Private equity sees robust markets in healthcare
A Bass Berry & Sims-hosted panel looks back at 2020 and forward to 2021. With American hospitals once again at the breaking point amidst the largest surge in Covid-19 cases yet, private equity players in the healthcare space are looking for resilience and continuity in 2021. That’s according to industry observers at a recent webinar […]
M&A deals plunge in Israel as pandemic sidelines foreign investors
Value of deals drops by 50% to $10 billion, with third quarter showing greatest decline in number, PwC Israel data shows Merger and acquisition deals in Israel plunged by 50% this year to $10 billion compared to last year, due to the economic paralysis wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, a new report by consultants PwC […]
M&A rebounds sharply to hit $3.6tn in 2020
Deals were halted by the coronavirus but big transactions returned in the last few months A flurry of big deals in the last few weeks drove global mergers and acquisitions to $3.6tn in 2020, representing an extraordinary rebound of takeover activity in the second half of the year. The 2020 total value of deals is […]
US investment firm ALK Capital buys Premier League team Burnley
US investment firm ALK Capital buys Premier League team Burnley An American investment group has agreed to take control of Burnley football club, the latest English Premier League side to attract US owners. ALK Capital has agreed to buy an 84 per cent shareholding in Burnley, which was established as a football club in 1882. […]
Onex acquires Falcon Investment Advisors
Onex Corporation has acquired Falcon Investment Advisors, LLC, a Boston based private credit manager, from founder Sandeep D. Alva. Financial terms were not disclosed. Onex Corporation today announced that it has acquired Falcon Investment Advisors, LLC, a leading U.S. private credit manager, to expand its established credit platform and solidify its market position in tradeable, […]
World’s Largest Technology Products Distributor Sold to Private Equity Firm in $7.2 Billion Deal
One of the world’s largest investment firms is making a splash in the technology products sector by buying the world’s largest distributor of computer and technology products. Platinum Equity announced on December 9 that it has reached an agreement to acquire Ingram Micro, a distributor of information technology products, in a deal valued at $7.2 billion. Platinum Equity is buying […]
Riverside sells temporary traffic safety management solutions provider AWP
Global private equity firm The Riverside Company has sold Area Wide Protective (AWP). Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Headquartered in North Canton, Ohio, AWP is a provider of outsourced temporary traffic safety management (TTSM) solutions supporting infrastructure repair, maintenance and upgrade activities for a broad range of blue-chip utilities, utility contractors and […]
Link Group to acquire Casa4Funds
Link Group is to acquire Casa4Funds from Banor Capital, subject to regulatory approval. Casa4Funds is one of the oldest European independent third-party UCITS Management Companies and Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM), headquartered in Luxembourg. The acquisition will provide additional scale for Link Fund Solutions in Luxembourg, Europe’s largest investment fund centre. It will also provide […]
Acadia to sell UK unit for $1.47 bln
Acadia Healthcare Company Inc said on Wednesday it would sell its UK business operations to Waterland Private Equity for about 1.08 billion pounds ($1.47 billion). The company expects the sale to result in proceeds of about $1.35 billion, it said. ($1 = 0.7357 pounds). Source: Reuters Image Source: National Real Estate Investor
How selling to yourself became private equity’s go-to deal
The pandemic has helped make a previously niche set of transactions more mainstream Private equity firms have a new set of buyers for their portfolio companies: themselves. Blackstone, EQT, BC Partners and Hellman & Friedman are among the buyout groups to have sold companies to funds that they control this year, or made plans to do so. […]
