Many private equity portfolios are staging a post-recession comeback and are outperforming their non PE-owned industry peers, according to the latest study of the European private equity industry by AT Kearny. The report analyses PE transactions in four core European markets – the United Kingdom, DACH (Germany, Austria & Switzerland)

BNY Mellon will be the first global custodian to make the Burgiss Group’s new private capital benchmarking service, Private iQ, available to institutional clients.   Private iQ provides information and tools to help clients analyse the behaviour and performance of private capital markets.  Subscribers will be able to benchmark private

TA Associates is to acquire a 54.4% interest in Stadion Money Management, LLC, a rapidly growing investment management firm, via several of its private equity funds. In connection with the closing of TA Associates’ investment, a new equity incentive plan will be created to broaden ownership among Stadion’s key investment

HarbourVest-managed secondary funds together with HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited (HVPE), a closed-end investment company, will, through an acquisition vehicle, make a public offer for all bearer shares of Absolute Private Equity, Ltd (Absolute) currently in circulation. Absolute is an investment company incorporated in Switzerland and listed on SIX Swiss

Eurazeo and OFI Private Equity Capital have reached an agreement for the acquisition by Eurazeo of OFI Private Equity Capital, a NYSE Euronext-listed French investment company specialising in SME majority investments.   Under the terms of the agreement, MACIF, Olivier Millet and the other main shareholders of OFI Private Equity

Summit Partners and TA Associates have signed definitive documentation to invest USD350 million to recapitalize online gaming platform specialist Bigpoint and position the company for continued strong global growth.   “The investment by TA Associates and Summit Partners is a validation of Bigpoint’s leadership position within the gaming industry, and

Angelo, Gordon & Co’s Private Equity Group has partnered with the founders of Firebirds International, LLC (Firebirds) to acquire the company, which owns and operates 18 Firebirds Wood Fired Grill locations nationwide. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Firebirds – which features an American grill-focused menu – was founded

SPA Future Thinking has acquired the Munro Group, which incorporates FDS International and Maven Research, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition, which follows the merger of SPA Market research and Future Thinking (formerly the Oxford Research Agency) in September 2010, makes SPA Future Thinking the UK’s leading independent market researcher,