Private equity major Apax Partners is already eyeing up to $13bn for its latest flagship fundraise, just a year after closing its $11bn Fund X vehicle. The firm is set to pick up a $100m commitment from the Minnesota State Board of Investment according to the pension...
Buyout groups CVC Capital Partners and Brookfield and two Abu Dhabi state funds have bid to buy a stake in the Middle East, North Africa and central Asia Starbucks franchise held by Alshaya Group, two sources familiar with the deal said. Kuwait-based Alshaya Group,...
Blackstone‘s growth arm has helped online visual media business Cloudinary to a $2bn valuation through a new investment round. The deal comes just a couple of months after Cloudinary reached $100m in annual recurring revenue. Blackstone has invested more than $100m in...
Blackstone is buying apartment owner Preferred Apartment Communities Inc. in a deal valued at $5.8bn, extending its bet on rental housing across Sun Belt states. Blackstone will pay for $25 a share in cash for the Atlanta-based real estate investment trust, according...
Veho, a startup that uses technology to facilitate next-day package delivery, raised $170mn in an early-stage funding round led by Tiger Global that valued it at $1.5bn. The fundraise announced on Tuesday also included SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and came six weeks after... 