Deals
Global private investment firm HarbourView Equity Partners has agreed to purchase select recorded music and publishing assets of multi-platinum selling, Grammy and Golden Globe nominated recording artist Wiz Khalifa (Wiz).
Private equity firm PAI Partners is to acquire a majority stake in Infra Group, a multi-disciplinary network infrastructure services provider, joining current investors ICG, Andera Partners and the management team led by Tom Vendelmans.
Canadian private investment firm Brookfield has agreed to acquire the 80% stake it doesn’t already own in annuities provider American Equity Investment Life Holding (AEL) in a deal that values the business at $4.3bn.
Increased regulation and financial market volatility are fuelling M&A disputes in an uncertain deal market, with dealmakers identifying the digital assets and services sector, and ESG factors as dispute hotspots, according to Berkeley Research Group’s Midyear M&A Disputes Report 2023.
Private equity firm GTCR is closing in on the acquisition of a majority stake in the merchant business of payment processing company Fidelity National Information Services Inc in a leveraged deal valuing the division at between $15bn and $20bn, according to a report by Reuters.
Saudi Arabia is hoping to attract private equity investment as part of a push to enhance the status and global profile of its top domestic football competition, The Saudi Pro League, according to a report by Bloomberg.
DD Group, a portfolio company of private investment firm Sun European Partners, which focuses on business services, consumer, healthcare, industrial, and technology sector investments, has acquired 100% of the shares in Dental Promotion & Innovation SA, a dental distribution platform in continental Europe.
US private equity firm Paine Schwartz Partners has a made a AUD1.4 billion ($934.50 billion) bid to acquire the remaining shares it doesn’t already hold in Australian horticultural specialist Costa Group Holdings, according to a report by Reuters.
US private equity firm SSW Partners, the owner of automative technology company Veoneer, is exploring the possible sale of the company’s passive safety business, which could attract as much as $500 million, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Global investment firm Carlyle is in exclusive negotiations to acquire PR0PH3CY, a leading “one-stop-shop” cybersecurity services business in France, from IK Partners’ IK Small Cap III Fund (IKSC III). As part of the deal, PR0PH3CY will rebrand as NEVERHACK.
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
