BEX Capital, an investment firm focused exclusively on secondaries in private equity fund-of-funds (FoF), secondaries funds and co-investment funds, has closed BEX Fund IV at 765m, in excess of its $600m target. This was the first close of BEX Fund IV, with...
2021 was a record-breaking year for healthcare investors, bouncing back from the pandemic-induced lull of 2020. Despite the ongoing impacts of Covid-19, however, healthcare private equity saw record-levels of deal volume and disclosed value, with $151bn in capital...
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... 