Digital experience analytics company Contentsquare has received a $500m investment led by SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund 2, bumping the technology company’s valuation up to $2.8bn. The SoftBank fund will join existing investors Eurazeo , Bpifrance, KKR & Co.,...
BDT Capital Partners LLC is taking a majority stake in Culligan International Co., becoming the latest in a string of private-equity firms to own the water-treatment specialist, officials from the companies said. The parties aren’t disclosing terms of the deal, to be...
A BlackRock Inc. unit and the New Mexico Educational Retirement Board are coleading a roughly $700m deal to give aerospace and power generation investor AE Industrial Partners more time to manage certain prized assets. BlackRock’s secondary and liquidity solutions...
Amazon is nearing a deal to acquire MGM Studios, the co-owner of the James Bond franchise and other film and TV series, for between $8.5 billion and $9 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The acquisition of MGM, which is owned by US private equity...
Noom, whose app is designed to help people lose weight by changing their behavior, raised $540 million in a new funding round as it seeks to expand into other realms of personal health. Private equity firm Silver Lake led the round, which also included investors such... 