Platinum Equity

US private equity company
Organization business Q787239
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Platinum Equity

Summary

Platinum Equity is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,437 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Platinum Equity is in the country of United States[3].
  • Platinum Equity is in the country of US[4].
  • Platinum Equity's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • Platinum Equity's instance of is recorded as enterprise[6].
  • Platinum Equity's founder is recorded as Tom Gores[7].
  • Platinum Equity's headquarters location is recorded as Beverly Hills[8].
  • Platinum Equity's child organization or unit is recorded as Platinum Equity (United Kingdom)[9].
  • Platinum Equity's child organization or unit is recorded as Leaders Romans Group[10].
  • Platinum Equity's child organization or unit is recorded as McGraw-Hill Education[11].
  • Platinum Equity's industry is recorded as private equity[12].
  • 1995 marks the founding of Platinum Equity[13].
  • 1997-12-08 marks the founding of Platinum Equity[14].
  • Platinum Equity's official website is recorded as https://www.platinumequity.com/[15].
  • Platinum Equity's director / manager is recorded as Tom Gores[16].
  • Platinum Equity's product or material produced is recorded as investment[17].
  • Platinum Equity's legal form is recorded as limited liability company[18].
  • Platinum Equity's legal form is recorded as HZEH[19].
  • Platinum Equity's owner of is recorded as Americatel[20].
  • Platinum Equity's owner of is recorded as Oregon Tool, Inc.[21].
  • Platinum Equity's owner of is recorded as Aventiv Technologies[22].
  • Platinum Equity's owner of is recorded as McGraw-Hill Education[23].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 5493007FPCEZLSHG4E71[24]

  • Registered legal name: Platinum Equity, LLC[25]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[26]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[27]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): HZEH[28]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[29]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[30]

  • Entity created: 1997-12-08[31]

  • LEI first registered: 2016-10-21[32]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-06-23[33]

  • LEI next renewal: 2021-03-06[34]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[35]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[36]

  • Authority entity ID: 2829764[37]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[38]

Body

Founding

Platinum Equity's founder is recorded as Tom Gores[7]. Recorded inception include 1995[13] and 1997-12-08[14].

Leadership

Platinum Equity's director / manager is recorded as Tom Gores[16].

Operations

Platinum Equity's headquarters location is recorded as Beverly Hills[8]. Subsidiaries include it (United Kingdom)[9]; Leaders Romans Group[10], a private company limited by shares[39], in United Kingdom[40], founded in 2016[41], headquartered in Berkshire[42]; and McGraw-Hill Education[11], a business[43], in United States[44], founded in 1888[45], headquartered in New York City[46].

Industry

Platinum Equity's industry is recorded as private equity[12].

Ownership

Platinum Equity's product or material produced is recorded as investment[17].

Why It Matters

Platinum Equity ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,437 views/month).[2] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . platinumequity.com. platinumequity.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . platinumequity.com. Retrieved . platinumequity.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . platinumequity.com. platinumequity.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Global LEI Index. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . platinumequity.com. platinumequity.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . platinumequity.com. Retrieved . platinumequity.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . platinumequity.com. platinumequity.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [24] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [27] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [35] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [36] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [37] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [38] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [43] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [44] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [47] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Imported from → —
    Country → United States, US
    Logo image → Platinum-Equity-logo.png
    Child organization or unit → Platinum Equity (United Kingdom), Leaders Romans Group, McGraw-Hill Education
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