Canadian private equity firm Brookfield is reportedly considering a €7bn ($7.4bn) takeover bid for Spanish pharmaceutical company Grifols and is completing due diligence on the plasma-based drugmaker, according to a report by El Confidencial.

European mid-market private equity firm Inflexion is to acquire Finanzen.net Group (Finanzen), a digital broker and market financial information portal in the DACH region, from Axel Springer, in partnership with the company’s founders.

Garnett Station Partners (Garnett Station), a New York-based private investment firm managing over $2.3bn in assets, has made a strategic growth investment in Bristol Environmental (Bristol), a provider of environmental remediation and abatement services.

Global investment firms KKR and Dragoneer Investment Group have completed their acquisition of Instructure Holdings, a provider of education technology including the Canvas learning management platform, in a deal valued at approximately $4.8bn.

New Heritage Capital (Heritage) has exited its investment in Continental Services (Continental) after the corporate food service provider was acquired by Morgan Street Holdings, an investment group focused on acquiring business services and consumer product companies.

BGF, which makes minority, non-controlling investments in business in the UK and Ireland, has made a strategic investment in BWP Group (BWP), a leading marketing and brand agency specialising in elevating destination assets.

HighPost Capital, a PE firm focused on the consumer, sports, media, and technology sectors, has partnered with Charlesbank Capital Partners to invest in Front Row Group, an ecommerce agency providing outsourced marketplace management services.

Software and technology-focused private equity firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to sell a Qlik minority stake to a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), in a deal that values the data analytics company at $10bn.