JLL vs CG Comparison

Jones Lang LaSalle is a global commercial real estate services and investment management company that helps clients buy, build, occupy, manage, and invest in property across office, industrial, retail, multifamily, hotel, and data center assets. For over 200 years, clients have trusted JLL, a Fortune 500 company, tracing its roots to firms including LaSalle Partners (founded in Chicago in 1968) and the centuries-old London firm Jones Lang Wootton, which merged in 1999 to form the modern JLL. Today the firm is a leading global commercial real estate services and investment management company with operations in over 80 countries, and a global workforce of more than 113,000, as of early 2026.

Carlyle Group is one of the world's largest alternative-asset managers, with $476.9 billion in total AUM, including $336.8 billion in fee-earning AUM, at the end of 2025. The company has three core business segments: global private equity, which includes its private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources offerings (with $163.6 billion in total AUM and $101.4 billion in fee-earning AUM), global credit ($211.3 billion/$169.5 billion), and investment/fund solutions, known as Carlyle AlphInvest ($101.0 billion/$65.9 billion). The firm primarily serves institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals. Carlyle operates through 29 offices across five continents, serving more than 3,100 active carry fund investors from 87 countries.