Parexel, owned for the past four years by Pamplona Capital, was seeking a sale or an IPO. Today, the rumors stopped as the CRO loudly declared it is being bought out for $8.5bn by EQT and Goldman Sachs Asset Management. The deal gives Pamplona a healthy return on the...
Buyout group BC Partners has launched an auction process for Ceramtec in a deal that could value the German maker of industrial ceramics at roughly $4.1bn including debt, people close to the matter said. Ceramtec’s products are used in artificial hips and dental...
Global investment management house Blackstone has acquired a leading provider of environmental, social and governance (ESG) software, data, and consulting services, from Genstar Capital. The deal values the acquired business, Sphera, at $1.4bn. With its head office...
Private-equity fundraising is surging as the U.S. economic recovery takes root, with the industry on pace to challenge its best year ever for gathering capital. Private-equity funds world-wide, including venture capital vehicles, closed on $459 billion this year...
Bill Gates-backed solar power firm Heliogen Inc will merge with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) to go public in a deal that values the combined entity at about $2bn, the companies said on Wednesday. The merger with Athena Technology Acquisition Corp, a... 