Description Charterhouse Capital Partners is a private equity firm that specializes in buyouts of European companies in a variety of industries. It focuses on commercial, financial, industrial, and service firms in Western Europe valued from E400 million to E4 billion (approximately $575 million to $6 billion). The firm has invested in more than 130 enterprises since raising its first investment fund in 1982. It closed its ninth fund, worth E4 billion ($6 billion), in 2009. Investors include pension funds, funds of funds, insurance companies, government agencies, banks, and endowments.