DWS Group GmbH & Co. KGaA offers asset management services in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and the Asia Pacific. The company's products and solutions cover equities, fixed income, cash, real estate, infrastructure, and private equity, as well as a range of sustainable investments. Within private equity, the firm specializes in co-investment, emerging markets, small and medium-sized companies, direct buyout, secondaries PE markets and structured capital solutions to private equity firms. The firm typical private equity investments include follow-on equity capital to fund M&A for an existing portfolio company, taking a minority interest in a portfolio company to allow for partial liquidity or providing flexible capital for continuation situations around a single asset. The firm also takes majority stakes in its portfolio companies. Within private equity, the firm typically invests in North America and Europe in seasoned, performing assets. It serves retail and institutional investors. The company is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. DWS Group GmbH & Co. KGaA is a subsidiary of DB Beteiligungs-Holding GmbH.