London Stock Exchange shareholders bless $27 billion Refinitiv deal

London Stock Exchange shareholders bless $27 billion Refinitiv deal

London Stock Exchange shareholders overwhelmingly backed the exchange’s $27 billion takeover of data and analytics company Refinitiv on Tuesday, a deal designed to broaden LSE’s trading business and make it a major distributor of market data. LSE Chairman Don Robert...
Cinven Weighs $6 Billion Sale of Synlab International

Cinven Weighs $6 Billion Sale of Synlab International

Cinven is reviewing strategic options for laboratory-services company Synlab International GmbH including a potential sale, people with knowledge of the matter said. The private equity firm has been speaking with potential advisers and could start a sale process early...
KKR scores 3x return on sale of LGC to Cinven & Astorg

KKR scores 3x return on sale of LGC to Cinven & Astorg

The deal, which has an enterprise value of £3bn, is the first one by Cinven’s seventh fund US buyout firm KKR has agreed to sell the life sciences company LGC Group to a consortium jointly led by private equity groups Cinven and Astorg. The deal has an enterprise...
Hermes raises $1.6bn for private equity investing

Hermes raises $1.6bn for private equity investing

The company’s fourth co-investment PEC IV fund, launched over a year ago, closed above $600m Hermes GPE has raised $1.6bn for private equity investing, in a combination of co-investment and pension funds commitments. The company closed its fourth co-investment...