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General Atlantic leads USD 150m Matillion round at USD 1.5bn valuation
Series E brings the total amount raised by the business to USD 310m
Allianz holds EUR 500m first close for debut private debt fund
Fund-of-funds marks the first time that the firm has opened its strategy to institutional investors
Langholm winds up remaining assets in Verdane sale
Sale of WoolOvers, Purity Soft Drinks and Lumene sees Langholm wind up its remaining assets
BlackPeak aiming to wrap up EUR 120m fundraise by year end
BlackPeak held a first close for the fund on EUR 68.5m in June, with a target of EUR 120m
Sovereign acquires Aquitaine Group, makes two bolt-ons
Add-ons are part of the private trust and corporate services provider's consolidation strategy
Sun European names new healthcare managing director
Sun recruits Mark Braganza, a former partner at GHO Capital, to spearhead its push into healthcare
Oakley invests USD 35m in Seedtag
Deal sees Oakley acquire a minority stake in the business
Accel leads USD 140m round for CommerceTools
Series C follows the company's USD 145m funding round in 2019, which was led by Insight Venture Partners
Pictet holds USD 350m final close for Technology Fund
GP intends to launch a healthcare- and biotech-focused thematic fund in early 2022
Carlyle revives USD 1.2bn Hunkemoller sale – report
Initial plans to sell the asset were delayed by the pandemic, Reuters reports
Valuations rising as food & beverage whets PE's appetite
Within the space of a year, average pricing in the space has increased by 2.2 turns of EBITDA, research by Clearwater and Unquote shows
Nordic Capital invests in Qred
Small business lending platform is the third investment from the GP's Evolution Fund
H&F increases Zooplus take-private offer
Increase from EUR 3bn to EUR 3.29bn follows competing takeover interest from EQT and KKR
CVC acquires secondaries specialist Glendower Capital
Strategic partnership comes four years after Glendower completed a spin-off from Deutsche Bank
HIG to collect first-round bids for Conet next week
Mid-cap private equity firms are taking an interest in the asset, sources say
Perwyn names le Huray as partner
Le Huray joins the firm from Hg, where he was an equity partner
Providence to acquire Apax's Marlink for USD 1.4bn
Both firms announced in August that they had entered exclusive negotiations
UK remains priciest PE market in Europe
LTM average entry multiple for UK buyouts stood at 13.2x in Q2 - up by nearly two and a half turns of EBITDA year-on-year
Mobeus sells VCT business to Gresham House
Mobeus intends to focus on its UK small-cap buyouts business, including raising Mobeus Fund V
Aeternum et al. invest in Hg's Visma at EUR 16bn EV
Deal sees Aeternum Capital, Government Pension Fund Norway (Folketrygdfondet), Vind and GIC invest
KKR, Bain among suitors for Unilever's tea business
Cinven, Blackstone, Apollo, CD&R and CVC are among the other sponsors considering bids
DBAG eyes Italian B2B industrials, services deals via local subsidiary
Deutsche Beteiligungs AG has established a Milan office, hiring Giovanni Revoltella as partner
KKR fully exits SoftwareOne
KKR took 25% in the company in 2015; it listed in 2019 and now has a CHF 4bn (EUR 3.6bn) market cap