Picnic, an online grocery service based in the Netherlands, has raised $706m in funding to speed its expansion, the company said on Thursday. Picnic, which was founded in 2015, has grown quickly in the Netherlands and is expanding in Germany and to France. It said...
Warburg Pincus is seeking to raise $16bn from investors for its latest flagship global private equity fund, its biggest ever, according to people familiar with the matter. The New York-based firm is in the early stages of raising Warburg Pincus Global Growth 14, and...
Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital has struck a deal to buy Zemoga, a technology services company that provides a new route for the rapidly growing digital advertising group to win work from multinational clients. Sorrell, the founder of WPP, has turned S4 into a $6 billion...
Swedish private-equity firm EQT has ended talks to buy Australia’s Iress for $2.3bn, sending shares in the financial software company spiralling lower on Friday. Despite raising its bid three times to gain exclusive due diligence access, EQT said it had decided not to...
A strong exit market since the height of the pandemic last year has translated into high returns for alternatives funds, according to Preqin’s annual sector report published in partnership with Amundi. For private equity and venture capital funds that started... 