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Datasite: AI to Speed Up M&A

According to Datasite, over the next five years new technologies, including artificial intelligence, will transform the mergers and acquisitions process by decreasing the time it takes to perform due diligence to less than a month

KKR appoints senior adviser for support European portfolio management

Adam Warby will advise portfolio company management teams in the technology arena

PE-backed Mercell prepares for IPO

Viking Venture-backed Mercell, a supplier of digital bidding and procurement tools based in northern Europe, has announed plans for an IPO.

Summit Europe Growth Equity III closes on €1.1bn

Summit Partners Europe Growth Equity Fund III has closed on its hard-cap of €1.1bn.

Ex-IBM, Microsoft veteran Warby joins KKR as senior advisor

Former IBM and Microsoft veteran Adam Warby has joined KKR as its latest senior advisor.

AMB :- Summit Partners raises over $2.2bn for two new megafunds

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The global alternative investment firm Summit Partners has raised two new megafunds. Summit Partners Europe Growth Equity Fund III, a growth fund, closed at its hard cap with €1.1 billion ($...Article

Summit Partners closes a pair of new funds totalling $2.1bn

Summit Partners, a global private equity firm, has closed a pair of funds which have a combined capital pool of $2.2bn.

Got Milk? Sector Pros and KKR Buy Borden

Following the completion of a court-supervised sale process launched in January 2020, Borden Dairy has been acquired for $340 million by Capitol Peak Partners and KKR. At closing, Capitol Peak will assume majority ownership of

OEP Launches Spartronics

Sparton Corporation, a portfolio company of Cerberus Capital since March 2019, has agreed to sell its contract manufacturing unit, Manufacturing & Design Services (MDS), to One Equity Partners. MDS engineers, designs, and manufactures electronic and

Blackstone senior managing director Chad Pike to retire

The London-based executive spent 25 years at the firm and helped expand Blackstone's real estate businesses in Europe

Summit Partners raises over $2.2bn for two new funds

The investment firm closed venture capital and Europe-focused growth equity funds

Ex-Advent Benelux head becomes latest high-profile hire at new PE house bd-capital

Advent International's former head of the Benelux is the latest high-profile hire from new private equity house bd-capital.

GP Bullhound raises €125m for its fifth tech fund

GP Bullhound Fund V will invest in technology entrepreneurs, focusing on European growth-stage businesses in the software industry

Dealmaking slumps to 23-year low in Europe as virus fallout crushes demand

Private equity could help boost dealmaking as they look to deploy the $1.5tn of dry powder

Rothschild & Co-backed Auster Capital passes halfway in $1bn-targeting debut fundraise

Rothschild & Co-backed private equity investor Auster Capital has passed the $500m mark in a first close of its debut fundraise.

BGF software, IT investment drive in 2020 continues with Juriba deal

UK growth investor BGF has backed IT migration software provider Juriba, to accelerate its product development and drive its international scale.

INVL taps biggest PE fund in Baltics to buy recycling, waste collection busines Eco Baltia

INVL has tapped the biggest private equity fund in the Baltic region to buy a controlling stake in plastic recycling and waste collection major Eco Baltia.

Former EQT execs sail towards SEK1bn goal for second MVI fundraise

A pair of former EQT execs are more than halfway to their SEK1bn ($106m) target for their second private equity fundraise through their firm MVI Advisors.

Equistone-backed FirstPort to merge with Mainstay

Equistone Partners Europe portfolio company FirstPort is to merge with domestic property and asset management company Mainstay Group.

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