Unilever is hoping to attract private equity interest in its ice cream division, having announced plans to sell the business, which includes Wall’s, Magnum and Ben & Jerry’s, and is working with advisers to sound out potential purchasers, according to a report by the Financial Times.

Private equity major Apollo Global Management has made an $11bn offer to acquire Paramount Global’s Hollywood studio, Paramount Pictures, according to a report by Reuters citing an unnamed person with knowledge of the matter.

Global private equity firm Carlyle Group is closing in on a deal to acquire a majority stake in Thyssenkrupp’s Marine Systems business at a value of about €1.5bn ($1.6bn) including debt, according to a report by Bloomberg.

New Mountain Capital, a New York-based private equity firm with $50bn in AUM, has acquired a majority stake in the US arm of Grant Thornton, the third largest accounting firm in the US outside of the Big Four – Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC.

Private equity firm Platinum Equity has hired advisers from investment bank Goldman Sachs in exploring a sale of golf cart manufacturer Club Car that could value the company at more than $2bn, including debt, according to a report by Reuters citing unnamed sources. 

French private investment firm Ardian has completed the acquisition of the entire share capital of Verne, a data centre platform headquartered in the UK and diversified across Northern Europe, from investment trust Digital 9 Infrastructure, in a deal worth up to £450m.

Paris-based private equity firm Andera Partners has agreed to sell its portfolio company, Amolyt Pharma, a global biopharmaceutical company specialising in developing therapeutic peptides for rare endocrine and related diseases, to British-Swedish multinational pharma AstraZeneca, in a deal worth up to $1.05bn.