The Big Ten Conference is evaluating interest from private equity firms, a move that marks a potential shift from the basketball leagues past resistance to outside investment in college sports, according to a report from Sportico on Thursday.
Blackstone has reported stronger-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter of last year, fuelled by a resurgence in dealmaking and early signs of stabilisation in the troubled commercial real estate sector, according to a report by Reuters.
NGP Energy Capital Management is considering selling Camino Natural Resources, one of the largest privately held natural gas producers in Oklahoma’s Anadarko Basin, in a deal that could value the company at around $2bn, including debt, according to a report by Reuters.
Kainos Capital, a food and consumer-focused private equity firm, has promoted Claire Bissot to Managing Director. As leader of Human Resources and Talent on the firm’s Operations Team, Bissot serves as a strategic partner to portfolio companies.
Blue Sage Capital, a Texas-based private equity firm that has been investing in lower middle-market companies since 2002, has held the final close of Blue Sage Capital IV at $618m, including a substantial commitment from the General Partner.
Blackstone has formed a global distribution partnership with Deutsche Bank, excluding the bank’s home market of Germany, to expand access to its evergreen private equity fund, Blackstone Private Equity, according to a report by Citywire.
AnaCap, a private equity investor specialising in investment in services, technology and software businesses within the European financial ecosystem, has closed its acquisition of a majority stake in Italian insurance broking platform Edge Group.
Private equity giant KKR has taken a 12% stake in Henry Schein and reached an agreement to add independent directors to the company’s board, the medical and dental supplies distributor announced Wednesday, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
Nearly three-quarters (74%) of US pension plan managers are anticipating a rise in private equity distributions over the next three years, according to a report by Banking Exchange citing a new survey by financial software specialist Ortec Finance.
Tikehau Capital, the global alternative asset management group Tikehau Capital’s flagship private equity decarbonisation strategy, is to make a majority investment in German data centre technical advisory firm TTSP HWP.
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