Deals
CVC Capital Partners is in early talks to acquire KKR’s majority holding in Indian financial services group Avendus Capital, after negotiations with Japan’s Mizuho Financial Group faltered, according to a report by Bloomberg citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.
Vista Equity-backed Jamf is exploring a potential sale as pressure from its struggling share price attracts takeover interest, according to a report by Reuters citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.
US private equity firm TPG is to acquire GE Vernova’s Proficy industrial software business in a $600m deal, with GE Vernova planning to use proceeds to strengthen its grid software operations, according to a report by Reuters.
London-listed financial services firm JTC Plc has entered into discussions with rival private equity groups Warburg Pincus and Permira, after turning down a series of earlier buyout approaches from both firms, according to a report by Reuters.
Legence, a San Jose-based engineering and maintenance services provider backed by Blackstone, has raised $728m in its US initial public offering, pricing 26 million shares at $28 each, according to a report by Reuters.
Starbucks is moving into the final stages of its planned sale of a stake in its China business, with major private equity firms including Carlyle Group and EQT among those preparing final bids, according to a report by Reuters.
PAI Partners has sold part of its holding in Belgian infrastructure services provider Infra Group to a group of investors led by ICG, in a deal that values the business at around €3bn ($3.5bn), according to a report by Bloomberg citing people familiar with the matter.
Chicago-based private equity firm Pritzker Private Capital is exploring a sale of Sprayway, the cleaning products brand owned by its portfolio company PLZ Corp, according to a report by Reuters citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.
Robert W Baird & Co has acquired a minority stake in Canadian alternative asset manager Sagard Holdings Inc, becoming the firm’s first US institutional investor in the process, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Advent International has agreed to sell Czech generic drugmaker Zentiva to Chicago-based private equity firm GTCR in a €4.1bn deal, marking one of Europe’s largest healthcare transactions this year, according to a report by the Financial Times.
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