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Park Square Capital, a European private credit specialist, has successfully raised €3.4bn ($3.8bn) for its latest direct-lending fund, European Loan Partners II, which will lend to private equity-owned mid-market businesses across Europe, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Private equity firms HIG and CapVest have joined the competition to acquire AAH Pharmaceuticals, the UK’s largest pharmacy wholesaler, which has been put up for sale just three years after being acquired by German PE firm Aurelius, according to a report by the Financial Times.
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Private equity firm Clearlake Capital, the co-owner of Chelsea Football Club, has finalised a deal to acquire a credit investment unit from Natixis, marking its entry into the booming $1.7tn private credit sector, according to a report by the Financial Times.
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Blackstone Inc is close to finalising a deal to acquire AirTrunk, an Australian data centre operator, for over AUD20bn ($13.5m) including debt, in what would be one of the largest infrastructure transactions of the year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Insights Report
August 2024 | As forecasts for deal activity remain tentative, hanging in the balance due to a number of variables, certain factors characterise the PE landscape of today: A flight to quality assets; fierce competition for the same; persistently high though ever-so-slightly narrowing bid-ask gaps; and growing pressure to deploy, divest or distribute capital. Firms need to find differentiation, and more rigorous ways to evaluate a riskier class of assets. This report digs deeper into these strategies.  Â
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OpenAI, the company behind the popular AI tool ChatGPT, is in advanced talks to secure several billion dollars in a new funding round led by Thrive Capital with an investment of around $1bn, that could value the startup at over $100bn, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
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The NFL has officially lifted some of its strictest ownership rules, allowing certain private equity firms, including Arctos Partners, Ares Management and Sixth Street Partners to purchase stakes in franchises, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Private equity firms Summit Partners and Vista Equity Partners are considering the sale of Trintech, a financial software provider, in a deal that could value the company at approximately $2bn including debt, according to a report by Reuters.
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A consortium of private credit lenders, led by Blue Owl Capital and Ares Management, has taken control of Pluralsight, wiping out $4bn that Vista Equity Partners and its co-investors have invested in the company since acquiring it three years ago, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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European private equity managers are setting a high bar in environmental, social and governance performance, with half (51%) of the region’s managers now earning an “excellent” rating, according to LGT Capital Partners’s ESG Report 2024.
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