US private investment major Carlyle Group doubled its fundraising efforts in the second quarter of the year, amassing over $12bn as part of a strategic turnaround initiative led by CEO Harvey Schwartz, according to a report by the Financial Times.
UK-based mid-market private equity investor Livingbridge has exited its investemnt in Habit Health through a sale to Five V Capital, marking the sixth exit for its 2016 vintage fund, Livingbridge 6.
BrightNight, a renewable power company serving utility, commercial and industrial customers, has secured a $440m investment from the infrastructure business at Goldman Sachs Alternatives.
Investment management firm TowerBrook Capital Partners’ acquisition of a majority stake in IDAK Food Group from Invision and Nord Holding, with private credit firm Hayfin Capital Management providing debt financing.
Mid-market private equity investor Equistone Partners Europe has made an investment in QuestGates, a UK provider of loss adjusting and claims services.
Mid-market private equity firm Bowmark Capital has invested in Turnkey IPS, a software provider to the insolvency industry.
Palico, a digital secondaries platform for trading smaller private capital fund stakes, has received regulatory approval from FINRA to become the first and only electronic trading system for LP-led secondary transactions.
US private equity major Carlyle Group is to sell Cogentrix Energy, one of the largest portfolios of natural gas power plants in the US, to Houston-based PE firm Quantum Capital Group, which specialises in energy investments, for $3bn, according to a report by the Financial Times.
A consortium of private equity firms comprising CVC Capital Partners, Nordic Capital and Platinum Ivy, are to acquire Hargreaves Lansdown in a deal that values the UK’s largest savings and investment platform at £5.4bn ($6.9bn), according to a report by Bloomberg.
Jefferies Financial Group has completed the previously announced sale of Italian wireless broadband provider OpNet’s operations to Wind Tre, a subsidiary of CK Hutchison Group Telecom Holdings.
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