Deals
Hg, a private investment firm focused on European and transatlantic software and services businesses, has made a significant investment in CUBE, a specialist in automated regulatory intelligence and regulatory change management technology.
Private equity major Apollo Global Management has made an $11bn offer to acquire Paramount Global’s Hollywood studio, Paramount Pictures, according to a report by Reuters citing an unnamed person with knowledge of the matter.
Global private equity firm Carlyle Group is closing in on a deal to acquire a majority stake in Thyssenkrupp’s Marine Systems business at a value of about €1.5bn ($1.6bn) including debt, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Pricoa Private Capital, a fund managed by Prudential Private Capital, the asset management arm of multinational insurance company Prudential Financial, has invested in TeacherActive, a UK education recruitment agency.
French private equity firm PAI Partners, through its PAI Mid-Market Fund, is to acquire a majority stake in global professional haircare platform Beautynova from BlueGem Capital Partners, a pan-European PE firm focused on non-discretionary consumer staples.
Middle market private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital has exited its investment in LPW Group Holdings, a designer of valves and other flow control products, through a sale of the business to Oaktree Capital Management.
New Mountain Capital, a New York-based private equity firm with $50bn in AUM, has acquired a majority stake in the US arm of Grant Thornton, the third largest accounting firm in the US outside of the Big Four – Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC.
Pan-European mid-market private equity investor Oakley Capital has acquired a majority stake in medical software provider Horizons Optical via its Oakley Capital Origin Fund I from Madrid-based Sherpa Capital.
Omni Partners has sold its majority stake in wellbeing and employee benefits provider Vivup to growth equity firm Great Hill Partners, with the transaction subject to FCA approval and expected to close in Q2 2024.
Healthcare-focused private equity firm DW Healthcare Partners has sold DermLite Holdco I, a portfolio company of its Founders Fund, to FotoFinder Systems, a portfolio company of Paris-based private equity firm EMZ Partners.
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
