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Arlington Capital Partners, a Washington, DC-based private equity firm, has acquired Exostar, a secure business collaboration platform, from software investment giant Thoma Bravo.
Paine Schwartz Partners, a private equity firm focused on companies operating in the global food and agribusiness sectors, has closed its fourth fund with $1.7bn of total capital commitments.
65 Equity Partners, an independent global investment firm backed by Temasek, has bolstered the company’s presence in Europe and North America, with the appointments of Pascal Heberling and Leon Brujis as Partners.
Global private equity advisory firm Apax Partners has raised circa $750m for the first generation of dedicated Apax Credit Funds, which like the firm’s private equity firms will focus on four core sectors – technology, services, healthcare and internet/consumer.
Blue Owl Capital has responded to the challenges of the current fundraising environment by offering a special deal to investors who make an early commitment to its sixth fund aimed at investing in private equity firms, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Captrust Financial Advisors has secured a minority growth investment from funds managed by global investment firm Carlyle. Neither existing investor private equity firm GTCR nor any of Captrust’s executive leadership teams will be selling secondary shares as part of the transaction.
The majority (95%) of UK dealmakers expect inflation to hit the 2% target set by the Bank of England, with an optimistic minority expecting it to happen within the next year and a more realistic majority predicting a two-year timescale, according to CIL’s Investment 360 Index.
ECI Partners, a UK-based growth-focused, mid-market private equity firm, has held the final closing of its twelfth buyout fund, ECI 12 at its hard cap of £1bn, in excess of the fund’s original target of £900m.
BrightSpring Health Services Inc, a community-based healthcare services provider backed by global private investment firm KKR & Co, is moving ahead with plans to raise $1bn from a stock market listing, having shelved its initial IPO last year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
London-based European private credit specialist Hayfin, which currently has around €30bn of assets under management, is considering options for its future including a potential sale of the business, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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