Lower mid-market private equity firm WestBridge has completed the sale of APEM Group to Applus+ Group. The sale marks the third exit from WestBridge Fund II and delivers a 11.5x multiple.
Geopolitical tensions, tariff uncertainty, and ongoing economic challenges throughout last year meant that total private equity investment activity fell against the previous year, according to the latest UK Private Equity Review from KPMG UK, with the potential for a resurgence of activity this year as firms look to invest high
Patria Investments Ltd is preparing to launch a new private credit fund targeting Latin America, as the firm looks to expand its footprint in the region’s growing alternative lending market, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Family office Parabellum Investments has sold business process outsourcing business Parseq to business services provider Paragon Group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
A consortium led by Carlyle Group Inc has agreed to acquire a 73% stake in India’s Nido Home Finance Ltd for approximately INR21bn ($232m), according to a report by Bloomberg.
Fears of mounting stress in private credit are not borne out by the data, according to a Bloomberg interview with Hamilton Lane Co-CEO Erik Hirsch, who said defaults remain low and leverage levels stable across portfolios.
Concerns over the impact of artificial intelligence on the software sector could hit the $1.5tn US loan market, according to a report by Reuters citing Morgan Stanley. The bank said software represents around 16% of the US loan market, equivalent to roughly $235bn.
Apollo Global Management plans to commit around $6bn to its recently launched sports-focused investment unit, Apollo Sports Capital (ASC), a significant increase on the original $5bn the firm said it was aiming to deploy, according to a report by Sportico.
Tech-focused buyout firm Thoma Bravo is looking to capitalise on the ongoing software market downturn, which some observers have dubbed the “SaaSpocalypse”, on the back of a disconnect between high-quality firms and riskier software providers, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Apollo Global Management is close to finalising a roughly $3.4bn loan to an investment vehicle that plans to purchase advanced chips from Nvidia and lease the hardware to xAI, according to a report by The Information.
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