Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

Private equity firm KSL said on Monday it intends to buy Hersha Hospitality Trust , the owner of 25 U.S. The move would take private Hersha at an approximately 60% premium to the real-estate investment trust’s closing stock price on Friday. The deal is slated to close by year-end after shareholders okay the move.

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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. read more Blackstone’s Zawadzki Sees Private Credit as $25tn Market The $1.7

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 16, 2025

HBX Group, a private equity-owned hotel room wholesaler, plans to raise up to 725m through an IPO in Spain. The IPO includes partial stake sales by current shareholders, including CPPIB, Cinven, and EQT. This move positions HBX as the first major European listing of 2025.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

private equity firm General Atlantic is weighing joining co-shareholder Hg in selling its stake in Argus Media, which could lead to 50% of the oil pricing data business being sold, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Argus Media, Hg and General Atlantic declined to comment.

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Private Equity Insights

APRIL 5, 2024

Azimut will sell all of its stake in private credit fund Kennedy Lewis to Goldman Sachs’ private equity unit Petershill Partners. Read more BC Partners sells IT group Presidio to CD&R in $4bn deal UK private investment firm BC Partners has agreed to sell Presidio, a provider of IT services to.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Café bar chain Joe & the Juice has secured an agreement with private equity firm General Atlantic which will see the firm hold a majority stake in the company. The US private equity firm is thought to value the business at $600m (£489.1m), including debt.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 13, 2025

Polish laboratory operator Diagnostyka SA, backed by private equity firm Mid Europa Partners, is gearing up for an IPO on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The offering will feature shares held by Mid Europa, which owns a 47.83% stake in the company. Market estimates suggest the IPO could value Diagnostyka at over $1.2bn.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 16, 2024

State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s largest lender, aims to strike a deal by end-March for the sale of its 24% stake worth 184.2 Japanese lender Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp and Dubai-based Emirates NBD (ENBD.DU) are in advanced talks to acquire a majority stake in Yes Bank, two of these sources said. billion rupees ($2.2

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

KKR initially acquired about 60% of Global Atlantic in February 2021 in a transaction valuing the retirement and life insurance company at roughly $4.7bn, joining other private equity firms in acquiring stakes in annuities providers. The strategy has about $35 billion of assets, including $6.5bn on KKR’s balance sheet.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2024

CDP Equity (CDPE), a subsidiary of the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Group (CDP), and Trilantic Europe, a prominent pan-European private equity firm, have jointly acquired a majority stake in Diagram Group, an Italian agritech innovator.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Private equity firm MBK Partners has teamed with Young Poong Corp, the largest shareholder of Korea Zinc Co, to launch a joint tender offer to acquire a controlling stake in the world’s leading refined zinc producer, valuing the company at KRW13.7tn won ($10.3bn), according to a report by Bloomberg.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 8, 2025

According to a letter sent to Fuji Soft’s board on Monday, the US private equity firm is urging Fuji Soft to seek an injunction in order to stop Bain Capital’s alleged violation of an NDA, in light of a public battle between the two PE giants over the acquisition of the $4 billion Japanese software company.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 9, 2023

Li Chaowang, Vinda’s founder and second-largest shareholder, is also considering teaming up with a bidder for the firm, they said, which has a market value of around $2.4bn. Its stake in Vinda is valued at about HK$9.8bil (US$1.3bil), based on the current stock price.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Prima Assicurazioni, an insurance start-up backed by some of the world’s largest private equity firms, is seeking indicative offers this week to bring in a new minority investor and raise fresh cash, two people close to the matter told Reuters. sports Source: Reuters Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The owners of fund administrator Alter Domus are pursuing the sale of a stake in the Luxembourg-based group that could value it at more than $4.4bn, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The shareholders, which include the company’s founders and buyout firm Permira, have been working with bankers at Goldman Sachs (GS.N)

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

AT&T is selling its stake in DirecTV Last month, AT&T announced it would be selling the 70% stake it has in DirecTV to TPG , a private equity firm, for $7.6 When it eventually gave up on that idea, it became a better dividend stock. Now, with its latest move, it may be an even better one. Let's see why.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

US private equity firm Carlyle’s Global Infrastructure Opportunity Fund will acquire an 82.5% stake in London Southend Airport, a subsidiary of aviation group Esken, formerly Stobart Group, in an agreement to settle £193.75m in debt, with London-based private equity firm Cyrus Capital Partners providing liquidity to Esken.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 16, 2023

PAI Partners has made a binding offer for a majority stake in Naxicap Partners-owned hospitality equipment and consumables business ECF Group. Naxicap would remain a minority shareholder following the deal for ECF, which has annual revenues of about €760m.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

on Monday after news that private equity firm Triton Partners has acquired a substantial stake in the drug discovery and development specialist ahead of a potential takeover bid for the company, according to a report by Bloomberg. Shares of Germany’s Evotec SE rose by up to 16.2%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 20, 2023

These deals enable companies to unlock the value of their real estate while providing them with the capital they can use to repay debt, expand their operations, or fund cash returns to shareholders. Finally, it owns a stake in cold storage company Lineage Logistics, currently valued on its balance sheet at $400 million.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 21, 2024

Pan-European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital will sell its minority stake in OneStock, a European order management system SaaS provider, to private investment firm Summit Partners. Silverfleet and the selling shareholders were advised by Alantra and Hogan Lovells.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund will buy a 10% stake in London Heathrow Airport as part of a shareholder reshuffle, becoming a partial owner in one of Europe’s busiest airports alongside the Qatar Investment Authority. The fund is buying the stake as Spain’s Ferrovial sells down its 25% holding. Each has a stake below 13%.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 8, 2024

Private asset manager Bridgepoint has exited its majority investment in sports nutrition company Vitamin Well with a sale to international private equity firm Cinven, which is now the company’s largest shareholder and lead investor. Bridgepoint will retain a significant minority shareholding in Vitamin Well.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up Marco Patuano, Cellnex CEO, commented: “The early closing of the sale of a minority stake in our Nordic business marks another significant step forward in our goal to attain investment grade ratings.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Trilantic Europe, a European private equity firm with a dedicated energy transition strategy, has acquired a 60% stake in AEROCOMPACT Group, a supplier of solar mounting solutions specialising in the development, production and distribution of substructures for mounting photovoltaic modules.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 26, 2024

Private equity firm PAI Partners is to acquire sport and wellness platform Nutripure from global private investment firm Ardian, through its PAI Mid-Market Fund. Upon completion, PAI will be the majority shareholder with a controlling stake, alongside the founders and Bpifrance.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 9, 2023

Li Chaowang, Vinda’s founder and second-largest shareholder, is also considering teaming up with a bidder for the firm, they said, which has a market value of around $2.4bn. Its stake in Vinda is valued at about HK$9.8bil (US$1.3bil), based on the current stock price. parent company of the Pollo Tropical® restaurant brand, and.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 12, 2024

private equity firm Platinum Equity Advisors LLC in a deal valued at $1.35 The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory and shareholder approvals, is expected to close before the end of the company’s current financial year on March 31, 2025.

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 10, 2024

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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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 16, 2024

Swedish investment firm EQT AB (EQTAB.ST) , opens new tab will acquire PropertyGuru (PGRU.N) , opens new tab in an all-cash deal, valuing the Singapore-based online real estate platform at $1.1 As part of the deal, PropertyGuru’s shareholders will receive $6.70 apiece, a 7% premium to the firm’s last close on Thursday.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 29, 2024

Software focused private investment firm Thoma Bravo is aiming to raise up to $2.74bn by selling approximately half of its current shareholding in Nasdaq Inc as it looks to reduce its stake in the business acquired during a transaction last year, according to a report by Bloomberg. However, it has agreed to buy back 1.2

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

Middle Eastern private equity firm Foursan Group has acquired a 33% stake in Medjool Village, Jordan’s largest vertically integrated grower, packer and exporter of medjool dates, marking its seventh investment via its third fund, FCP II.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 23, 2023

Cashing in to create more value Alexandria Real Estate Equities recently completed the sale of some non-core lab space assets in the Boston market. It sold five non-core, non-mega campus properties with 428,663 of rentable square feet (RSF) in the Boston area to TPG Real Estate Partners, an affiliate of private equity firm TPG Capital.

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Private Equity Insights

APRIL 26, 2024

Private equity firm GTCR has agreed to pay $2.7 billion to buy AssetMark Financial in a deal that would take the wealth management platform private more than five years after its initial public offering. AssetMark’s shareholders will get $35.25 AssetMark’s shares closed down nearly 3%.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Prima Assicurazioni, an insurance start-up backed by some of the world’s largest private equity firms including Blackstone, is looking to sell a minority stake to an investor to raise fresh cash for the business, according to a report by Reuters.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It's designed to acquire projects from NextEra Energy, then pay out growing distributions to shareholders. This week marked an ugly snowball effect on top of last week's roughly 35% decline, which was set off when the yieldco announced it was lowering its dividend growth model. NEP is the yieldco partner to utility NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE).

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 3, 2023

FIS is reportedly considering selling a majority stake in Worldpay to private equity groups. According to the report, which cites a number of unnamed sources, buyout firm Advent, part of the group that once owned Worldpay, is considering a bid. The deal, as reported by the Financial Times, would be worth more than $15bn.

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