MidOcean Partners, a New York-based alternative asset manager specialising in middle-market private equity and alternative credit investments, has exited its position in Nutrabolt, an active health and wellness company.

DWS, the asset management arm of Deutsche Bank AG, is exploring the possible sale of its private equity secondaries business as part of a wider company plan to withdraw from areas of operation where it currently lacks scale, according to a report by Bloomberg. The report cites unnamed sources as

Avant, a credit-first financial technology company that provides access to financial solutions to underserved non-prime consumers, has secured $250 million of corporate debt and redeemable preferred equity from Ares Management Alternative Credit funds .

Arlington Capital Partners, a Washington, DC-based private equity firm, is to sell Octo, a pure-play digital modernisation solutions provider to the US federal government, to IBM. 

New figures from Datasite, a virtual data room provider for mergers and acquisitions due diligence, reveal that M&A deals are up by 3% when compared to the same period last year. Datasite, which facilitates approximately 13,000 deals annually, compiled the figures based on the deals taking place on its platform

KKR is to acquire Clinisupplies, a specialist in continence care products in the UK, from Healthium. Financial details of the transaction, which will see Clinisupplies’ existing management team continue to hold a minority position in the business, have not been disclosed. KKR is investing in Clinisupplies through KKR Health Care

A secondary funding round led by Square Peg and Wellington Management has seen the valuation of e-commerce tech company Rokt increase to $2.4 billion, less than 12 months after the firm raised $325 million in a Series E fundraising round.

China Investment Corporation, the Carlyle Group, and CVC Capital Partners, have opened preliminary talks with Eni over a deal for gas and oil producer Neptune Energy for around $5 billion to $6 billion, according to a report by Reuters.

Private equity firm, Cinven’s seventh fund, in partnership with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, is to acquire and combine group.ONE and dogado group, to create a pan-European one-stop-shop provider of online presence solutions for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and small-office home-offices.