Private Equity & Private Capital News

Private equity firm D1 Capital Partners has led a $1bn investment round into Kraken Technologies, the energy software arm of Octopus Energy Group, being spun out of the UK-based clean energy group as an independent company at a valuation of $8.65bn. To a report by private equity wire. 06.01.2026

Anheuser-Busch InBev has agreed to buy back a 49.9% stake in its US metal container operations from a consortium of institutional investors led and advised by Apollo Global Management in a deal valued at approximately $3bn, according to a report by Bloomberg. 06.01.2026

TDR Capital and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice – the PE owners of UK supermarket chains Asda and Morrisons – respectively – have raised a combined £6.5bn through the sale of property assets, as both groups seek to reduce debt accumulated during highly leveraged buyouts, according to a report by the Financial Times. 05.01.2026

Dubai-based private equity firm Gulf Islamic Investments (GII) is aiming to triple assets under management to $10bn by the end of the decade, as it seeks to scale up amid intensifying competition from global and regional buyout firms active in the Middle East, according to a report by Bloomberg. 05.01.2026

Transaktionen mit mehr als zehn Milliarden Dollar nehmen zu. Was den neuen M&A-Boom antreibt, welche Branchen im Fokus stehen – und warum der Markt nach Jahren der Flaute an Dynamik gewinnt. Nach einem Report des Handelsblatt. 05.01.2026

Washington-based private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners has agreed to sell its portfolio company Stellant Systems, Inc to aerospace components specialist TransDigm Group in a transaction valued at $960m, according to a report by Bloomberg. 02.01.2026

KKR’s efforts to take Japanese herbal tonic maker Yomeishu Seizo private have been derailed after the company’s largest shareholder declined to support the transaction, according to a report by Bloomberg citing unnamed people familiar with the situation. To a report by private equity wire. 02.01.2026

Apollo Global Management is set to exit Coinstar through a sale to Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC), in a transaction that will see the company’s bondholders repaid in full, according to a report by Bloomberg citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. 02.01.2026

Die Mutares SE & Co. KGaA (ISIN: DE000A2NB650) hat die Übernahme von Greer Steel Company („Greer Steel“), einem führenden Anbieter von kaltgewalzten Stahlbändern mit Sitz in Dover, Ohio, USA, von Greer Industries, Inc. erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Die Transaktion ist ein wichtiger Schritt zum Ausbau des Segments Engineering & Technology von Mutares und zur Stärkung der Präsenz […]

Heron View Partners (HVP) has formally launched as an independent private equity firm following the separation of its investment team from PineBridge Investments, after PineBridge was acquired by MetLife Investment Management. To a report by private equity wire. 31.12.2025

HIG Capital has entered into a binding agreement to sell its portfolio company Xtera to a joint venture led by Prysmian and Fincantieri, marking an exit from the subsea telecommunications specialist it established in 2017. To a report by private equity wire. 31.12.2025

Sogenannte «Continuation Vehicles» werden laut einem Bericht der «Financial Times» 2025 einen Fünftel des Umsatzes des Sektors ausmachen. Nach einem Report von Cash. 31.12.2025

German listed private equity holding company Mutares SE & Co KGaA has signed a binding agreement to sell its portfolio company Conexus SpA to ATS – Advance Technologies System, a wholly owned subsidiary of private equity group Maximum Return System. To a report by private equity wire. 31.12.2025