Deals
Clearlake Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in the technology, industrial and consumer sectors, has had a bid worth $3.78 billion to acquire cloud computing provider Blackbaud Inc rejected because it undervalues the company, according to a report by Reuters.
TOP STORY: British private equity firm Actis has paid around $500 million to acquire a portfolio of Latin American data centres from Nabiax, a Spanish data processing centre operator owned by Asterion Industrial Partners and Telefonica.
Buyout firm CVC Capital Partners and activist hedge fund Elliott Management are among the suitors to have tabled bids to acquire parts of struggling cinema chain Cineworld, according to a report by Sky News.
Brookfield Asset Management is in negotiations to acquire a majority stake in data centre operator Data4, in a deal that values the business at close to €3.5 billion euros, including debt, according to a report by Reuters.
SoftBank Group has agreed a deal to take Berkshire Grey private by acquiring all of the company’s outstanding stock it doesn’t already own for $1.40 per share, giving the deal a value of around £375 million, according to a report by MarketWatch.
News of the acquisition saw the company’s shares trading 16.72% higher at $1.33 in after hours trading on Friday having finished the day’s regular session down 4.2% at $1.14.
According to its website, Berkshire Grey offers solutions that combine AI and robotics to automate fulfilment, supply chain and logistics operations for retail, eCommerce, package handling, and logistics companies.
AnaCap Financial Partners has sold a minority stake in portfolio company MRH Trowe, one of the largest owner-managed commercial lines insurance brokers in Germany, to TA Associates. The company’s founders will remain the largest shareholder group post transaction and will be backed by both AnaCap and TA Associates moving forward.
Lower mid-market private equity firm, NorthEdge, has backed a primary MBO in Cezanne HR, a UK provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) software and payroll services.
Private investment firm Bain Capital has made a non-binding buyout offer to acquire Australian senior care provider Estia Health Ltd for AUD775.1 million ($517.77 million), according to a report by Reuters, sending shares in the Sydney-based business to a three-year high.
Oldenburgische Landesbank AG, a German lender backed by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, has but the brakes on plans for an IPO that was expected to happen as early as May of this year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
An affiliate of alternative investment firm HIG Capital has sold Elekeiroz, a specialist in the oxo-alcohols, plasticizers, phthalic & maleic anhydrides and sulfuric acid markets in Brazil, to Latin American speciality chemicals company Oswaldo Cruz Química.
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