SoftBank Group Corp is in talks to acquire the 25% stake in chip designer Arm it does not already directly own from Vision Fund 1 (VF1), a $100 billion investment fund it raised in 2017, according to a report by Reuters.

Private equity firms are positioning to capitalise on the National Health Service’s long waiting lists and other operational challenges by acquiring numerous UK healthcare companies over the past two years, according to a report by the Financial Times.

Over 80% US investment banks and private equity firms are expecting a rebound in deal activity over the next 12 months, according to a survey by international management consultancy CIL for its Mid-Market M&A Pulse Check 2023.

Agilitas Private Equity (Agilitas), a pan-European mid-market private equity firm, is to sell Denmark-based environmental services specialist the Reconor Group (Reconor) to a fund advised by Basalt Infrastructure Partners LLP (Basalt).

Mid-market buyout firm Novacap has acquired Cadent, a provider of platform-based converged TV advertising solutions and one of the largest independent platforms for unified audience-targeting across connected television, traditional TV, and digital advertising. 

AGIC Capital (AGIC), a growth-oriented European-Asian private equity firm with $2.2bn of assets under management, has made a growth investment in Singapore-headquartered AP Technologies (AP Tech), an emerging medical device contract manufacturer.

Funds advised by growth-focused private equity investment firms TA Associates (TA) and Warburg Pincus have acquired a majority stake in Epassi Group (Epassi), from majority shareholder and tech-focused PE firm Bregal Milestone. 

Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP) and Thoma Bravo have completed the sale of Syntellis Performance Solutions (Syntellis), a provider of enterprise performance management (EPM) software, data and intelligence solutions, to Roper Technologies, in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.4bn