MiddleGround Capital has announced a series of firmwide promotions, including the elevation of Roland Veldhuijzen van Zanten (pictured) to Managing Director, as the operationally focused investor continues to scale its European and North American investment platform.
Private equity firms are increasingly relying on operational improvement strategies to drive returns as geopolitical volatility, elevated valuations and slower exit markets reshape deal dynamics across Europe, according to new research from Alvarez & Marsal.
Graphite Capital has agreed the sale of life sciences data and workflow platform Beacon to Corten Capital, in a deal that is expected to deliver of 4x cash return on the firm’s original investment in Hanson Wade in 2019.
British theatre operator ATG Entertainment is being lined up for a possible sale by its private equity owner Providence Equity Partners at a potential valuation in excess of £4bn ($5.38bn), according to a report by Reuters citing unnamed people familiar with the situation.
US utility group NextEra Energy has agreed to acquire oil and gas investment firm Caliber Resource Partners in a deal valued at around $1.3bn, while also forming a separate joint venture with Caliber’s private equity owner Quantum Capital Group, according to a report by Reuters.
A growing reliance on multi-layer continuation vehicles is leaving private equity assets in prolonged ownership structures, highlighting the industry’s struggle to exit investments through traditional sales or IPOs, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Australia’s financial watchdog Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has warned that private credit exposures linked to global market conditions are increasing, prompting a ramp-up in supervisory scrutiny across banks, insurers and superannuation funds, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Private equity firms KKR and Energy Capital Partners are considering raising their offer for Irish energy distributor DCC after the company rejected an earlier takeover proposal, according to a Bloomberg News report citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.
Eurazeo has completed the first close of its PME V fund at more than €1bn, marking a fundraising milestone broadly in line with the previous vintage and underscoring continued institutional appetite for European mid-market buyouts.
Blackstone Inc has entered into a strategic joint venture with Google Cloud to develop a new US-based AI infrastructure company focused on delivering compute-as-a-service powered by Tensor Processing Units (TPUs).
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