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Langholm winds up remaining assets in Verdane sale
Sale of WoolOvers, Purity Soft Drinks and Lumene sees Langholm wind up its remaining assets
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
HIG to collect first-round bids for Conet next week
Mid-cap private equity firms are taking an interest in the asset, sources say
Providence to acquire Apax's Marlink for USD 1.4bn
Both firms announced in August that they had entered exclusive negotiations
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
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
Astorg, Goldman Sachs to sell HRA Pharma for EUR 1.8bn
Astorg and Goldman Sachs acquired the French asset for EUR 300m-500m in 2016
Jolt Capital holds EUR 271m final close for fourth fund
Fund surpassed its EUR 250m target and is more than three times larger than its EUR 83m predecessor
Risk Capital Partners leads GAK management buyout
Brighton-based musical instruments retailer GAK was founded in 1992 by vendor Gary Marshall
Apax, Warburg team up for EUR 5.1bn T-Mobile Netherlands deal
Deal values the Dutch telecoms operator at 8.7x its last-12-month adjusted EBITDA
IQ Capital lines up next fundraise
Deep-tech specialist has registered IQ Capital IV, the successor to its $175m third effort
PAI buys European Camping Group from Carlyle et al.
SBO reportedly values the camping holiday site operator in the EUR 700m-730m range
DocPlanner raises round valuing business at USD 1bn
Another undisclosed round is expected within the next year, sources say
Accedo sponsor SEB taps Raymond James for exit
SEB Private Equity acquired a majority stake in the company in June 2016
KKA acquires majority stake in CuraMed Kliniken
GP has identified two targets to expand the capacity of the mental health clinic chain