is an American private equity investment firm founded in 1989 and based in Los Angeles. The firm specializes in private equity investments. LGP has invested in over 95 companies since its inception, including Petco and The Container Store.2 It was founded by Leonard I. Green.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1989Founded1

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Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. (LGP) is an American private equity investment firm founded in 1989 and based in Los Angeles. The firm specializes in private equity investments. LGP has invested in over 95 companies since its inception, including Petco and The Container Store.2

Corporate structure

Leonard Green & Partners sits at the top of its group. 111 entities, 10 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Leonard Green & Partners Los Angeles
    • BJ's Wholesale Club Subsidiary · Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States
    • JoAnn Fabrics Subsidiary · Hudson
    • Leslie's Pool Supplies Subsidiary · Phoenix
    • Life Time Subsidiary · Chanhassen
      • Athlinks Inc. Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • ChronoTrack Administrator LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • ChronoTrack Holdings LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • ChronoTrack Mexico, S. DE R.I. DE C.V. Subsidiary · Mexico
      • ChronoTrack Systems Europe B.V. Subsidiary · Netherlands
      • Healthy Way of Life I, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life II, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life III, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life IV, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life IX, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life V, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life VI, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life VII, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life VIII, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life X, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life XI, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life XII, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life XIII, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life XIV, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life XIX, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life XV, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life XVI, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life XVII, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life XVIII, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Healthy Way of Life XX, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • and 67 more
    • Lucky Brand Jeans Subsidiary · Vernon
    • The Container Store Subsidiary · Coppell, Texas, United States
      • Elfa International Malmö, Sweden
      • C Studio Manufacturing Inc. Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Elfa Danmark A/S Subsidiary · Denmark
      • Elfa Deutschland GmbH Subsidiary · Germany
      • Elfa Doors AB Subsidiary · Sweden
      • Elfa Finland OY Subsidiary · Finland
      • Elfa Manufacturing Poland Sp. Zo.o Subsidiary · Poland
      • Elfa Manufacturing Sweden AB Subsidiary · Sweden
      • Elfa Norge A/S Subsidiary · Norway
      • Elfa Sverige AB Subsidiary · Sweden
      • TCS Gift Card Services, LLC Subsidiary · Virginia, United States
      • THE CONTAINER STORE, INC. Subsidiary · Coppell, Texas, United States

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries listed in Exhibit 21 of annual reports filed with the SEC; subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Leonard Green & Partners reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

Founded by Leonard I. Green in 1989.1

Leonard Green was founded by Leonard I. Green in 1989 after separating from Gibbons, Green and van Amerongen Ltd. (Gibbons Green), a bank which he had co-founded in 1969 with Edward Gibbons and Lewis van Amerongen. Leonard Green died in 2002, leaving the firm to be run by John G. Danhakl, Peter J. Nolan and Jonathan D. Sokoloff.

The firm's predecessor, Gibbons Green, was among the earliest practitioners of the leveraged and management buyout. Gibbons Green purchased several companies, including Purex Industries in 1982, Budget Rent a Car from Transamerica in 1986 and Kash n' Karry Food Stores in 1988. The company planned to purchase Argonaut Group Inc. in 1987, but withdrew from the buyout.

The dissolution of Gibbons Green and the formation of Leonard Green & Partners is attributed by some to the failure of two buyouts: Ohio Mattress Company and Sheller-Globe Corporation.

In 2007, LGP acquired 17% shares of Whole Foods Market in a PIPE investment deal, "one of the best investments in our firm’s history" according to firm manager Jonathan Sokoloff, because it enabled LGP to acquire J.Crew, BJ's Wholesale Club and Jo-Ann Stores with the cash made from Whole Foods.

In 2019, LGP named John Baumer and Evan Hershberg co-heads of the Jade Fund.

In March 2020, partners at LGP committed to plans for a $10 million employee-assistance fund for employees of Leonard Green portfolio companies impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In March 2025, Leonard Green & Partners won PE Hub's Comprehensive Trade of the Year Award for the sale of $18.25 billion in SRS to Home Depot.

From Wikipedia’s article on Leonard Green & Partners, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Leadership

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Products and brands

  • leveraged buyout

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Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

Also owns

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Timeline

  1. 1989Founded Founded1

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