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Oslo-Based Kahoot! Acquired in €1.5bn Deal by Goldman Sachs, Lego Group and Others; Will Run as a Privately Company

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will operate as a private company in the years ahead. The offer comes from the Private Equity business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. It is made along with co-investors General Atlantic FT, LEGO Group’s KIRKBI Invest A/S, Glitrafjord AS, and other investors and management shareholders. per cent of Kahoot!’s

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Qualtrics private again with close of $12.5bn private equity deal

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Qualtrics, the software company behind an experience management platform used by thousands of companies such as Uber, Coca-Cola and Pfizer, has accepted a $12.5 billion all-cash offer from private equity firm Silver Lake and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments). based subsidiary SAP America Inc.

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Japan’s Toshiba considers $20bn take-private deal

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Toshiba Corp is considering a $20 billion offer from private equity firm CVC Capital Partners to take it private, a person familiar with the matter said, as the Japanese industrial conglomerate faces pressure from activist shareholders to improve governance. Other deals by the private equity firm include the $1.5

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Pelican Energy Partners to acquire nuclear power engineering provider GSE

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Houston-based private equity firm Pelican Energy Partners has agreed to acquire GSE Solutions, an engineering provider to the nuclear power industry, in an all-cash transaction. Source: Private Equity Wire Can’t stop reading? The transaction is expected to close in Q3 or Q4 2024.

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Kaman to be Acquired by Arcline for $1.8 Billion

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Arcline Investment Management, a growth-oriented private equity firm with deep experience investing in technology-driven, meaningful-to-the-world industrial businesses, has entered into an agreement to acquire Kaman for $1.8 Upon completion of the transaction, Kaman will become a privately held company.

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Advent to buy Ryan Reynolds-backed fintech Nuvei in $6.3 bn deal

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Private equity firm Advent International has agreed to buy Canada’s Nuvei NVEI.TO in a deal that values the payments technology firm, which has received financial backing from actor Ryan Reynolds, at $6.3 billion, would make it one of the more sizable take-private deals at a time when private equity dealmaking has slowed.

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KKR plans $4bn Fuji Soft take-private deal

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US private equity major KKR is planning to take Japanese systems developer Fuji Soft private in a deal valued at around JPY600bn ($4.13bn), according to a report by NikkeiAsia citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. Last September, 3D proposed that Fuji Soft go private.