Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The regulator, which launched the probe in December over competition concerns, confirmed on Wednesday that it will not escalate the merger to a further in-depth investigation. The company confirmed it is in early-stage discussion with private equity investors but emphasized that there is no certainty a public takeover offer will materialize.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 16, 2025

Private equity firms are increasingly using continuation funds to extend ownership of portfolio companies. These funds, which saw rapid growth between 2019 and 2021, provide fresh capital to high-potential assets, ensuring continued value creation. Source: Mergers & Acquisitions Can’t stop reading?

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AUGUST 14, 2024

Devon Energy (NYSE: DVN) has struck out on several potential acquisition opportunities over the past year. However, the company finally found a deal to its liking in July , agreeing to buy Grayson Mill Energy for $5 billion. The highly accretive transaction is a strong strategic fit for the oil company. shale plays.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This investment highlights ongoing venture capital confidence in cybersecurity, even as artificial intelligence remains a dominant industry focus. The company is headquartered in both Dallas and Tel Aviv and has previously raised nearly $500m from major investors, including Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, and Israeli VC firm Cyberstarts.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Endless created Karnova Food Group through the acquisitions of Yorkshire Premier Meat in 2022 and Smithfield Murray in 2023. The private equity firm has not disclosed financial returns from the exit. The combined business now generates over 135m in revenue, according to a statement from Endless. Can`t stop reading?

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Image source: The Motley Fool/Getty Images Capital One sent shockwaves through the credit card industry on Feb. The deal is expected to close in late 2024 or early 2025, and would make Capital One the biggest credit card company by loan volume. billion acquisition could bring big changes to credit card customers.

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Private Equity Professional

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Before founding Dinmont Ridge, Mr. Maerov led mergers and acquisitions for North America and Latin America at WPP , a global leader in advertising, public relations, media, and technology services headquartered in London. WPP, the world’s largest advertising and marketing company, generates annual revenues exceeding $18 billion.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

Private investment giant Blackstone, in partnership with smaller investors, is acquiring a majority stake in Citrin Cooperman, a US accounting firm, in a deal that values the company at over $2bn, according to a report by the Financial Times. Private equity has driven a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the accounting sector.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners has finalized a deal to acquire Sogo Medical Group, Japan’s fifth-largest pharmacy chain, from Polaris Capital Group for approximately $1.2bn. Polaris Capital Group, a Tokyo-based private equity fund, had taken Sogo Medical private in a management buyout worth nearly $850m just last year.

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Private Equity Insights

APRIL 26, 2024

Bulgarian private equity firm BlackPeak Capital has invested €6.8m in Bianor Holding, a software development company catering to the technology, media and telecommunications industries. Silica To Be Taken Private By Apollo In $1.85bn Deal Industrial minerals company U.S. Source: Private Equity Wire Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Baird Capital, the global private equity and venture capital arm of Baird, has appointed Daina Spedding as a Director with the firm’s Global Private Equity team based in London to focus on sourcing and driving PE investments globally. Before BGF, she was a Private Equity Investor at Blue Coast Capital for nearly ten years.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 22, 2024

Energy companies have signed over $180 billion in merger agreements over the last six months. However, Devon Energy (NYSE: DVN) has gotten left out of the current merger wave washing over the oil patch. The oil producer has reportedly pursued several acquisition targets, only to lose to a competitor.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Energy Transfer (NYSE: ET) has been on an acquisition binge. billion merger with fellow master limited partnership (MLP) Crestwood Equity Partners last November. On top of that, the company has continued to invest heavily in organically expanding its operations. billion and $3 billion into growth capital projects this year.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 10, 2024

The pipeline company recently reported strong first-quarter results, fueled mainly by recent acquisitions. Another acquisition, this time by affiliate Sunoco (NYSE: SUN) , will help power stronger-than-expected earnings growth for the master limited partnership (MLP) this year. That was enough cash to cover the company's 7.8%-yielding

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

A consortium led by private investment firms Starwood Capital Group and Warburg Pincus is working to finalise a deal to take ESR Group private, valuing the Hong Kong-listed real estate fund manager at over $7bn, according to a report by Reuters. The company raised $1.6bn during its 2019 IPO in Hong Kong, pricing shares at HKD16.8

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The main factor fueling its growth was acquisitions, specifically, its merger with Crestwood Equity Partners at the end of 2023 and its acquisition of WTG Midstream last July. The company has approved several expansion projects to support growing Permian Basin volumes over the past year. The company is investing $1.1

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Vista Equity Partners has sold an $800m minority stake in LogicMonitor, a SaaS-based hybrid observability platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI), to a consortium of investors including PSG, Golub Capital, and others.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

government and blocked the proposed merger between handbag and fashion rivals Capri Holdings (NYSE: CPRI) and Tapestry (NYSE: TPR). The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued to block the merger in April after Tapestry agreed to buy Capri last year, arguing that the combination would hurt consumers and leave less affordable handbag options.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 8, 2024

The REIT recently added $1 billion to its acquisition target, giving it the confidence to boost the low end of its growth rate. billion merger with Spirit Realty earlier this year. this year without needing outside capital to fund additional acquisitions. The REIT's magnificent dividend should continue its steady rise.

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Private Equity Professional

JANUARY 8, 2025

BlackRock made headlines in late 2024 through the firms acquisition of HPS Investment Partners , backed by their expectation that the private debt market will more than double to $4.5 2] While BlackRocks acquisition dominated the news cycle, other firms have already made it their prerogative to jump into the private credit pool.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A high-stakes clash between private equity titans KKR and Bain Capital over a $4bn buyout of Fuji Soft is reshaping the landscape of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Japan, and could become a blueprint for more aggressive dealmaking in the country, according to a report by the Financial Times.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

With 40bn in assets under management across private equity, private debt, and real estate, BC Partners is focusing on mid-market transactions, particularly defensive growth companies valued between 1bn and 2bn. times invested capital. The firm sees these businesses as offering strong upside while maintaining flexibility for exits.

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Mitsubishi Chemical has agreed to sell its pharmaceutical subsidiary, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma, to US private equity firm Bain Capital in a deal valued at JPY510bn ($3.36bn) as part of a broader effort to streamline its portfolio.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

And that means the pipeline company could have lots of fuel to grow its dividend, which already yields an attractive 5.9%. The pipeline company kept its payout flat from the start of 2020 until earlier this year, when it provided investors with a modest 2% raise. billion on capital projects this year (up from its initial range of $1.3

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Private Equity Professional

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Over the years, private equity has shifted from a focus on leverage and financial engineering to an ever-increasing emphasis on creating value through operational improvements within their portfolio companies. Multiple mergers and acquisitions had created operational inconsistencies within the business.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

It has transitioned from an oil pipeline company to a more diversified energy infrastructure operator. The pipeline and utility company currently gets half its earnings from liquids pipelines and the other half from lower carbon energy, like natural gas and renewables. billion) of secured capital projects in its backlog.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

for companies with no change in their dividend policy. A history of dividend growth and wealth creation Brookfield Infrastructure formed about 15 years ago as a spinoff from the company now known as Brookfield. Several factors have helped drive the company's ability to produce such powerful dividend growth and returns.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 12, 2023

QuantumScape, a developer of solid-state batteries, merged with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in November 2020. and rose to its post-merger high of $35.69 QuantumScape only has a market capitalization of $3.4 That actually exceeded its pre-merger target for generating $346 million in revenue in fiscal 2023.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 31, 2025

NGP Energy Capital Management is considering selling Camino Natural Resources, one of the largest privately held natural gas producers in Oklahomas Anadarko Basin, in a deal that could value the company at around $2bn, including debt, according to a report by Reuters.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 1, 2024

annualized, which is why I focus my attention on companies that can increase their payouts. Acquisitions are the main factor driving Realty Income's steadily rising dividend. The REIT estimates that every $1 billion of accretive acquisitions it makes will add 0.5% billion merger with fellow REIT Spirit Realty.

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JULY 27, 2024

But there's a reason Warren Buffett's kept a sizable Kraft Heinz stake in Berkshire Hathway 's portfolio since melding the two food companies into one back in 2015. A merger that underperformed on multiple levels If you're not familiar with the saga, here's the shortened version of the story. The company says it's on pace to find $2.5

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 15, 2024

I focus on companies that pay above-average dividends that should steadily rise in the future. The company pays less than 75% of its stable cash flow in dividends each year. The REIT can deliver this incremental growth by making accretive acquisitions funded with outside capital (issuing new shares and debt).

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

VinFast just came public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger in which more than 80% of shareholders redeemed their shares before the merger closed. Geographically, most of Ubiquiti's markets did reasonably well, with only some sluggishness in the Asia-Pacific region holding the company back.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 30, 2024

billion, SoundHound AI is not a young company. In July, the company rolled out its voice assistant with integrated ChatGPT in Stallantis vehicles in several European markets. In 2022, Microsoft purchased Nuance Communications (the company behind Apple's Siri) for $19.7 Image source: Getty Images. million in SoundHound stock.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 16, 2023

On Tuesday, the company made its market debut via a merger with special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) Black Spade Acquisition, and quickly surged from $10 per share to close at $37.06 By comparison, Ford Motor and General Motors have market capitalizations of $48 billion and $45 billion, respectively.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2024

Their low valuations and shareholder-friendly capital return strategies make them great oil stocks to buy this month. Chevron's other upside catalyst is its pending acquisition of Hess. Chevron estimates the acquisition would enable it to more than double its free cash flow by 2030 at $70 oil. The oil company generated $3.2

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

US private equity dealmakers are preparing for a year of heightened merger and acquisition (M&A) activity despite significant macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainties, according to the 2025 Deal and Business Risk Management Survey by professional service firm Aon.

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