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Focus Group founders dial up £800m sale to private equity firm Hg

Private Equity Insights

The founders of a business telecoms and IT services provider are on the brink of toasting a nine-figure windfall after entering advanced talks to sell it to one of Britain’s leading private equity firms. Insiders said a number of other private equity firms, including Bain Capital, had also explored offers for Focus Group.

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Qualtrics private again with close of $12.5bn private equity deal

Private Equity Insights

Qualtrics, the software company behind an experience management platform used by thousands of companies such as Uber, Coca-Cola and Pfizer, has accepted a $12.5 billion all-cash offer from private equity firm Silver Lake and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments). based subsidiary SAP America Inc.

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Garnett Station Partners, Authentic Restaurant Brands Will Add Fiesta Restaurant Group to Its Portfolio for a Value of $225m

Private Equity Insights

“The Special Committee and, ultimately, the full Fiesta Board of Directors, determined that this transaction delivers significant, immediate and certain value to Fiesta stockholders while providing Pollo Tropical the scale, resources and flexibility for continued success as part of a private company.”

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Will United Launch Alliance Have an IPO in 2024?

The Motley Fool

And last I checked, United Launch Alliance (ULA) is still a private company. As The Wall Street Journal confirmed last month, there are (still) three companies currently bidding to acquire ULA from Boeing and Lockheed: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, defense shop Textron (NYSE: TXT) , and private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management.

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The 25 Most Active Family Offices on Axial

Axial

When the Berstein Family sold ImageFIRST to a private equity firm, the group found themselves eager for a new challenge. They knew together they could positively impact other companies and decided to form Northwoods Partners as a result. KCO is not a typical private equity firm – KCO is not a fund.

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Suyi Kim on What Drives Success at CPP Investments' Giant PE Portfolio

Pension Pulse

In fact, the number of deals across the entire private equity portfolio has slowed significantly in the last two years. “We We have submitted bids, but we often come in far below the winning bid and in retrospect we are happy that we’ve missed these investments.” “We use our secondaries to adjust the portfolio here.”

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Transcript: David Snyderman, Magnetar Capital

The Big Picture

00:05:21 [Speaker Changed] No income taxes for the company and, and 00:05:23 [Speaker Changed] Then Koch Industries, I I, I don’t think a lot of people realize one of the largest private companies in the United States and maybe even the largest, they’re, they’re giant energy powerhouse.

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