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Private equity firms can capitalise on opportunities for modernisation, digitalisation and consolidation in the wealth management sector, according to Christian Kent, a Managing Director in global investment bank Houlihan Lokey’s fintech group, who last month advised on CBPE Group’s sale of Perspective Financial Group to Charlesbank.
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Swiss private equity investment firm Partners Group is weighing up the options for its portfolio company VSB Group including a sale of the Germany based renewable energy company, according to a report by Reuters.
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For International Women’s Day this year, Private Equity Wire spoke to Meryem Bensaid (pictured), a Principal at Blackstone, and Private Equity Wire’s sister title Hedgeweek spoke to Trudi Usher Boardman, Head of Hedge Funds at Pictet Alternative Advisors.
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A number of big-name buyout firms including Carlyle Group, CVC Capital Partners and KKR have all shown preliminary interest in striking a take-private deal to acquire Hong Kong-listed luggage maker Samsonite International, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Global private equity major Carlyle Group is gearing up to sell portfolio company Tokiwa, a Japanese cosmetics supplier, and is eyeing a potential deal value of around $800m, according to a report by Reuters.
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CVC Capital Partners, Europe’s biggest buyout firm with around €188bn in AUM, is reviving its plans for a $15bn-plus Amsterdam stock market listing that could happen as soon as next month, according to a report by Sky News citing unnamed sources.
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Capitol Meridian Partners, a Washington-based investment firm founded by former Partners at Carlyle, has raised more than $1bn to back US government contractors, aerospace and defence companies, according to a report by Bloomberg.Â
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Arkhouse Management, a New York-based investment firm that takes a private equity approach to public markets investing, has, with investment partner Brigade Capital Management, upped its all-cash proposal to acquire US retail chain Macy’s to $24.00 per share.
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The sale of loans by banks prompted by the so-called Basel III ‘endgame’ is creating an opportunity to generate outsized private credit returns, according to a report by Bloomberg citing Mark Jenkins, Head of Global Credit at Carlyle Group.
Event – New York
Ahead of the Private Equity Wire US Emerging Managers Summit, Joe Briggs, Founder & Managing Partner at Briggs Capital Formation, provides insight for new and emerging managers on the topic of deal-by-deal structures and what to look out for ahead of raising a fund. Joe will be leading a roundtable on this topic at the Summit on 13 March.
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12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
