Strategic Value Partners, LLC and its affiliates, a global alternative investment firm with over $18 bn of AUM, has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of APCOA, Europe’s leading parking infrastructure operator.

Hildred Capital Management , a healthcare-focused private equity firm, has announced it will be acquiring Hello Bello,  an American brand of premium, affordable baby and family care products.

One Equity Partners, a middle market private equity firm, has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Walki Holding Oy, a pan-European supplier of sustainable packaging and engineered materials solutions, to Oji Holdings Corporation, a Japanese paper products technology company.

Stonepeak, a US based infrastructure investor, will be taking Textainer, a company that focuses on purchasing, leasing, and resale of marine cargo containers, private in a $2.1bn deal, according to a report by Reuters.

Italy’s Audit Court does not find the terms of transaction in the sale of Telecom Italia SpA’s phone network to KKR & Co adequate, but it has not yet blocked the deal, according to a report by Bloomberg.

In the first nine months of 2023, buyout made only $584bn from selling companies outright or taking them public – $100bn short of what the industry raised in the same period last year, according to a report by the Financial Times.