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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 posts
- AIP and Silgan agree $3.4bn takeover of Trivium Packaging
AIP would nominate two of the five directors on the Silgan MCC board. The deal values Trivium at an enterprise value of approximately $3.4bn and comes months after AIP completed its purchase of International Paper's Global Cellulose Fibers business. AIP is contributing approximately $1.0bn of cash equity to Silgan MCC, which is to combine Silgan's metal container and food and beverage cap businesses with Trivium. Silgan stands to receive approximately $2.3bn of cash proceeds and to retain a 60% controlling ownership interest. The remaining capitalisation comes from fully committed debt…
- Top private equity news of the week
Aurelius agrees carve-out of Nokia’s private wireless business The private equity firm signed a definitive agreement for the unit, which sells private wireless networks and on-site edge computing to industrial customers. The deal will be made through Aurelius Opportunities Fund V and is expected to close in the first half of 2027. Read more here . EQT to buy US real estate manager Stockbridge for up to $550m EQT will pay a base consideration of $375m, on a cash- and debt-free basis, funded from its own balance sheet. Up to $175m more may follow between 2027 and 2030 if Stockbridge meets…
- Family offices double down on private equity but turn to each other for deals
That is the central tension in the 2026 Bank of America Family Office Study , which surveyed 355 decision-makers at US family offices earlier this year. Private equity remains these investors’ favourite route to building wealth. More than half name it as the top opportunity for creating wealth today, ahead of direct stakes in companies, domestic equities, and real estate. It is also the largest slice of their alternatives portfolios, at 27.2% on average. Moreover, appetite is still growing: 59% of offices plan to increase their private equity exposure over the next one to three years. “Fewer…
- AEA Investors and BCI acquire Rensa Filtration from Audax
The new owners plan to back further acquisitions across North America and Europe. AEA invested through its Middle Market Private Equity team. Audax is not exiting entirely, as it will keep a minority stake in the business alongside Rensa’s management. Rensa designs and manufactures highly engineered air filtration products for environments where air quality is critical. Its customers include data centres, power generation, semiconductor manufacturing, healthcare, and life sciences. The company is vertically integrated, covering everything from its own filtration media and filter manufacturing…
- Mutares agrees terms to sell Polish drugstore chain Natura to Grupa Specjał
Mutares and Specjał now intend to sign a share purchase agreement and complete the deal in the fourth quarter of 2026. Closing is subject to merger clearance from the president of UOKiK, Poland’s competition and consumer protection authority, and other customary conditions. Mutares acquired Natura at the end of 2024 as a carve-out. Since then, it has run a full transformation programme at the chain. The work included completing the separation from the previous owner, overhauling the logistics model, and closing or relocating loss-making stores. Mutares also strengthened the management team.
- Forward Consumer Partners makes consumer health debut with Unilever’s Welly
Source: Minni Welly’s founder, Eric Ryan, will return to the business as a strategic adviser and board member once the transaction completes. For Forward, the deal widens a portfolio that has so far focused on food, beverages, and household products. Welly is its eighth investment since it launched in 2023. “Welly is a textbook Forward asset: a powerful brand that makes beloved products, with an enduring track record of success and significant untapped potential,” said Matt Leeds, the firm’s founder and managing partner. He added that the deal “expands Forward’s reach into new sectors of the…
- Warburg Pincus gains wider access to Ingenia’s books as talks run into extra time
Meanwhile, the two sides have extended negotiations over a process deed that would set the terms of a possible take-private of the Australian land lease and holiday parks operator. According to an announcement on Tuesday, the parties will now try to agree the deed by no later than Friday 23 October. The original deadline was 19 October, which Warburg had made a condition of its proposal. In the meantime, Ingenia will let the private equity firm carry out comprehensive due diligence. The proposal values Ingenia at A$5.25 ($3.67) cash per stapled security, to be implemented through a scheme of…
- Charlesbank backs trial firm WSHB through new management services platform
Because the deal uses a management services organisation (MSO), the private equity firm is backing the firm’s business operations rather than buying into the law firm itself. Under the deal, WSHB has created WSHB Support Services, a separate company that will run the firm’s non-legal operational infrastructure, and Charlesbank’s capital goes into this vehicle. The law firm stays independent, and its lawyers keep sole control over the practice of law and client matters. That separation matters because the American Bar Association’s model rules, which most US states follow, generally bar…
- Blackstone closes fifth energy fund at $8.7bn hard cap
The close continues a run of rapid growth for the franchise. In February 2025, BETP IV closed at its own $5.6bn hard cap, about a third larger than the fund before it. The strategy dates back to 2012, when Blackstone raised just over $2.5bn for Blackstone Energy Partners, its first dedicated energy-focused private equity fund. David Foley led that fund too, and at the time he noted its success “in an otherwise difficult fund raising environment.” Blackstone says that, as of 30 June, BETP’s energy transition investments had generated a 34% net IRR since 1997. However, that figure excludes…
- KKR agrees $2.9bn sale of railcar lessor Infinity Transportation to Ares
The deal values the Atlanta-based business at an enterprise value of about $2.9bn. Infinity will be acquired by funds managed by Ares Infrastructure Equity and Ares Insurance Solutions. KKR held Infinity through Global Atlantic, which first invested in the lessor in 2016. Global Atlantic’s ownership of Infinity predates KKR’s own involvement. By December 2020, Infinity was already a Global Atlantic subsidiary, and that month it completed a $228.1m purchase of the remaining railcar fleet of CAI International, a container lessor that was leaving the rail business. KKR bought a majority stake in…
- Main Capital merges Omnidocs and WoodWing to build €70m document software group
The deal creates a software group with more than €70m of revenue. The two businesses cover different stages of the document lifecycle. Omnidocs makes software that generates and automates documents, turning business data into consistent, compliant, and on-brand output. WoodWing’s tools organise, manage, publish, and archive content, through products including Studio for multichannel publishing, Assets for digital asset management, Scienta for quality management, and Xtendis for document management. “This strategic combination of two of Main’s portfolio companies brings together complementary…
- EQT agrees $6.5bn take-private of Australian waste group Cleanaway
The Swedish firm’s sixth infrastructure fund will pay A$3.095 ($2.15) a share in cash through a scheme of arrangement. That is equivalent to a 32.1% premium to Cleanaway’s closing price of A$2.37 on 12 August 2026, the day before the approach became public. It values the company at about 20 times its FY26 underlying EBIT of A$470.2m ($327m). The binding agreement ends a two-month process. EQT first made a non-binding offer of A$3.13 a share on 3 August, after Cleanaway’s board had rejected an earlier unsolicited approach at A$3.00. When Cleanaway disclosed the proposal on 13 August, its board…
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