Private Equity Insights

APRIL 9, 2025

Jonathan Murphy, CEO of Assura, said the deal would enable the company to accelerate its investment in critical healthcare infrastructure, leveraging the financial and operational support of two highly experienced private equity backers. Despite its substantial asset base, the company employs just 79 people.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 27, 2025

According to Bloomberg , this is the firms lowest target since 1999, following five consecutive funds that each raised $4bn or more. The Chicago-based private equity firm has begun early fundraising discussions with investors.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 14, 2023

Private equity firm Endless acquired ASCO on 11 August 2023. read more Singapore’s Neon to Consider $200m Funding Round, Following $115m investment last year by 65 Equity Partners Neon is considering raising about $200m in fresh capital as the immersive entertainment group.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 20, 2025

Read more: [link] Goldman Sachs unveiled its Capital Solutions Group, a new division aimed at strengthening its focus on financing solutions for private equity sponsors. The group combines the firms corporate finance, leveraged finance, and equity capital markets teams into one unit.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 14, 2025

The company, co-owned by the Issa brothers and private equity firm TDR Capital, plans to list later this year in one of the largest retail IPOs in recent memory. The IPO will reportedly value the UK-based firm at approximately 10.7bn ($13bn). EG Group is gearing up for a $13bn IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

German private equity firm Maguar has taken a controlling stake in Navori Labs, aiming to drive the Swiss digital signage software companys global expansion. It plans to leverage its resources, network, and expertise to scale Navoris operations. Founded in 1998, Navori has sold over 1.25 Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 9, 2025

The fund aims to leverage the firms extensive network, operational expertise, and trusted partnerships to drive value. Since Fund IV’s closing, the firm has expanded its offerings to include credit and real estate strategies, aligning with its core mission. Source: PR Newswire Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 12, 2025

Private equity firms are also playing an increasing role in reshaping governance and management at undervalued Korean companies, unlocking new value creation opportunities. The broader Asia-Pacific private equity market saw investment activity rise to $138bn in 2024, marking an 8.1% increase from the previous year.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

HBX Group, the Spanish travel technology company known for its Hotelbeds brand and backed by private equity firms Cinven, EQT, and Canadian pension fund CPP Investments, is gearing up for a 1bn ($1.04bn) initial public offering (IPO) in the coming weeks, according to a report by Reuters.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

The launch of SQ Capital comes at a critical time for the private equity industry, which has seen a 65% drop in exit flows since 2021, leaving nearly 28,000 portfolio companies unsold. Around 40% of these businesses have been held by private equity firms for more than four years, intensifying the demand for liquidity solutions.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The private equity firms aim to refinance or reprice Adevintas existing 4.5bn debt and may raise an additional 2bn, potentially for a shareholder dividend, according to sources familiar with the matter. The firms acquired Adevinta in 2023 in one of Europes largest leveraged buyouts backed by private credit.

Debt 147

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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. This leaves valuable margin dollars on the table.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

BlackRocks push into GP solutions underscores its ambition to solidify its role in the alternative investments space, leveraging its scale and expertise to provide capital solutions for private equity firms globally. We can be a primary capital provider through our fund-of-funds business, Small stated.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The report cites unnamed sources familiar with the matter as revealing that the private equity firms have started consulting with investment banks in preparation for a potential sale process, expected to begin in early 2025.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 17, 2023

Our co-operation with Cornerstone and Kartesia will allow us to leverage our strong position across Europe and provide us with the financial backing to introduce more innovations in the future,” says Gabriel Kermiche, CEO and co-investor at Ecowipes. Source: Non Wovens Indsutry Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2023

EQT AB is leading the bidding as private equity firms compete for a stake in the media rights business of the Bundesliga, Germany’s main football competition, people with knowledge of the matter said. Deliberations are ongoing, and the private equity firms could revise their bids following further negotiations.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The discussions are currently confidential, and both publicly traded and privately held energy producers are considered potential buyers, though a sale is not guaranteed. In recent years, private equity firms have increasingly divested from energy assets, leveraging higher commodity prices to profitably exit oil and gas investments.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Warburg Pincus, a leading private equity firm managing approximately $86bn in assets, has no immediate plans to pursue an initial public offering (IPO), according to a report by Reuters quoting CEO Jeffrey Perlman at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York on Tuesday. It was a tough vintage, Perlman said.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 9, 2024

Hastings, who joins from Eversheds Sutherland, is a finance lawyer focused on leveraged and acquisition financing. Hastings acts for private equity firms and their portfolio companies, corporate borrowers and for private credit funds in relation to transactions at all levels of capital structures.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

Private equity firms Apollo Global Management and BC Partners have joined forces to agree a deal to acquire GFL Environmentals Environmental Services business at an enterprise value of CAD8bn ($5.59bn). GFL expects to realise cash proceeds from the transaction of approximately CAD6.2bn net of the retained equity and taxes.

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Private Equity Professional

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Solina was acquired in June 2021 by Astorg , a Luxembourg-based private equity firm, from Paris-headquartered Ardian. Leveraging Sokols sweet sauce capabilities will round out and enhance our offerings, said Michael Marks , the president of Solina USA.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

Burger King UK, the fast-food chain backed by private equity firm Bridgepoint, has launched talks with lenders for a major refinancing, seeking additional capital to support its expansion plans, according to a report by Sky News.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Investment banks, which faced significant losses on risky merger and acquisition (M&A) loans due to a spike in global interest rates, are now aggressively returning to the leveraged buyout (LBO) market — one of the most profitable sectors in finance, according to a report by Bloomberg. Lending limits have also increased.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 18, 2023

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up Source: Private Equity Wire Can’t stop reading? read more Vista’s Finastra secures record-breaking $5.3bn private loan Private lenders including Oak Hill Advisors, Blue Owl Capital, and HPS Investment Partners are.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Carlyle Group has secured private credit financing to acquire a majority stake in Australian waste management company Waste Services Group (WSG), according to a report by Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the matter. The funds will support Carlyles purchase of the stake from Livingbridge, the anonymous source said.

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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. Read more LDC Exits Cakesmiths with 3x Return LDC, the private equity investor which is part of Lloyds Banking Group, has agreed to exit its.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

and Deutsche Bank AG are also among the lenders considering a role in funding what would be the largest leveraged buyout of the year so far, according to the people, who asked not to be identified discussing the transaction. Jefferies Financial Group Inc.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Buyout firms have long relied on controversial loans backed by equity stakes to enhance fund returns, but growing investor criticism has triggered a slowdown, according to a report by Bloomberg UK. Many firms borrowed against their portfolio companies to sustain the private market boom while dealmaking dwindled.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 31, 2025

The expected stabilisation in CRE is seen as a positive development for financial firms, including asset managers and banks, that have significant exposure to the distressed industry. Blackstones fourth-quarter inflows totalled $57.5bn, bringing full-year inflows to $171.5bn.

Initial Public Offering 87

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2024

K2 Insurance Services has joined the growing list of companies looking to reduce borrowing costs by swapping private credit debt for leveraged loans by initiating $500m refinancing deal, according to a report by Bloomberg. In contrast, the current debt package carried a spread of 6.75

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Leveraging Debt Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms 94

FinSMEs

JUNE 4, 2024

Copley Equity Partners uses “procurement-as-a-service” to help portfolio companies drive down technology costs and generate capital to fund hiring and acquisitions When Copley Equity Partners (Copley) added AuctionIQ (AIQ) to their portfolio in 2022, they foresaw potential for increased profit and growth based on high market demand for the procurement (..)

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The Motley Fool

JULY 19, 2023

It's finally making some progress Digital Realty has formed a JV with a private equity firm, GI Partners, that will own data centers in the Chicago area. As that slide shows, Digital Realty generally has a much higher leverage ratio and dividend payout ratio compared to its data infrastructure REIT peers.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 21, 2024

Surprisingly, private equity firms are at the forefront of this trend, investing heavily in solar, wind, biomass, and other renewables. In 2023, private equity and venture capital transactions in the global renewable energy sector nearly reached $15 billion. The statistics underscore this movement.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

Norwegian oil and gas company DNO ASA has agreed to acquire Sval Energi, a portfolio company of private equity firm HitecVision, in a $1.6bn deal that includes a $450m cash payment and assumption of the company’s debt, according to a report by Reuters.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In January, Mubadala signed a joint venture with Alpha Dhabi Holding , a unit of Abu Dhabi’s International Holding Company, to co-invest in private credit opportunities. Mubadala will hold 80% ownership of the Abu Dhabi Global Market-based joint venture entity, with the remaining 20% held by Alpha Dhabi.

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Axial

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Today we are featuring the 25 Most Active Private Equity Firms on the Axial platform. ” Industries: Technology, Manufacturing, Business Services, Distribution, Healthcare Visit Baymark’s Profile “Pfingsten is an operationally-driven private equity firm focused on long-term value creation.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 7, 2024

Private credit investor Pemberton Asset Management is partnering with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority to raise at least $1bn to provide net asset value loans to private equity firms, according to a report by Bloomberg. ADIA is set to anchor the strategy, which is expected to close in the coming weeks.

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