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Discovery Education, a global education technology company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, has agreed to acquire DreamBox Learning, an education technology provider serving more than six million students and 600,000 educators in the US.
Private investment firm Hillhouse Capital is looking to raise over $1.4bn from Chinese investors for a new renminbi fund which will focus on investments in the healthcare sector, according to a report by The Financial Times.
French private equity firm Archimed SAS has agreed to buy UK software company Instem, a provider of IT services for drug development in the global life sciences market, in a take-private deal that values the Staffordshire-based business at £203m.
The Southern Ute Indian Tribe Growth Fund (Growth Fund), the business arm of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe in the USA, has formed a new private equity subsidiary Kava Equity Partners, which will focus on investments aligned with the tribe’s “cultural, environmental, and economic values”.
European specialist growth investor Verdane, through its impact fund Idun, has made an investment of up to €26m in UrbanVolt, a specialist in clean energy technology with operations in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
PAM Group, an occupational health and corporate health services provider backed by private equity firm LDC, has continued its expansion with the acquisition of Corporate Health Ireland (CHI), which has 100 staff and annual revenues of €11m.
Balance Point Capital Advisors (Balance Point), via the Balance Point Capital Partners V fund, has made a follow-on investment in Concord Servicing Corporation (Concord), a portfolio company of Inverness Graham Investments (IGI).
Bids to acquire two coal mines that BHP is seeking to offload in Queensland, Australia could be financed with the help of large loans of between $3bn and $4bn from private credit funds, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The board of Oak Brook, the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, has approved up to $555m in manager hires and commitments in the direct lending and credit funds space, according to a report by Pensions & Investments Online.
Funds advised by SK Capital Partners (SK Capital), a private investment firm focused on the specialty materials, ingredients, and life sciences sectors, have acquired Isolatek International (Isolatek), a manufacturer and supplier of passive fireproofing technologies.
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