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Daily coverage of private equity transactions and fundraising. Recurring subjects include buyouts, secondaries and minority stakes, fund closes and their targets, sovereign wealth fund allocations, and sector activity across healthcare, data centre infrastructure, consumer brands and legal technology.
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Recent examples: Sagard's Bernard Sabrier says private equity's era of "financial artists" is over · KKR takes majority stake in Cisternina to build pan-India liquid storage platform
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Recent posts
- Sagard's Bernard Sabrier says private equity's era of "financial artists" is over
For the better part of two decades, private equity rewarded financial ingenuity. Bernard Sabrier believes that era has ended, and that much of the industry has yet to adjust. Sabrier, Vice Chairman of Sagard, Chairman of Sagard MENA and Sagard Private Equity, spoke at Private Equity Insights DACH 2026 in a fireside chat moderated by Octavius Mihaies, CEO of Bargold Partners. Sabrier argued that today’s liquidity crisis is the prelude to a lasting paradigm shift. The managers who emerge from it, he suggested, will look very different from those who thrived when money was almost free. “I’m…
- KKR takes majority stake in Cisternina to build pan-India liquid storage platform
Cisternina will use the investment to buy the liquid storage terminal and rail business of Ganesh Benzoplast (GBL), which will serve as the anchor asset for a national platform. The GBL business operates one of India’s leading privately owned tank farms. It was established at Jawaharlal Nehru Port in the early 1990s and now has about 500,000 kilolitres of operating and under-construction storage capacity across JNPT, Cochin, and Goa. Cisternina was founded in 2024 by infrastructure veterans Amit Saboo, Kartik Deuskar, and Puneet Kedia, all of whom have previously worked with global private…
- Inflexion takes minority stake in French nail care brand Manucurist
The European mid-market private equity firm has taken a 49% stake, according to The Business of Fashion. Inflexion is the company’s first outside investor, and the founders keep majority ownership. Financial terms were not disclosed. However, French publication L’Informé previously reported that Inflexion’s offer valued Manucurist at about €300m and that it beat Advent International and Verlinvest to the deal. Alantra acted as exclusive financial adviser to the shareholders and ran a competitive sale process. Manucurist was founded in 2016 and makes plant-based, vegan nail products and…
- Audax Private Equity agrees $1.4bn sale of GCG to Rexel
The deal values GCG at an enterprise value of $1.4bn and ends a seven-year holding period for the Boston-based firm. Audax acquired the business in 2019 through a carve-out of Genuine Parts’ Electrical Specialties Group. It later split that business into two independent platforms, GCG and EIS, and sold EIS to a financial buyer in 2024. During its ownership, Audax built GCG’s standalone corporate infrastructure and completed 12 add-on acquisitions. It also refocused the company on its core specialty wire and cable business. As part of that refocusing, GCG sold its Automation & Factory…
- KKR's Helix secures $1bn from Samsung as AI infrastructure platform passes $11bn
Samsung Electronics is investing $500m. Samsung C&T, Samsung SDS, Samsung SDI, Samsung Life Insurance, and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance are providing the remaining $500m. The commitment builds on the more than $10bn that founding investors, including KKR, the Kuwait Investment Authority, Nvidia, and Vistra, pledged at launch. Total commitments now exceed $11bn. Adam Selipsky, Helix’s co-founder and chief executive, called the deal “a strong vote of confidence in Helix’s strategy”.
- Ardian opens its $45bn infrastructure strategy to private investors with evergreen ELTIF
Ardian has launched an evergreen European Long-Term Investment Fund (ELTIF) that gives private investors access to its $45bn infrastructure strategy. The move extends one of the asset class’s longest-standing institutional franchises further into the wealth channel. The Ardian Access Infrastructure ELTIF sits as a new compartment within the Ardian Access Series UCI Part II umbrella fund, alongside the existing Ardian Access Infrastructure compartment. It is the latest addition to Ardian Access, the Paris-based firm’s range of evergreen products for investors seeking exposure to private…
- Top private equity news of the week
Investindustrial extends food ingredients buy-and-build into Dubai with La Crema deal The deal gives the Italian mid-market investor’s ingredients platform its first manufacturing footprint in the region. Investindustrial has completed three bolt-on deals in the Middle East since 2024, and 281 in total across more than 30 countries, representing a combined enterprise value of €14.1bn. Read more here . QIA and J.P. Morgan Asset Management strike $20bn partnership with private credit leg The two sides have signed a memorandum of understanding setting out the framework, which is split into two…
- Warburg Pincus lifts Ingenia bid to A$5.25 as board weighs third approach
The non-binding proposal, received after market close on 25 September, would be implemented through a scheme of arrangement, with the price reduced by any distributions Ingenia pays before completion. The revised bid follows two earlier approaches from Warburg Pincus at A$4.75 ($3.33) and A$5.05 ($3.54) per security, both of which Ingenia’s board rejected. This time, however, the board has stopped short of turning the proposal down. “The Board has not yet formed a view on the merits of the Further Revised Indicative Proposal, including the acceptability of the conditions outlined above, and…
- Blackstone rolls its private markets platform into a single fund with BXPM launch
The fund is aimed at eligible investors outside the US and is not being offered to US persons. BXPM draws on four of the firm’s largest businesses. These are its $364bn private equity strategies, which span corporate private equity, tactical opportunities, growth, life sciences, and secondaries, as well as its $90bn infrastructure business, its $314bn real estate platform, and its $469bn credit and insurance arm. According to Blackstone, this is the first time eligible non-US investors can access its perpetual funds through one product. “Blackstone has been a leader in broadening access to…
- CVC walks away from Bodycote, leaving Veritas clear to complete £1.85bn take-private
The deal values Bodycote at around £1.65bn in equity and £1.85bn including debt. The statement falls under Rule 2.8 of the Takeover Code, which generally prevents CVC from bidding for Bodycote for six months. However, the firm has reserved the right to return if the Veritas offer lapses or is withdrawn with the Bodycote board’s agreement, if a third party announces a firm offer, or if the Takeover Panel judges there has been a material change in circumstances. The withdrawal brings to an end a contest that began in May, when Bodycote disclosed an unsolicited approach from Apollo. Veritas and…
- Temasek buys 9% stake in FSI as it pushes deeper into Italy's mid-market
As part of the deal, the Singapore-headquartered investment company will also commit additional capital to FSI’s future funds. The move formalises a relationship that dates back to 2018, when Temasek first invested in FSI’s funds. Since then, it has backed FSI I, which closed in 2019 and has so far delivered eight exits across its 11 portfolio companies, as well as FSI II, which closed in 2024 as Europe’s largest fund dedicated to a single country. Temasek is also an investor in Scale-up Capital Solutions, a fund FSI launched this year to target high-growth Italian SMEs. For Temasek, which…
- PKA's IIP platform raises $3.2bn for private equity with a European tilt
The move deepens the fund’s bet on private equity as a source of both returns and European economic weight, and channels fresh capital into a market it argues is starved of growth funding. The investments are being made through Institutional Investment Partners (IIP), the private markets business PKA founded and now co-owns with the Lars Larsen Group. Rather than a conventional third-party fundraise, this is a pension fund deploying capital through its captive manager, which has raised nearly DKK 21bn this year across three private equity funds investing in unlisted companies.
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