Private equity firm Thoma Bravo will acquire cybersecurity firm SailPoint Technologies for $6.12bn, the latest deal that underscores the heightened interest in the security software market. Cybersecurity is a hot market right now, having attracted billions of dollars...
Global investment firm Carlyle announced today that it has agreed to acquire Abingworth, a transatlantic life sciences investment firm with over $2bn in assets under management (AUM), to bolster Carlyle’s leading global healthcare franchise. This transaction will...
Advent International has agreed to buy Italian dessert ingredients maker IRCA from rival Carlyle Group, in a sign of buoyant private equity dealmaking despite market disruption caused by the war in Ukraine. Financial terms were not disclosed, but people close to the...
Havencrest Capital Management, a Dallas-based healthcare private equity firm, is pleased to announce the final closing of its second private equity fund, Havencrest Healthcare Partners II. Fund II, which was oversubscribed, closed at its hard cap of $356m, exceeding...
Private equity firm Hellman & Friedman has agreed to buy a majority stake in Information Resources, a market-analytics business backed by Vestar Capital Partners and New Mountain Capital, with plans to merge it with portfolio company NPD Group. The deal values the... 