A KKR led group has withdrawn a $13bn bid for Australian hospital operator Ramsay Health Care after talks hit a stalemate, killing Australia’s biggest deal of the year and sending the target’s shares tumbling. The decision announced by both sides on Monday...
The owner of European vacation-rentals business Awaze is looking for a sale, according to a media report.The owner of European vacation-rentals business Awaze is looking for a sale, according to a media report. U.S. private equity firm Platinum Equity created Awaze...
Blackstone’s growth fund is buying a majority stake in Supergoop!, the 15-year-old sunscreen brand. The senior management of Supergoop, including founder Holly Thaggard and Chief Executive Officer Amanda Baldwin, will retain significant equity ownership after the...
The $64.6bn-managing Maryland State Retirement & Pension System has picked a trio of major private equity fundraises among its latest $1.1bn of commitments. Thoma Bravo’s mammoth new software-focused private equity fund picked up $125m from the LP, to follow a...
Mawer and M&G say £9.5bn bid from French group undervalues UK software developer A top-10 investor in Aveva plans to reject Schneider Electric’s £9.5bn takeover of the software developer on the grounds that it represents an “opportunistic bid” that undervalues the... 