Dealflow

Investcorp and Cinven exit stakes.

We are seeing more and more signs that things are picking up for private equity dealmaking. We’ve got a couple of private equity-backed businesses looking to launch IPOs – Triton and L Catterton are the owners there – while we also report on the latest take-private bid in the UK, this time by HIG Capital. […]

Eurazeo goes for 2BSI.

We’re going to dive straight into today’s news because I don’t want to talk about the Rugby World Cup… First up, we take a deep dive into how Main Capital approached its exit from e-assessment company Assessio. Next, we have another UK listed company being subject to a take-private bid, this time in the music […]

Looks like September is off to a good start as PE Hub Europe was busy covering a lot of interesting deal announcements this week. Kicking off things, I have some deal news involving Bridgepoint Development Capital which has bagged a majority stake in a French logistics software provider. I will then highlight few deals I […]

It’s a tech-heavy Thursday as we have a couple of new deals to report and we take a deeper look at a recent add-on. First up, Bain Capital portfolio company Rocket Software has brought in a German software company. Next, DTCP has announced the sale of one of its portfolio companies, enterprise architecture management software […]

We’ve featured a lot of predictions on the outlook for the rest of the second half, with most of the dealmakers we’ve spoken to expecting things to be busier than the first half. There are definite signs that things are picking up, because we’ve had a flurry of deals to write up. Grabbing top spot […]

Asset and wealth management are our opening topics this morning, as Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has agreed to take a majority stake in in Seven Investment Management, a UK-based wealth manager, from Caledonia Investments. We’ve got the enterprise value on that one for you. There is further interest in asset managers as CVC is set […]

Ardian expects deal uptick.

Paper and packaging uptick; Property services in demand.