Buyout house TPG is buying a business unit of software provider Forcepoint for $2.45bn from Francisco Partners, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday citing people familiar with the matter. TPG is acquiring Forcepoint’s government cybersecurity business, known as...
FC Barcelona is planning to spin-off and IPO its digital media interests into a new company on the Nasdaq exchange as part of an increasingly creative monetisation strategy. The Spanish league club is in the initial stages of planning for this divestment, which could...
LVMH-backed private equity firm L Catterton is looking to launch an initial public offering in the US for Birkenstock that could value the German sandal maker at over $6 billion, Bloomberg News reported Friday. Goldman Sachs Group and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are...
IK Partners has confirmed its £269m acquisition of Medica Group, de-listing it from the London Stock Exchange in the latest sign of a public-to-private frenzy in the UK. The private equity house tabled a bid for Medica in late April and said this morning that IK IX...
Prominent African and global institutional investors have signed on to the new $500 million Africa50 Infrastructure Acceleration Fund – a move described as an unprecedented milestone for Africa. The fund is the first private vehicle infrastructure platform... 