Private equity firms Advent International and CVC Capital are teaming up to launch a joint bid to acquire Partner in Pet Food (PPF), a European animal food brand owned by Cinven, which is seeking around €2bn for the business, according to a report by The Financial Times.
Actis, a global investor in sustainable infrastructure, is to sell South African fibre network operator Octotel to a consortium of investors, led by African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) and also comprising STOA and Thebe Investment Corporation.
An uptick in demand for flexible working space has prompted Blackstone Inc to explore a sale of The Office Group, with the private investment firm having held informal talks with advisers over a potential £1.5bn sale of the business, according to a report by The Telegraph.
Private investment firm KKR is to acquire a majority stake in Avantus, a US developer of large utility-scale solar and solar-plus-storage projects. Following the close of the transaction, KKR and existing investor EIG, will be the sole equity investors in the company.
Mid-market private equity firm Montagu Private Equity has agreed a deal to acquire Johnson Matthey’s Medical Device Components business for a cash consideration of $700m (£550m) on a cash-free, debt-free basis.
Schroders Capital, the specialist private markets division of the Schroders Group, has appointed Ingo Heinen to the newly-created position of Global Head of Business Development and Product with responsibility for product evolution and development.
Private equity firm TA Associates is to make a strategic growth investment in SER, a global Intelligent Content Automation (ICA) software vendor in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market, replacing Carlyle as the company’s lead investor.
Unilever is hoping to attract private equity interest in its ice cream division, having announced plans to sell the business, which includes Wall’s, Magnum and Ben & Jerry’s, and is working with advisers to sound out potential purchasers, according to a report by the Financial Times.
An affiliate of HIG Capital, a global alternative investment firm with $60bn of capital under management, is to acquire the payroll and professional services business of Alight, in a deal worth up to $1.2bn.
Global allocators upped their alternative asset allocations – private equity, credit, real estate, real assets, infrastructure and hedge funds – to $172bn in 2023 a 19% increase from the $144bn seen in the previous year, according to a research commissioned by Vidrio Financial.
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