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Park Square Capital, and Goldman Sachs Asset Management, have received a binding offer from the Wienerberger Group AG (Wienerberger) for the acquisition of certain core businesses of pan-European roofing specialist the Terreal Group.
Middle-market private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital has acquired a majority ownership stake in Industrial Service Solutions from Edgewater Funds and JZ Capital Partners.
Kester Capital, a UK lower mid-market private equity specialist, has acquired a majority stake in DC Byte, a global market intelligence and analytics provider for data centre operators, developers, investors, advisers and suppliers.
The investment represents Kester’s third investment in the information & data sector, and the fifth investment from of its latest fund, Kester Capital II, which closed at its hard cap in 2020. The DC Byte investment follows two recent exits: Vixio, a high growth provider of data and information services generating a 4.8x return for Kester; and, Avania, the leading global medical technology CRO for 8.4x.
Icona Capital, an independent, London-based investment firm focused on real estate, credit, private equity, special situations and growth equity, has acquired a 40% minority stake in global real estate investment company, Stoneweg.
The strategic partnership creates a combined €8 billion platform leveraging both partners’ capital sourcing, deal flow origination and asset distribution capabilities.
Stoneweg has been identifying real estate opportunities and structuring investment products in Switzerland, Spain, Andorra, Italy, UK, Ireland and the US since 2015. The company has enjoyed a strong period of growth since its inception and now employs over 140 professionals managing more than €5 billion of
Permira has appointed Jörg Rockenhäuser as chairman of DACH, effective 1 January, 2023. Rockenhäuser, who has been with the business for 22 years – 15 years as head of DACH – will continue his work as a member of Permira’s Investment Committee.
Global private equity investor Advent International is to acquire Maxar Technologies, a provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, in an all-cash transaction that values Maxar at an enterprise value of approximately $6.4 billion.
The EQT X fund, part of global investment firm EQT, has competed its acquisition of BTRS Holdings Inc, a B2B order-to-cash software specialist.
Bellevue has recruited an experienced private equity secondaries team consisting of Steven Kroese, Lars Honegger and Chris Davies, that has been operational as of 1 December, 2022.
This acquisition adds a new field of activity to Bellevue’s Private Markets operations – secondary strategies – that complements its existing well established direct investment activities. Bellevue will launch a secondary investment vehicle at the beginning of 2023.
Steven Kroese will serve as managing partner and a member of the Bellevue Private Markets Investment Team. He previously worked for more than 16 years at Partners Group as Senior Vice President and Member of
Ruomu Li has joined Cooley’s Shanghai office as a partner in the firm’s business department, where she will focus on mergers & acquisitions and private equity transactions with an emphasis on the technology and life sciences industries.
Li arrives from Morrison & Foerster, where she served as a partner in the M&A, private equity investments and buyouts practices. She has extensive experience representing strategic and financial investors and target companies in the US, across China, and internationally on a broad range of M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions.
Li brings nearly 16 years of experience in M&A and private
Asset managers are selling private equity holdings via secondary market transactions at a record rate as they look to cover losses from other investment and rebalance portfolios, according to a report by Reuters.
The report says that the sell-off is another signal that investors are beginning to “fall out of love” with alternative investments that until recently were flavour of the month.
With deals being negotiated privately, total turnover is difficult to gauge, although the report cites investment firm Hamilton Lane as saying that some $224 billion in private equity stakes have been offered in the secondary market this year
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