The Carlyle Group Inc., an investment firm with a diverse portfolio of direct and fund of fund investments, has announced its focus on management-led/leveraged buyouts, privatizations, and divestitures, among others. It invests across Corporate Private Equity, Real Assets, Global Market Strategies, and Solutions, with a particular focus on the industrial, agribusiness, ecological, and fintech sectors, as well as aerospace, defense, automotive, and consumer and retail sectors. The firm seeks to make investments in growing and overleveraged businesses, holding its investments for up to six years. The Carlyle Group seeks investments in regions across Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, Asia Pacific, Soviet Union, Central-Eastern Europe, and Israel, and prefers to take a majority or a minority stake. With offices in five continents, The Carlyle Group Inc. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.