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UK supermarket Asda has completed £568m of sale-and-leaseback transactions across 24 stores and a distribution depot, in a move seen as strengthening the capital structure under majority owner TDR Capital, according to a report by Reuters.
TPG’s Rise Fund has made a strategic minority investment in Healthcademia, an international healthcare education group, joining majority shareholder G Square Capital to support the company’s next phase of growth.
A consortium of private credit investors, including Antares Capital, KKR, BlackRock, and Carlyle Group, is preparing to convert debt into equity at 48Forty Solutions, roughly a year after backing Summit Partners’ $1.75bn acquisition of the pallet company, according to a report by Bloomberg citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
South Korean private equity firm MBK Partners has wrapped up fundraising for its latest Asian buyout fund, securing $5.5bn – roughly 20% below its original $7bn target – amid a challenging year for the firm and the broader region, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Horizon Group, a global provider of specialised international freight forwarding focused on time-critical marine spare parts logistics, has announced that Gal Dayan has been appointed as the firm’s new COO, effective April 15, 2025. Horizon is a portfolio company of GHK Capital Partners LP, a middle-market private equity firm based in Greenwich, CT.
Private equity firms are increasingly tapping the high-yield bond market to extract cash from portfolio companies in order to fund payouts to themselves and their investors, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Blue Owl Capital is considering revisiting a proposed merger between its publicly traded Blue Owl Capital Corporation (OBDC), and its privately held sibling, Blue Owl Capital Corporation II, contingent on an improvement in OBDC’s share price so that the fund is not trading at a discount to its net asset value, according to a report by Reuters citing people familiar with the matter.
Carlyle Group is launching a dedicated India side-fund alongside its sixth pan-Asia vehicle, aiming for approximately $300m in commitments, according to a report by Bloomberg.
EQT AB is reportedly close to acquiring a majority stake in European environmental services provider Desotec from Blackstone Inc, just four years after the US private equity firm purchased the business, according to a report by Bloomberg citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
Hg is to sell medical imaging software specialist Intelerad to GE HealthCare in a transaction valued at approximately $2.3bn, marking a full exit from its majority stake with minority investors TA Associates and Ardan Equity also divesting their positions.
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