Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Keensight Capital, a Paris-based private equity firm focused on European growth buyout investments, has opened a new office in Singapore. The Singapore-based team will focus on enriching market analysis, refining go-to-market strategies, optimising supply chain procurement and facilitating mergers and acquisitions.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2023

After not finding any better offers, Fort Myers-based retailer Chico’s FAS is moving ahead with a plan to sell itself to a New York-based private equity firm for $1bn. “We are excited about the next chapter in our company’s future with the pending acquisition by Sycamore Partners. to about $1.17m.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 8, 2024

Private equity giant Bain Capital is said to be considering an acquisition of education software provider PowerSchool Holdings (NYSE: PWSC). Is PowerSchool going private again? PowerSchool is no stranger to private equity. Vista and another private equity firm, Onex, still own stakes in the company.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

Generally speaking, during the early days of a start-up , founders will raise money from venture capital or private equity firms in exchange for equity. Moreover, one prediction I made for 2024 is that mergers and acquisitions will see a rebound this year.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

PE firms target UK health companies Submitted 14/08/2023 - 12:08pm Private equity firms are positioning to capitalise on the National Health Service's long waiting lists and other operational challenges by acquiring numerous UK healthcare companies over the past two years, according to a report by the Financial Times.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 7, 2023

The news confirms an earlier Bloomberg report that the US buyout firm was close to announcing the deal. Plans by billionaire Elon Musk and fellow tycoon Jeff Bezos to launch thousands of spacecraft into lower orbits and blanket the earth in fast broadband have pushed the traditional satellite industry into mergers.

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The Healthcare Investor

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

is a provider of strategy, merger and acquisition, digital transformation, cybersecurity, information technology quality and regulatory compliance consulting services to life sciences and healthcare organizations/ Grant Avenue Capital , based in New York, is a healthcare-focused, middle market private equity firm.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 11, 2023

Invest in Europe 's “ Investing in Europe: Private Equity Activity 2022 ” research has shown that 801 European private equity, venture capital, and growth funds raised 30% more in 2022 compared to 2021 (€170 billion in 2022 compared to €131 billion achieved in 2021).

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They’re one of the older private equity firms around, been been in business since 1994. They were private partnership, they weren’t even public.Yep. And the entire merger department of Goldman Sachs in 1983 was 32 people. And now we call it the private equity industry.

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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.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 5, 2024

Buyout firm EQT AB is teaming up with Germany’s richest man to acquire a 35% stake in German bus and train operator Flix SE. The private equity firm is investing through EQT Future, an impact-driven fund with a longer holding period. They are investing around €1 billion ($1.2

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 18, 2023

Buyout firm Boyu Capital has agreed to acquire Quasar in a deal that values the medical device maker at more than $600 million, people familiar with the matter said, marking another transaction in the health-care sector which has become a rare bright spot for dealmakers. Source: BNN Bloomberg Can’t stop reading?

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 25, 2024

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth. There’s pent-up demand.

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Axial

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

” Visit SouthWorth’s Profile “Cottonwood Acquisitions is a family office partnership focused on investing in small to mid-sized businesses. ” Visit Emigrant’s Profile “Appalachian Capital Holdings (AppCap) is a small private investment office that manages the assets of private families and individuals.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

HCP) to support Carlyle’s acquisition of the company. which focuses on control buyouts and minority investments in mid-to-large companies across Asia. Committed US$1 billion to Blackstone Capital Partners IX, the flagship fund of Blackstone, which focuses on large-scale, control buyouts in North America, Europe and Asia.

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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. In fact, that was pre -merger with Manny Hanny and Chemical, and JP Morgan, and et cetera. Unfortunately, you know, they went through a series of about a dozen mergers — RITHOLTZ: Right. It was a bit of a tar baby back then. KENCEL: Sure.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So, I graduated from business school in 1987 and went to GE Capital for two years, financing leveraged buyouts. So, by the time I got there, it was well beyond just, you know, financing customer acquisitions of appliances. Tell us about the merger in the early days that gave us General Electric, and who ran that company.

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