Tag: Transactions

Linden and Audax Invest in StatLab Medical Products

Linden Capital Partners and Audax Private Equity have invested in StatLab Medical Products, according to a news release. StatLab, based in McKinney, Texas, is a manufacturer and distributor of consumables, reagents and equipment used by anatomic pathology, molecular diagnostics and other laboratories. Founded in 1976, the company provides more than 5,000 diagnostic products and equipment. […]

FC Inter Milan owners in talks over private equity sale

BC Partners and EQT among groups vying for some or all of Suning’s majority holding in Italian club valued at up to €900m. Italian football club Inter Milan is in talks over a sale to buyout groups including BC Partners and EQT, as private equity looks to extend holdings in football during a financial crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Suning Holdings, the […]

PE-Backed LiveVox to Go Public Via SPAC Deal with Crescent Acquisition

Software company is backed by private equity firm Golden Gate. LiveVox, Crescent transaction to be valued at $840 million. Customer-service software provider LiveVox is going public through a merger with blank-check firm Crescent Acquisition Corp., the latest technology company to take the alternative route to the public markets. LiveVox, which is backed by private equity […]

Irish funds services firm Carne Group valued at €400m by private equity deal

Vitruvian, which has backed Just Eat and Skyscanner, taking about 25% stake in firm. Carne Group, a Dublin-based provider of technology solutions to the global funds industry, has been valued at about €400 million by an investment from Vitruvian Partners, a UK private equity firm. Founded in 2004 by funds industry veteran John Donohoe, Carne […]

American Tower buys Telxius for €7.7bn in European push

Telefónica to reduce debt as tower unit owned with KKR is sold to Boston-based group. American Tower has agreed to buy Telxius, the telecom tower unit owned by Spain’s Telefónica and KKR, for €7.7bn as consolidation in Europe’s mast market continues. The deal will transform the Boston-based group into a key player in European towers, […]

KKR Expands Real Estate Industrial Portfolio in Phoenix with a New Acquisition

KKR, a leading global investment firm, today announced the acquisition of a 263,000 square foot industrial distribution property in Goodyear, Arizona. Strategically located in close proximity to the I-10 interstate highway, a major cross-country trucking artery, the property increases KKR’s industrial real estate footprint in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan statistical area (MSA) to over two […]

SilverTree Equity acquires Orbus Software

Orbus Software, a provider of Enterprise Architecture software, has been acquired by SilverTree Equity, a private equity firm focused on software and technology businesses. Headquartered in London with offices in New York and Sydney, Orbus Software helps organisations blueprint their changing strategic and IT landscapes to manage successful digital transformation journeys, including shifting to cloud […]

Buyouts may be bad for your health

After a year in which Covid-19 has cruelly exposed the frailties of Britain’s social care system, what’s striking is how little investors’ interest in the business of nursing and curing has dimmed. Forget all those shaming death statistics that came out of care homes, their hand-to-mouth funding, and the fact that some large chains were […]

Spectrum, CVC in Advanced Talks on $2 Billion Conair Deal

Companies seek to finalize agreement in coming weeks. Transaction would add to string of home-appliance acquisitions. Spectrum Brands Holdings Inc. and private equity firm CVC Capital Partners are in advanced talks to acquire hair-dryer maker Conair Corp., according to people with knowledge of the matter. The deal could value Stamford, Connecticut-based Conair at about $2 […]

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