Deals
US financial services specialist private equity firm Estancia Capital Partners has acquired a minority stake in UK savings fintech Flagstone via a £108m ($138m) equity investment.
Global alternative investment firm HIG Capital is to sell its portfolio company, ICG Group, a provider of communication infrastructure services, to SPIE Group, a European specialist in multi-technical services in the areas of energy and communications.
Swiss private equity investment firm Partners Group is weighing up the options for its portfolio company VSB Group including a sale of the Germany based renewable energy company, according to a report by Reuters.
Quilvest Capital Partners, a $7bn global alternatives investment manager, has invested in Acuiti Labs, a consultancy specialising in optimisation of the quote-to-cash process.
Renewable energy producer Encavis, which runs wind and solar parks across Europe, is in discussions to be acquired by global buyout firm KKR & Co in a deal that could value the German company at more than €2bn, according to a report by Bloomberg.
A number of big-name buyout firms including Carlyle Group, CVC Capital Partners and KKR have all shown preliminary interest in striking a take-private deal to acquire Hong Kong-listed luggage maker Samsonite International, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund, which is managed by global investment manager Ninety One and operates within the multi-donor Private Infrastructure Development Group, has secured $294m in additional debt facilities, representing over half of the fund’s $500m target by 2025.
GREYKITE Investment Adviser, a newly launched private capital investment advisory firm led by Founder and CEO Michael Abel, has secured a strategic capital investment from Capital Constellation, a platform managed by global alternative asset manager Wafra, and Leucadia Asset Management, a diversified alternative asset management platform and a division of Jefferies Financial Group.
MiddleGround Capital, a Kentucky-based middle market private equity firm specialising in B2B industrial and specialty distribution companies across North America and Europe, has acquired IT8, a provider of engineering services.
Specialist global impact investment firm Blue Earth Capital has completed a $30m direct credit investment in Q Collection, a Singapore-headquartered vertically integrated apparel manufacturer with manufacturing operations in Bangladesh.
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