Private Equity Insights

JULY 12, 2024

Software focussed private equity firm Vista Equity Partners has lead d strategic majority growth investment in Nasuni, an enterprise data platform for modern hybrid cloud environments, which values the business at approximately $1.2bn. Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal counsel to Vista and TCV.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 4, 2024

“Integris is a world-class platform that excels in delivering expert outsourced IT services and customer support in an industry with significant growth potential,” Eric Haley, head of buyout at Omers Private Equity, said in the statement. Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP acted as legal counsel for OMERS Private Equity.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 19, 2024

Some of Britain’s best known private equity-backed companies, including pub operator Punch Taverns and London City Airport, have been named by a buyout industry watchdog for not following its transparency and disclosure guidelines. ” A McCarthy & Stone spokesperson declined to comment.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

Charlotte-based private equity firm Falfurrias Management Partners (Falfurrias) has closed its latest middle-market private equity fund, Falfurrias Capital Partners VI, at $1.35bn in investor commitments, surpassing its initial target. Falfurrias Capital Partners V, raised in 2021, closed at $850m.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Private equity firm Astira Capital Partners announced the final closing of its debut fund with $675m of institutional capital commitments, exceeding its original target of $500m. The fund, Astira Capital Partners Fund I LP, comes just five months after the firm’s launch in May. Lazard Ltd.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 7, 2024

Milan-based private equity firm Alto Partners and Italian fund management company Arca Fondi have agreed to the buyout of Eurosirel, a manufacturer and distributor of medical devices and cosmetics. Alto Partners and Arca Fondi were advised by OC&C, Giovannelli Studio Legale, Spada Partners and ERM.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 3, 2024

European private credit manager Pemberton Asset Management has held the first close of its new NAV strategic financing strategy at over $1bn of investible capital. The strategy, which provides financing solutions to private equity firms, secured investment from Abu Dhabi Investment Authority as anchor investor, Legal & General and others.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up The new fund will consider a range of sectors and transactions, including management buyouts and replacement capital, as well as financing growth for aspiring business owners. Macfarlanes acted as legal adviser to Panoramic.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Inflexion Private Equity (Inflexion) has completed a take-private deal for DWF Group plc (DWF), a global provider of integrated legal and business services. The investment was made from the firm’s Buyout Fund VI. The company has 4,000 employees in 30 offices across 18 countries.

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AltAssets

JULY 2, 2024

Pemberton Asset Management has reached more than $1bn of investible capital at the first close of its new NAV strategic financing strategy, focused on financing for private equity firms.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 20, 2023

The mid-market private equity firm said that the fund close was the largest first-time pan-European buyout fund raised since 2020. The fund has completed five platform investments in total, including a UK nursery operator and a European firm that produces, packages, and distributes fresh fruit.

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 17, 2024

PlayAGS will be acquired by affiliates of private equity firm Brightstar Capital Partners, with the deal valued at $1.10bn. Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up Macquarie Capital is serving as financial advisor and Cooley as legal counsel to PlayAGS.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Private equity funds affiliated with global private investment giant Blackstone and software-focused private equity firm Vista Equity Partners (Vista), are to acquire Energy Exemplar, a provider of energy market simulation software, in a deal reportedly worth more than $1bn.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

CIVC Partners (CIVC), a Chicago-based middle market private equity firm, has completed fundraising for its latest fund, CIVC Partners Fund VII (Fund VII), which with $870m in capital, surpassing its initial $700m target.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Rede Partners acted as placement agent, and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP served as legal counsel in the formation of Fund III. Read more Apollo Set to Make $6.26bn Bid for UK’s Pension Insurance Corporation Private equity firm Apollo Global (APO.N) Source: CISION PR Newswire Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Global law firm Ropes & Gray has named 12 of its existing attorneys as the firm’s latest Partners, effective 1 November, including several whose practices cater for private equity and other private credit and private fund clients. She brings a deep understanding of technology and consumer brands.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 20, 2023

New fund for Alpine doubles the size of predecessor fund in 2021 a Certified B Corp people-driven private equity firm committed to building enduring software and services companies, announced today the completion of fundraising for Alpine Investors IX (“Fund IX”), reaching the fund’s hard cap of $4.5 Evercore Inc.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 24, 2024

Recently, however, the stock has been on an upswing, climbing nearly 62% from its low of $38 in this past October amid rumors of a potential buyout by a private equity firm. These factors seem to have made the company an attractive option for potential leveraged buyout by private equity companies.

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Clearlake Capital Group

JANUARY 24, 2025

With the assistance of our financial and legal advisors, the Board conducted a thorough and fulsome auction process commencing late in the summer of 2024. Advisors Lazard is serving as financial advisor to Logility, and Jones Day is serving as legal counsel. Orrick is serving as legal counsel to Aptean. Miller, Jr.,

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

Kat Hidalgo, Allison McNeely, Neil Callanan and Eyk Henning of Bloomberg report that private equity's creative wizardry is obscuring danger signs: As Pete Stavros addressed the private equity industry’s yearly shindig in Berlin last month, the KKR & Co. But they were just as troubling.

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Hellman & Friedman LLC

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The investment, estimated to close in early June 2024, recognizes Baker Tilly’s outstanding track record of value creation and marks the largest private equity investment in the US CPA sector to date. Baker Tilly US, LLP will operate as a separate legal entity pursuant to regulatory and independence requirements.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms.

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Hellman & Friedman LLC

APRIL 11, 2022

H&F, a premier global private equity firm, will acquire a majority stake in IRI and merge IRI with H&F portfolio company NPD. LLC and Guggenheim Securities LLC are serving as financial advisors to IRI, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP is serving as legal counsel. For more information, visit www.npd.com.

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Hellman & Friedman LLC

APRIL 28, 2023

LGP), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm. With a current total enterprise valuation of $23 billion, which represents the largest enterprise value to date for a private insurance broker, HUB expects to receive a substantial minority investment from funds managed by LGP. For more information, visit Hub Media Center.

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Oakhill

MAY 4, 2023

Bank Street Group LLC served as exclusive financial advisor and Latham & Watkins LLP and Maynard Nexsen served as legal counsel to Lit Communities and existing equityholders in connection with this transaction. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP served as legal counsel to Oak Hill. Stephens Inc.

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Clearlake Capital Group

JANUARY 10, 2024

More information on Clearlake can be found at www.clearlake.com About Motive Partners Motive Partners is a specialist private equity firm with offices in New York City, London and Berlin, focusing on venture, growth equity and buyout investments in technology-enabled financial and business services companies based in North America and Europe, and serving (..)

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 27, 2025

The Los Angeles-based private equity firm, which focuses on lower middle-market investments in media, entertainment, and communications, will support the firms expansion by enhancing operational resources and enabling scale across its talent representation divisions. Can`t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Several buyout firms have unknowingly backed data centres used by ByteDance, some of which may have provided a legal workaround for acquiring high-end Nvidia chips. Under US restrictions imposed in 2023, Chinese firms are banned from purchasing these chips directly. Blackstone and General Atlantic declined to comment.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

We’re going to look at a buyout and look at the pricing, look at the structure. And we brought them a plan that, you know, I think, was very similar to what the banks were doing at the time, which was providing financing to private equity-owned companies, huge area of growth in the economy. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But because these are really good businesses, which got levered, they got leveraged through these leverage buyouts. Early nineties was the start of the modern high yield leverage buyout business done at scale. Two, three years at a private equity firm. I wanted to make sure it just came through. And still growing.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

Closed a C$230 million investment in the term loans of Legal Search, a provider of property- and corporate-related search services in Australia, the U.K., Private Equity Entered into a definitive agreement alongside Silver Lake to acquire Qualtrics, a U.S. and the U.S. Committed US$400 million to Carlyle Asia Partners VI, L.P.,

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, his name is Steve Klinsky, and he has an absolutely storied history in the field of private equity. And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

KKRs buyout of Fuji Soft is set to become Japans largest take-private deal this year, according to LSEG data. The private equity firm pursued an unconventional two-stage acquisition process, repeatedly raising its offer in response to Bains competing bids. Can`t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 27, 2025

Although buyout groups expressed interest, Bayer is unlikely to pursue a spin-off in the short term, given the scale of its ongoing restructuring. The company is still dealing with billions in legal liabilities tied to glyphosate lawsuits inherited from its $63bn Monsanto acquisition in 2018.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Bank Polska Kasa Opieki and Pekao Investment Banking were joint bookrunners, with legal counsel from Greenberg Traurig, Baker McKenzie Krzyzowski i Wsplnicy, and White & Case. The transaction highlights the resilience of private equity-backed IPOs despite market volatility.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Middle-market private equity firm Pamilico Capital (Pamlico) has held the final close of its sixth fund Pamlico Capital VI (PC VI) at the funds hard cap of $1.75bn, exceeding its initial fundraising target of $1.5bn. Pamlico generally seeks equity investments of $50m to $200m in growing companies.

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