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CVC Capital Partners, a global private markets manager focused on private equity, secondaries, credit and infrastructure, has closed its sixth Asia fund, CVC Capital Partners Asia VI, with a total of $6.8bn in capital commitments.
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Luxembourg-based private equity firm CVC Capital Partners is preparing to make its first big deal in Australia over 14 years after it closed its office there, with the acquisition of struggling employment services provider APM, according to a report by the Australian Financial Review.
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Private equity firm Advent International is preparing to sell Evri, the German delivery business formerly known as Hermes UK, which has so far been valued at £2bn including debt, according to a report by The Sunday Times.
Event – London
The highly anticipated Private Equity Wire European Leadership Summit is poised to make a return to London on Wednesday 28 February. Assembled by GPs for GPs, this summit will bring together senior leaders from across the private equity sector to explore the challenges and emerging trends shaping the industry.
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Citigroup has carried out a simulation to explore how a private equity fund could be tokenised on a blockchain network, working with investment firm Wellington Management and ETF sponsor WisdomTree to carry out its “proof of concept”, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Blackstone has withdrawn its bid to acquire a stake in the company holding the media rights to German football’s Bundesliga as opposition from fans to the involvement of foreign private capital reached fever pitch, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Donald Mackenzie, Co-Founder and Co-Chair of CVC, has decided to step back from an active role with the business, Europe’s largest buyout firm, to focus on his private interests ahead of the company’s long-awaited public listing.
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Global private investment firm Carlyle is to launch a new semi-liquid European private credit strategy which provides individual investors with access to the firm’s $188bn AUM global credit platform.
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The value of the shares held by the founders and top executives of some of the largest US private equity groups, including Carlyle, Blackstone, KKR, Apollo Global, and Ares Management, have risen by $40bn — the most since the beginning of last year on the back of a surge in assets, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Harvey Schwartz, CEO of The Carlyle Group, the world’s fifth largest private equity firm, and former President and Co-COO at Goldman Sachs, has set new targets for the private equity firm’s growth and profitability, after a period of high interest rates and senior management issues, according to a report by the Financial Times.
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12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
