BC Partners, a London-based private equity firm with over $40bn in AUM, has agreed to sell Forno d’Asolo Group, an Italian manufacturer and distributor of frozen bakery products valued at €1.1bn ($1.2bn), to a Investindustrial, a European mid-market private equity firm, and Sammontana, an ice cream manufacturer.
A $2bn bond sale from UK insurance broker The Ardonagh Group, whose major shareholders include Madison Dearborn Partners and HPS Investment Partners, will be managed by a group of Wall Street banks led by Morgan Stanley and The Goldman Sachs Group instead of a potentially record-breaking $5bn private credit loan,
Aquiline Capital Partners, a private investment firm investing in financial services, healthcare and technology with over $10bn in AUM, has made a majority investment in Health Prime International, a provider of revenue cycle management solutions for physician practices.
Abu Dhabi Global Market, the city’s international financial centre, embarked on a trade mission to the US last week, in response to “unprecedented demand” from major US-based global asset managers in the hedge fund, private equity and venture capital space.
Global private equity firm OpenGate Capital has completed its previously announced acquisition of Player One Amusement Group from Cineplex, a leading Canadian entertainment and media company.
Arlington Capital Partners, a private investment firm specialising in government regulated industries, has agreed to sell J&J Worldwide Services, a provider of essential, preventative property maintenance activities to the US Federal Government, to CBRE Group.
French skincare company L’Occitane may be snapped up by alternative investment giant Blackstone, according to a report by Bloomberg citing people familiar with the matter.
Pacific Century Group (PCG), a Hong Kong-based private investment firm founded and chaired by billionaire Richard Li, is looking into the divestment of its majority stake in PineBridge Investments, a $157bn asset manager based in New York, according to a report by Reuters.
Golub Capital, a US direct lender and credit manager with over $60bn in AUM, has appointed Camilla Hunter, who was most recently a Senior Associate in the European finance practice of law firm Shearman & Sterling, as European Lending Counsel. She will be based in the firm’s London office.
A debate in the UK’s House of Lords saw peers raise concerns over private equity ‘profiteering’, following a report by the Observer last December revealing that investments by private equity firms in children’s care homes in England have doubled since 2018.
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