Summit Partners has invested $56m in LearnUpon, a Dublin-based corporate education technology provider. The investment is LearnUpon’s largest capital infusion since the company was formed in 2012, according to Brendan Noud, the company’s co-founder and chief...
Kainos Capital, a private equity firm focused exclusively on the food and consumer industry, said Monday it has agreed to acquire Nutrisystem, a direct-to-consumer nutrition and weight management brand, from Tivity Health, Inc. for $575 million. The transaction is...
BlackRock Inc. says that the scale of restructuring needs globally could exceed the previous peak that followed the 2008 global financial crisis. “One big reason is the significant growth in sub-investment grade debt,” the company’s research arm, BlackRock Investment...
Singapore-based data centre operator Princeton Digital Group (PDG) on Tuesday said it has signed a deal for a $360 million investment led by Canadian pension fund Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. PDG’s biggest institutional backer, private equity firm Warburg...
China’s top ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing is considering Hong Kong for a multibillion-dollar initial public offering next year, dropping previous aims to list in New York amid rising Sino-U.S. tension, people with knowledge of the matter said. Didi, backed by... 