Global private equity firm Carlyle Group is closing in on a deal to acquire a majority stake in Thyssenkrupp’s Marine Systems business at a value of about €1.5bn ($1.6bn) including debt, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Private equity firms KKR & Co and Blackstone and hedge fund major Citadel are discussing ways to deal with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s crackdown on the financial industry’s use of disappearing messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The board of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest US pension fund, has voted to up its exposure to private equity and private credit by a combined $34bn in a bet that riskier asset classes will generate higher returns than stocks, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Pricoa Private Capital, a fund managed by Prudential Private Capital, the asset management arm of multinational insurance company Prudential Financial, has invested in TeacherActive, a UK education recruitment agency.
WH Equity Partners, a US private equity firm focused on growth investments and buyouts in the small and mid-cap sectors, has been launched by Senior Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer Peter Weinbach and Senior Managing Director Grant Harshbarger.
French private equity firm PAI Partners, through its PAI Mid-Market Fund, is to acquire a majority stake in global professional haircare platform Beautynova from BlueGem Capital Partners, a pan-European PE firm focused on non-discretionary consumer staples.
Middle market private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital has exited its investment in LPW Group Holdings, a designer of valves and other flow control products, through a sale of the business to Oaktree Capital Management.
Buyout private equity firms are having difficulty offloading companies and returning cash to investors, with direct lenders including Blackstone, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Neuberger Berman Group swooping in to provide cash, according to a report by Bloomberg.
New Mountain Capital, a New York-based private equity firm with $50bn in AUM, has acquired a majority stake in the US arm of Grant Thornton, the third largest accounting firm in the US outside of the Big Four – Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC.
Pan-European mid-market private equity investor Oakley Capital has acquired a majority stake in medical software provider Horizons Optical via its Oakley Capital Origin Fund I from Madrid-based Sherpa Capital.
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