EQT, the $80.1bn Stockholm-based private markets investment firm, will acquire Baring Private Equity Asia for €6.8bn. The addition of BPEA’s eight Asia-Pacific offices and €17.7bn in assets under management will go a long way toward achieving EQT’s strategic objective...
Bayer has agreed to sell a unit making pest control chemicals for landscaping and facility management to private equity group Cinven for $2.6bn to cut debt and focus its crop science business on its core farming clientele. Cinven said in a separate statement it would...
Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street banking giant, is battling to buy a stake in Nucleus, one of Britain’s biggest platforms for financial advisers. Sky News understands that one of Goldman’s private equity funds is among four suitors for a stake in Nucleus...
Investment firm Carlyle Group has bought Italian motorcycle equipment company Dainese from Investcorp in a deal valued at $692m including debt, Investcorp said in a statement on Friday. Carlyle said it wanted to expand the business in China and the United States by...
Australian utility AGL Energy rejected an improved multibillion-dollar takeover approach from Brookfield Asset Management and billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, who wanted to accelerate the firm’s transition to net-zero emissions by more than a decade. The consortium... 