Private Equity Insights

JULY 17, 2023

New York-based private equity firm Integrated Media Company has unveiled a deal to buy Toon Boom Animation from Canadian cartoon company Nelvana for CAN$147.5 million (US$111 million), to allow parent Corus Entertainment to pay down debt. Source: The Hollywood Reporter Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 22, 2025

Jack Howell, Co-President of Stonepeak, said, Boundary Street is a strong cultural fit for our firm, and their expertise will enable us to deliver even greater value to our partners and clients.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 6, 2025

Kirkland & Ellis served as the legal counsel for Fund 5, while Houlihan Lokey acted as the exclusive placement agent. Source: Private Equity Wire If you think we missed any important news, please do not hesitate to contact us at news@pe-insights.com.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 10, 2025

Vistria Group, a private equity firm based in Chicago with ties to former President Barack Obama, has successfully closed a $3bn fund, adding to the growing list of Windy City investors raising capital over the past year, according to a report by BNN Bloomberg. However, Vistria has also faced legal challenges.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 21, 2025

This acquisition represents LLCPs 17th investment in franchising and aligns with the firms strategy of enhancing value through strategic growth initiatives. Honigman LLP and DLA Piper provided legal counsel for the transaction. Apogem Capital provided debt financing. Houlihan Lokey and Robert W.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Unilever has scrapped plans to sell its €15bn ice cream division, which includes the Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, and Wall’s brand, to private equity firms, opting instead to spin off the business into a separate publicly listed company, according to a report by the Financial Times.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The New York-based private equity firm, which focuses on middle-market buyouts and growth investments, first backed Simple Mills in October 2019, becoming its largest shareholder. Piper Sandler and Centerview Partners acted as financial advisors, while Kirkland & Ellis served as legal counsel to Vestar on the transaction.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 16, 2023

Private equity firm Bain Capital on Tuesday agreed to buy Fogo de Chão, in a deal people familiar with the matter said valued the Brazilian steakhouse chain at about $1.1bn, including debt. The deal marks a win for private equity firm Rhone Capital, which took Fogo de Chão private for $560m in 2018.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Nordic Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in the healthcare, tech and payments, and financial services sectors, has entered into exclusive negotiations regarding the acquisition of Anaqua from private investment firm Astorg. William Blair acted as financial advisor to Nordic Capital.

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Private Equity Professional

OCTOBER 29, 2024

“We are delighted to have partnered with Nautic on their successful fundraise and congratulate the entire Nautic team on reaching this important milestone in the firm’s history.” Nautic targets majority equity investments ranging from $50 million to $400 million in companies with enterprise values between $100 million and over $1 billion.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 31, 2025

The San Francisco-based private equity firm, founded in 2024, focuses on businesses within the advanced industrial economy, investing in companies that provide essential products, services, and equipment across high-value manufacturing, infrastructure solutions, critical industrial services, and industrial technology.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 6, 2025

Coalesce Capital (Coalesce), a private equity firm focused on investing in business services companies, has completed a majority growth recapitalisation in executive compensation and leadership consultancy, Pearl Meyer & Partners (Pearl Meyer). Ropes & Gray served as legal advisor to Coalesce Capital.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Private equity firm Cinven is to make a majority investment in Grant Thornton UK, one of the leading diversified professional services firms offering audit, tax, and advisory services in the UK, with the firm’s UK Partners retaining a significant holding in the business.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Regional private equity firm NorthEdge has made an investment in Telford-headquartered EdTech software provider PebblePad in what is the the seventh deal from NorthEdge Fund III and the firm’s 17th technology investment in total.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 29, 2023

billion green energy private equity firm based in Europe. followed by extensive third-party legal and technical due diligence on the Sulus Solar platform,” said Justin Brown, co-founder and co-chief executive of Power Capital. Hawthorne Renewables marks the first U.S. venture for the Paris-based company. .

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 7, 2025

Blackford Capital (Blackford), a lower middle market private equity firm, has closed the sale of portfolio company Mopec Group, a supplier of equipment, consumables, and services for pathology and anatomy professionals, to PE firm Waud Capital Partners (WCP). Varnum served as legal counsel for Blackford Capital and Mopec.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Equiteq served as financial advisor and Wolfson Law provided legal advice to Lane Four. Stikeman Elliott and Willkie Farr & Gallagher provided legal advice to VSS Capital Partners.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 30, 2025

Fund IV will follow the firms established strategy of partnering with founders, families, and management teams in environmental solutions, niche manufacturing, and specialty services across North America, with a strong focus on Texas, the Southwest, and the Midwest.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Godspeed Capital Management (Godspeed Capital), a lower middle-market Defence & Government services, solutions, and technology focused private equity firm, has held the final close of Godspeed Capital Fund III at its hard cap of $675m.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2023

” Linklaters LLP acted as legal counsel to Celsa Poland. acted as financial advisor and CMS and Kirkland & Ellis LLP as legal counsel to SVP. read more Crescendo Equity Partners Leads $140m Investment in LINE NEXT to Accelerate Web3 Adoption LINE NEXT Corporation., Houlihan Lokey Inc. Source: Yahoo!

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

LLC served as financial advisor and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP served as legal advisor to Argo on the transaction. Read more Arctos Partners Drives into F1 with Aston Martin Stake, Valued at $1bn Aston Martin F1 team sells stake to private equity firm at $1bn valuation. While exact figures.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 31, 2025

Cogenuity Partners (Cogenuity), a lower middle market private equity firm investing in businesses operating within the advanced industrial economy, has closed its inaugural fund, Cogenuity Fund I, with $425m in total capital commitments.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 2, 2025

Providence Equity Partners, a private equity firm specialising in growth-focused investments across media, communications, education, and technology, has acquired Tax Systems, a provider of global tax and accounting software, from mid-market investor Bowmark Capital.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Omnes Capital, a €6bn Paris-based private equity firm investing across energy transition and innovation, has completed its acquisition of a majority shareholding in EEF Erneuerbare Energien Fabrik (EEF), a German developer of energy solutions with locations in Berlin, Hamburg and Wiesbaden.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 28, 2025

The private equity firm aims to strengthen its presence in government and commercial markets by combining Casepoints data management expertise with Opexus government process solutions. Source: Legal Technology Can’t stop reading? Opexus supports over 100,000 users and 200 public institutions in the U.S. and Canada.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

UK private equity firm Inflexion is selling off Chambers and Partners five years after it acquired it, in a deal valued at more than £400m. Inflexion bought the legal ranking and insights business in March 2018, in what City A.M. understood at the time to be between £35m and £50m.

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Private Equity Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

US private equity firm Compass Group Equity Partners has closed Compass Group Fund III and hit its hard cap of $408m, the firm’s second oversubscribed fundraising in two years. McGuireWoods served as legal counsel for the fund and Aqueduct Capital Group provided placement agent services.

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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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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

These specialized entities are popular among income-seeking investors because they legally avoid paying income taxes by distributing nearly all their profits to investors as dividends. There are 505 companies in Ares Capital's portfolio and nearly all are backed by private equity sponsors. last year from 11.6% a year earlier.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 10, 2023

Princeton Equity Group, LLC, a Princeton and Dallas-based private equity firm focused on control investments in franchisor and multi-unit companies, today announced the final closing of its Princeton Equity Partners II, L.P. and non-U.S. Source: PR News Wire Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 12, 2024

Perwyn were advised by Gowling WLG (legal), Spayne Lindsay (corporate finance), EY (financial & tax), OC&C (commercial) and Deloitte (structuring). Crosta & Mollica were advised by Piper Sandler (corporate finance), Joelson (legal) and Eight Advisory (financial & tax). read more DigitalBridge and Silver lake pump $6.4

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 9, 2023

Advisors Jefferies LLC is acting as lead financial advisor and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is serving as legal counsel to Fiesta in connection with the proposed transaction. Guggenheim Securities is serving as lead financial advisor and Kirkland & Ellis LLP is acting as legal counsel to ARB and Garnett Station.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2023

BV Investment Partners, a Boston based private equity firm focused on tech-enabled business services, software, and IT services for more than 40 years, announced today the closing of a single-asset continuation fund transaction for Right Networks, a premier provider of cloud solutions to tax and accounting firms.

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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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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

GTCR, a leading private equity firm, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cloudbreak Health, LLC (“Cloudbreak” or “the Company”), a leading provider of tech-enabled, healthcare-focused language interpretation services, in a corporate carve-out transaction from UpHealth, Inc.

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American Investment Council

MAY 14, 2024

WCAS currently holds just a 23% stake in USAP, but the FTC argued that the private equity firm remained in effective control of an ongoing antitrust violation. Why it matters: This was the FTC’s first direct swing at private equity, and an effort to shove a dagger through the corporate veil. And missed.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 12, 2024

A&M Capital Europe (AMCE), a London-based middle-market private equity firm with €650m of assets under management, has acquired a majority stake in GBUK Group, a global provider of specialist single-use medical devices, from H2 Equity Partners (H2EP). Source: Private Equity Wire Can’t stop reading?

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