Platinum Equity Advisors, a US-based private equity form focussed on leveraged buyout investments of established companies in the US, Europe and Asia is to acquire aircraft landing gear specialist Héroux-Devtek Inc for $1.35bn, according to a report by Canadian Press.
The UK has overtaken India as the third largest venture capital market in the world, now accounting for 6% of global investment as UK companies raised £72bn between 2021 and 2023, according to the British Business Bank’s annual Small Business Equity Tracker.
Tortoise Capital’s private credit platform has spun out of the SEC-registered asset manager, and will operate as a standalone business comprising the investment and management team of Tortoise’s private credit division.
JP Morgan Private Capital, the venture and growth equity division of JP Morgan Asset Management, has added Joseph Siletto as a managing partner to its life sciences team, based in Boston, US.
Bain Capital, a US private investment firm with around $185bn of AUM, is to acquire wealth management software company Envestnet in a deal valued at $4.5bn, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
Global mergers and acquisitions activity has maintained the positive momentum achieved at the start of 2024, with deals completed during the second quarter improving upon the same period last year, according to research from WTW’s Quarterly Deal Performance Monitor.
European private equity firm Exponent will invest in Kingsbridge Healthcare Group, a private healthcare provider in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Astorg has closed the Normec Continuation Fund, capitalised with €1.4bn by lead investors CVC Secondary Partners, Pantheon, Lexington Partners and Eurazeo, alongside sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, asset managers and family offices.
AE Industrial Partners, a private equity firm specialising in national security, aerospace and industrial services, has held the final close of its third flagship private equity fund, AE Industrial Partners Fund III, at $1.28bn.
Fiera Capital, an independent global asset management firm with over $122.1bn in AUM as of 31 March, has launched its “all-seasons” small-to-mid cap growth strategy to European institutional and wholesale investors.
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