Deals
Roark Capital, a US PE firm focused on leveraged buyout investments across franchise restaurant and food, health and wellness, and business services, has completed its acquisition of Subway in a deal valued at $9.6bn.
- 01/05/2024
- 01/05/2024
An affiliate of private investment advisory firm Sun European Partners has agreed to sell UK environmental risk reduction specialist Adler & Allan to the private equity business at Goldman Sachs Alternatives.
- 01/05/2024
Global investment company abrdn has completed the sale of its £7.4bn European-headquartered private equity operation to alternative investment firm Patria Investments for around £100m, with the business set to be renamed Patria Private Equity Trust.
- 30/04/2024
Blackstone has upped the ante in the bidding war to acquire troubled music rights business Hipgnosis Songs Fund with an improved $1.6bn offer, trumping a rival $1.5bn bid from Concord, a US-based music investment group backed by Apollo Global Management, according to a report by Reuters.
- 29/04/2024
- 29/04/2024
Software-focused investment firm Thoma Bravo has reached an agreement with the board of directors at Darktrace, a UK specialist in cybersecurity artificial intelligence, to acquire the business in an all-cash $5.4bn deal.
- 29/04/2024
A number of private credit firms including Blackstone have held talks with KKR & Co over providing a debt package of at least $525m to support the buyout firm’s bid to acquire Perpetual’s corporate trust and wealth management units, according to a report by Bloomberg.
- 29/04/2024
Blackstone and Goldman Sachs are lining up to provide around $1.6bn in funding to support a potential take-private deal for L’Occitane International by the company’s owner Reinold Geiger, which could value the skincare business at about $7bn including debt, according to a report by Bloomberg.
- 29/04/2024
Private equity firm GTCR has agreed to acquire AssetMark Financial Holdings, a wealth management technology platform for financial advisors, in a take-private deal that values the business at approximately $2.7bn.
- 26/04/2024
The energy transition powered a recovery in European venture capital in the first quarter of 2024, as investors directed more funds to startups focused on solving the climate crisis, according to Dealroom’s Europe Q1 report.
- 25/04/2024
US middle-market private equity firm Vestar Capital Partners has closed a $1.2bn single-asset continuation vehicle for its stake in Circana, a global consumer behaviour adviser, with Blackstone Strategic Partners and HarbourVest Partners acting as lead investors in the transaction.
- 25/04/2024
- 25/04/2024
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