Ara Partners, a private equity firm that specialises in industrial decarbonisation investments, has acquired a majority interest in Wattstor, a provider of automated carbon reduction and electricity cost-saving technology for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and mid-market industrial and commercial (I&C) end users.  janom, Wattstor’s main existing investor, is to

The number of M&A deals targeting UK financial advisers and wealth managers has risen 11% from 398 to a record high of 440 in the past year, according to new data from international law firm Mayer Brown, with the increase being driven in large part by private-equity-backed ‘consolidators’.  These firms

Lovell Minnick Partners, a private equity firm with a 20-plus year track record of partnering with growth-oriented companies, is to acquire a majority stake in Definiti LLC, a retirement services firm that supports more than 8,000 workplace organisations and 10,000 retirement plans across the US. 

GI Partners, a US-based private investment firm focussed on data infrastructure businesses, has acquired Rise Broadband, a provider of broadband services across 16 states in the US. GI Partners will support Rise Broadband’s rollout of fibre-to-the-home services for rural American homes and businesses. Based in Englewood, Colorado, Rise Broadband is

Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in mid-market companies, has sold Apex Companies, a provider of end-to-end environmental consulting and engineering solutions, to Morgan Stanley Capital Partners.  Financial terms of the deal, which will see Sentinel maintain a minority position in the business post-closing, have not been

Blackstone is one of a number of private equity firms considering making a bid to acquire Cvent Holding Corp, a US-based provider of software for the events management sector, in a deal that could value the business at up to $4 billion, according to a report by Reuters. News of

MiddleGround Capital, an operationally focused private equity firm that makes control investments in North American middle market B2B industrial and specialty distribution companies, has acquired Megatech, a new digital manufacturing platform focused on computerised numerical control machining of highly-complex, highly-precise, low volume engineered parts.