European private equity firm Permira has agreed a deal to acquire British biopharmaceutical services company Ergomed, a provider of clinical research and trial management services, for around £703.1m ($886.40m), according to a report by Reuters.
Discovery Education, a global education technology company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, has agreed to acquire DreamBox Learning, an education technology provider serving more than six million students and 600,000 educators in the US.Â
Private equity firm Alvarez & Marsal Capital has joined the growing number of private equity and hedge fund firms succumbing to the lure of the Sunshine State with plans to open a new office in West Palm Beach, according to a report by Bloomberg.
HIG Capital (HIG), a global alternative investment firm with $58bn of capital under management, has sold a portion of its stake in Eletromidia, a Brazil-based out-of-home (OOH) media company, to Latin American media conglomerate Grupo Globo (Globo).
HDFC Capital Advisors, a division of India’s biggest bank HDFC Bank, is looking to raise up to $2bn for a new private credit fund that will focus on deals in the real estate sector, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Barclays is planning a push into the $1.5tn private debt market and has allocated cash from its balance sheet to hold corporate loans and allow it to compete directly with private credit funds, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Private equity firms TA Associates and Warburg Pincus are exploring a sale of portfolio company Procare Solutions, a provider of child-care management software, that could value the business at nearly $2bn, including debt, according to a report by Reuters.
Balance Point Capital Advisors (Balance Point), via the Balance Point Capital Partners V fund, has made a follow-on investment in Concord Servicing Corporation (Concord), a portfolio company of Inverness Graham Investments (IGI).
PAM Group, an occupational health and corporate health services provider backed by private equity firm LDC, has continued its expansion with the acquisition of Corporate Health Ireland (CHI), which has 100 staff and annual revenues of €11m.
European specialist growth investor Verdane, through its impact fund Idun, has made an investment of up to €26m in UrbanVolt, a specialist in clean energy technology with operations in Ireland and the United Kingdom.Â
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