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Middle market private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital has exited its investment in LPW Group Holdings, a designer of valves and other flow control products, through a sale of the business to Oaktree Capital Management.
Buyout private equity firms are having difficulty offloading companies and returning cash to investors, with direct lenders including Blackstone, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Neuberger Berman Group swooping in to provide cash, according to a report by Bloomberg.
New Mountain Capital, a New York-based private equity firm with $50bn in AUM, has acquired a majority stake in the US arm of Grant Thornton, the third largest accounting firm in the US outside of the Big Four – Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC.
Pan-European mid-market private equity investor Oakley Capital has acquired a majority stake in medical software provider Horizons Optical via its Oakley Capital Origin Fund I from Madrid-based Sherpa Capital.
Genstar Capital, a private equity firm focused on investment in the financial services, industrials, software and healthcare sectors, has promoted Principals Matt McCabe and Dominic Martellaro to Directors.
Omni Partners has sold its majority stake in wellbeing and employee benefits provider Vivup to growth equity firm Great Hill Partners, with the transaction subject to FCA approval and expected to close in Q2 2024.
Healthcare-focused private equity firm DW Healthcare Partners has sold DermLite Holdco I, a portfolio company of its Founders Fund, to FotoFinder Systems, a portfolio company of Paris-based private equity firm EMZ Partners.
Private equity firms including Advent International and Blackstone are approaching both banks and private lenders over debt packages of around €7.5bn ($8.16bn) to help finance a potential acquisition of Sanofi’s consumer health division, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Private equity firm Advent International is in advanced talks over a deal to acquire Nuvei, a Canadian payments technology company, according to a report by Reuters citing an unnamed source familiar with the matter.
Despite a decline in both private equity infrastructure dealmaking and fundraising in 2023, limited partners are planning to increase their commitments to the asset class, according to a new report by Boston Consulting Group.
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