Deals
Gulf Capital, one of the largest private equity firms investing from the GCC to the rest of Asia, has completed the sale of 100% of AmCan, a distributor of many of the top global sports nutrition brands across the MENA region.
European private equity investor Perwyn has made a strategic investment in Crosta & Mollica, a B-Corp certified branded grocery business focused on Italian food, in partnership with the company’s founder James Orr.
Thoma Bravo, a software investment firm with $134bn in assets under management, has completed its strategic growth investment in BlueMatrix, an end-to-end content creation and distribution platform for investment research providers.
Liberty Hall Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in businesses serving the global aerospace and defence industries, has merged existing portfolio company Comply365, with Vistair.
Venture investment firm Thrive Capital, a major investor in OpenAI, is gearing up to raise at least $3bn in additional funding for tech investments amid a general downturn in investment in the sector, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Brookfield Asset Management is to acquire American Tower Corp’s (ATC) loss-making Indian operations for $2.5bn, becoming one of the country’s largest operator of telecom towers in the process, according to a report by Reuters.
The appetite for risk among alternative fund managers is set to expand over the next 12 months as companies focus on acquisition opportunities amid expectations that inflation and interest rates will fall, according to a new research from Ocorian.
A consortium of investment firms including Macquarie Capital, TA Associates and Stirling Square Capital Partners, looking to secure a SEK10.1bn (£780m) take-private deal for Swedish construction industry software firm Byggfakta Group Nordic HoldCo AB (Byggfakta).
Private equity funds managed by Blackstone are to acquire a majority stake in Sony Payment Services Inc, one of Japan’s leading payment service providers, from Sony Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group.
Renovus Capital Partners, a lower middle-market private equity firm focussed on the knowledge and talent industries has acquired Behavioral Framework, a provider of applied behaviour analysis therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder.
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
