The private equity sector has its sights set on the US National Football League, with several firms quietly preparing funds that would exclusively make NFL investments to comply with potential ownership pre-conditions, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Global private equity investment firm CVC will acquire a majority stake in World of Talents, an international platform of human resources companies specialising in bottleneck professions and talent management, from Belgian private equity firm Baltisse.
The world’s largest private equity firm Blackstone has reported a 1% year-on-year increase in first-quarter distributable earnings – the cash used to pay dividends to shareholders – to $1.27bn from $1.25bn in Q1 2024, according to a report by Reuters.
Shares of Esprit increased by 24% to HKD0.26 ($0.03) on Thursday morning, marking a 39% gain since the company announced its discussions with a potential investor last week, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
Unigestion, an independent asset manager specialising in mid-market private equity transactions, has appointed Jordan Dimmock as Senior Vice President within its global secondaries team. He will be based in London.
Private investment house Ardian has partially exited its investment in Planisware, a B2B SaaS software provider to the project economy industry, following the company’s IPO. Planisware’s Co-Founders have retained a majority stake in the business.
Independent investment management firm DTCP has closed its Digital Infrastructure Vehicle II (DIV II) and its associated vehicles at approximately €1.6bn, reaching its fundraising target and closing at almost eight times larger than its predecessor fund.
One Equity Partners (OEP) has completed the sale of Walki Group Oy, a European supplier of packaging and engineered materials solutions, to Japanese paper products technology company Oji Group.
Software-focused private equity firm Sunstone Partners has invested in Accuhealth, a healthcare technology company providing remote patient monitoring and chronic care management solutions.
Alter Domus, a provider of tech-enabled fund administration, private debt and corporate services for the alternative investment industry, has gone live on Temenos’ automated Multifonds fund management platform.
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