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Everstone Capital, the private equity arm of Mumbai-based Mumbai-based Everstone Group, is considering selling its Asian healthcare platform Everlife for as much as $1 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg.
LGT Capital Partners, a global alternative investment specialist, has opened a San Francisco office. The firm, which has $80 billion in assets under management, has been investing in North America since its inception in 1997 and currently has US offices in New York and Raleigh, North Carolina.
The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has acquired Canuti Tradizione Italiana, a family-owned producer of frozen pasta serving the food service channel.
Audax Private Equity has acquired Medi-Weightloss, an operator of science-based, physician-supervised weight-loss and wellness clinics, with approximately 100 franchised and company-owned locations nationally.
The fallout from the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s now bankrupt FTX empire continues with another digital assets startup, BlockFi Inc, announcing it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to a repot by Pensions & Investments Online.
And a host of VC funds are among investors likely to be impacted by the collapse with the report citing Preqin data as revealing that early funding rounds in the company, which was founded by in 2017 by Zac Prince and Flori Marquez, included PJC, ConsenSys Ventures, Galaxy Asset Management, Social Finance, Alumni Ventures Group, Lumenary and Kenetic Capital.
The company also
Mereo Capital Partners and Hyperion Capital Partners have acquired Algus Packaging (Algus), a provider of thermoformed blister and clamshell packaging and manufacturer of blister seal machines.
CVC Capital Partners is reportedly among a host of potential investors currently considering a move to acquire skin care brand Aesop in a takeover deal expected to be worth in excess of £1 billion, according to a report by the Mail on Sunday.
Private equity firm Bridgepoint Group has made a £400 million bid to acquire a 75% stake in English cricket’s the Hundred, the newest short-form version of the sport launched by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), according to a report by Sky News.
The proposal by the London-listed buyout form would provide a significant injection of funds for the ECB and the 18 forts class counties.
With franchised Twenty20 competitions gaining in popularity around the world, the report says that the Hundred, which launched a year later than planned in 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, is ripe for
KKR Group is to become the majority shareholder in the APRIL group, one of Europe’s leading insurance brokerages which was previously backed by CVC Capital Partners.
International wholesale investors do not expect to increase their allocation to private markets significantly from current levels, and remain positive about the case for public markets, despite recent global economic headwinds.
That’s according to the results of a survey of 800 European and US fund buyers, consultants, and wealth managers, commissioned by RBC BlueBay Asset Management (RBC BlueBay).
Respondents are currently allocating 22% of their portfolios to private markets, and do not expect to significantly increase this allocation over the next three to five years. Whilst just over half of respondents expect public markets to outperform private markets over the
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