Blackstone has acquired a majority stake in SPANX, Inc, a ‘mission-driven’ womenswear brand founded by Sara Blakely in 2000, at a valuation of USD1.2 billion – with Blakely maintaining a significant equity stake in the business. Blakely, along with SPANX’s existing senior management team, will continue to oversee daily operations,
Ancala Partners (Ancala), an investor in mid-market infrastructure in Europe, and Fiera Infrastructure Inc. (Fiera Infrastructure), a Toronto-based investment firm focused on the infrastructure asset class, has completed the acquisition of Augean plc (Augean or the Company), for a total consideration of approximately GBP390 million. Augean is a highly regarded
Mercer Global Advisors, Inc (Mercer Advisors), a national Registered Investment Adviser (RIA), has acquired Lake Point Wealth Management, LLC dba Lake Point Advisory Group (Lake Point), a wealth management firm located in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas.
Professional services firm JTC has acquired perfORM Due Diligence Services (perfORM), a provider of due diligence services to a diverse base of UK and international asset allocators and investment managers. Launched in 2019, perfORM was set up as an Operational Due Diligence (ODD) business to provide solutions to asset allocators
Global tax software provider Sovos is to acquire Digital Planet, which provides cloud compliance solutions for continuous transaction controls (CTCs), including e-invoicing, e-receipts, e-delivery note and e-ledger. Upon completion of this acquisition, Sovos will expand its Istanbul-based product development center of excellence in support of a growing base of channel
Fremman has acquired a majority stake in Palex, a distributor of high value-added MedTech equipment and solutions, from Ergon Capital Partners IV SCSp (Ergon) and Corpfin Capital (Corpfin), who will both remain as minority shareholders in the business. Headquartered in Barcelona (Spain) and founded in 1955 by the Knuth family,
KKR, together with its co-invest partner, Dundee Partners, the investment office of the Hendel family, has purchased the KMR Music Royalties II portfolio (Fund II) from KCL for approximately USD1.1 billion.
Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), a private equity firm based in St Louis, has acquired CommonLook by T-Base Communications, a TSCP portfolio company. CommonLook is a provider of software and services, enabling electronic document accessibility and remediates more than one million pages annually for more than 600 customers. T-Base simplifies
VTS, a leasing, marketing, asset management, and tenant experience platform, is to acquire Lane, a workplace experience platform used by several top landlords including Brookfield, Oxford, and Hines. With the acquisition, VTS has now invested hundreds of millions of dollars in tenant experience, more than all other proptech companies combined.
Funds advised by Searchlight Capital Partners (Searchlight), a global private investment firm, are to acquire a majority stake in Integrated Power Services (IPS), a specialist in industrial aftermarket services. Searchlight acquired the Company from funds advised by Odyssey Investment Partners (Odyssey). Terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
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