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Private Equity M&A

Jan 23
Ares Management's $3.7bn Acquisition of GLP Capital Partners
By James Searle, Greg Dargue, Cameron Hansell, Ben Motamed (Durham University); Aviral Jain, Leon Gaster, Adalia Melvin, Haci Eren Sidar...

Jan 21
Apollo's $3.6bn Acquisition of Barnes Group
By Yuyu Huang, Kelly Liu, Jenny Sun, Henry Yao (John Hopkins University) ; Pierre Caye, Cédrik Nadeau (McGill University) Photo: ...

Nov 21, 2024
Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners’ $8.4bn Acquisition of Smartsheet
By Edward Mazin (UCLA), Adam Bernabeu, Mahaut Bonnet de Roovere and Malo Inizan (HEC Paris) Photo: Ahmer Kalam (Unsplash) Overview of...

Nov 21, 2024
TPG and GIC’s $7.1bn joint acquisition of Techem
By George Luo, Keshi Edirisinghe, Nika Karimi Seffat, Terry Zhang (University of British Columbia), Edoardo Tosti, Alina Shaikh,...

Sep 23, 2024
Blackstone’s $16.14bn Acquisition of Airtrunk
By Kevin Xu, Nancy Huang (Melbourne University), Annabel Lai, Sanghyeon Kim, Freya Zhang, Edward Fung (HKUST University). Photo: Markus...

Jun 12, 2024
Eurazo’s €600 million acquisition of Eres
By Melvin Bergeret, Bilal Chihuailaf, Arthur Delfour, Agathe Melhem, Clément Melusson, Axel Nkam, Victor Zheng (ESCP Business School) &...

May 23, 2024
CVC minority stake acquisition values Hempel at $3.6bn
By Ryan Luk, Aviral Jain, Keerthi Komati and Dhruv Kotecha (University of Nottingham), and Carlotta Nardello (ESADE) Photo: Ahmed...


Mar 19, 2024
Cinven agrees to pay €4.9bn for a majority stake in Alter Domus
By Enrique Perez-Hernandez, Tarvo Simons, Taha Yassine, Michael Joachim ten Eicken, and Juan Pelaez (IE University) ; Edward Mazin,...


Jan 11, 2024
Bain Capital’s $5.3bn Acquisition of Guidehouse
By Jian Wee Soh, Kai Ye, Bharath Sivakumar, Aaren Tan, Arfred Garcia (Imperial College London), Devina Aggarwal, Atin Narain, Omar Ali,...


Dec 7, 2023
General Atlantic increases share in Joe & The Juice to 90% for $641m
By Marvin Stenersen, Angyan Liu, Douglas Dalén (Stockholm School of Economics), Rhys Meredith, Velizar Zlatev, Ben Jackson, Aditi Singh,...


Dec 5, 2023
Blackstone’s $2.5bn Acquisition of Civica
By Ana Almeida, Caroline Brandvold, Morrison Dobere, Angelina Gart, Nick Laterza, and Aanjay Patel (Cornell University); Aviral Jain,...


Nov 27, 2023
Apollo’s £506 mn Acquisition of The Restaurant Group (TRG)
By Ngoc Nguyen, William Hodgson, Joanne Zhu and Xunliang Huang (University of Melbourne) ; Erica Chan, Jonathan Liu, Hunter Pang and...


Nov 7, 2023
Thoma Bravo’s $8 bn Acquisition of Coupa Software (updated)
By Atin Narain, Nathaniel Mathew, Omar Ali, Shreyas Mehta, Devina Aggarwal (Yale University), Aditi Singh, Ben Jackson, Rhys Meredith,...


Apr 19, 2023
Silver Lake’s $12.5bn Acquisition of Qualtrics
By Friedrich von Storch, Enrique Pérez-Hernández and Ties Oudmayer (IE University), Ritu Joseph and Anusha Kaushik (London Business...


Apr 15, 2023
Brookfield’s $3.5bn Stake in FirstEnergy
By Rhys Meredith, Kian Patel, Oliver Platts, Velizar Zlatev and Salah Baaziz (University of Bristol), Jia Jian Gan, Kayla Ho and Michele...


Apr 12, 2023
Blackstone’s $4.6bn Acquisition of Cvent
By Mikolaj Borowiak, Argiro Charizona, Sonia Andrzejuk, Vlad Marcu (Bocconi), Gabriela Lenerte, Carl-Gabriel Jakobsson (Stockholm School...


Mar 21, 2023
Thoma Bravo’s $1.3bn Acquisition of Magnet Forensics
By Abdallah Zakaria, Filip Stoilov and Matilda Oculy (The University of Manchester), Friedrich von Storch, Enrique Pérez-Hernández and...


Mar 9, 2023
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice's $7bn Acquisition of Focus Financial Partners
By Marvin Stenersen and Gabriela Lenerte (Stockholm School of Economics), Michele Silvestri, Kayla Ho and Jia-Jian Gan (LSE) Photo: Timo...


Mar 3, 2023
X-energy’s $2.3bn SPAC Merger with Ares Acquisition Corp.
By Sean Millar, Matthew Moran and Pramoth Ragavan (University of St Andrews), and Adil Amlaiky (McGill University) Photo: Hal Gatewood...


Feb 22, 2023
Advent International’s $767mn Acquisition of Suven Pharmaceuticals
By Priyanshu Srivastava, Faisal Zia, Samuel Smith and Amarthya Chandrappa (University of Warwick), Sameer Jain (Wharton School) Photo:...


Jan 19, 2023
Todd Boehly’s £4.25bn Acquisition of Chelsea FC
By Samuel Smith, Rhodie Lianne Ferrer, Deepankumar Sakthive and Amarthya Chandrappa (University of Warwick), Adil Amlaiky, Juan Bátiz,...


Jan 9, 2023
Advent International’s $6.4bn Acquisition of Maxar Technologies
By Marvin Stenersen and Gabriela Lenerte (Stockholm School of Economics), Friedrich von Storch, Enrique Pérez-Hernández and Ties Oudmayer...


Dec 30, 2022
Thoma Bravo’s $8bn Acquisition of Coupa Software
By Mohammad Faisal Zia, Priyanshu Srivastava, Deepankumar Sakthivel and Amarthya Chandrappa (University of Warwick), Pierre Six, Mathilde...


Dec 20, 2022
Brookfield and EIG Global Energy Partners’ Planned A$18.4bn Acquisition of Origin Energy
By Carl-Gabriel Jakobsson, Charlie Blidén (Stockholm School of Economics) and Ayushman Mukherjee, Junseok Choi, Matthew L, Amar Mian...


Dec 5, 2022
KKR and GIP’s Acquisition of Vantage Towers
By Matilda Oculy, Filip Stoilov and Deimante Chailenko (The University of Manchester), Pierre Six, Mathilde Heibig, Jingying Liu and...


Nov 24, 2022
Blackstone’s $14bn Acquisition of Emerson Electric Climate Technologies
By Marvin Stenersen Stockholm and Carl-Gabriel Jakobsson (Stockholm School of Economics), Jack Lee, Ryan Chan, Jeremy Darmadi and Heather...


Nov 13, 2022
Thoma Bravo’s $1.3bn Acquisition of UserTesting
By Mohammad Faisal Zia, Samuel Smith, and Rhodie Ferrer (University of Warwick), and Yair Trachtenberg, Nikita Bezverkhniy, Markus...


Nov 9, 2022
Parcom’s $1.2bn Acquisition of Hunkemöller
By Rhys Merideth, Oliver Platts, Kian Patel, Velizar Zlatev, Saihej Ailwadhi and Nial Nolan (University of Bristol), Nancy Huang...


Oct 31, 2022
EQT’s $1.7bn Acquisition of Billtrust
By Théo Leleup and Tom Bendinelli (HEC Paris), Nishil Lakhani (University of Nottingham) Photo: Nathan Dumlao (Unsplash) Overview of the...


Oct 26, 2022
EQT’s €6.8bn acquisition of Baring Private Equity Asia
By Marvin Stenersen (Stockholm School of Economics) Photo: Tim Trad (Unsplash) Introduction With deal volume growing in Asia, EQT has...


Oct 5, 2022
Brookfield’s £4.1bn Acquisition of HomeServe
By Adil Amlaiky and Blake Dal Santo (McGill University), and Saihejpal Ailwadhi, Kian Patel, Rhys Meredith, Nial Nolan, Oliver Platts,...


May 3, 2022
The Private Equity Secondaries Market
By Dillan Pindoria, Hassan Wahba, Nishil Lakhani, Holly Bridges, and Bhav Rambhiya (University of Nottingham) Photo: Maxim Hopman...


May 3, 2022
Vista Capital Partners’ $16.5bn Acquisition of Citrix Systems
By Marvin Stenersen (Stockholm School of Economics) Photo: Lukas Blazek (Unsplash) Introduction 2021 was a big year for mergers in the...


Mar 15, 2022
KKR’s £1.56b Acquisition of Accell Group
Martin Palomar, Tom Bendinelli, Dorian Song and Léo Clément (HEC Paris) Photo: Coen van de Broek (Unsplash) Introduction On January 24,...


Nov 29, 2021
CVC Capital Partners’ £1B Acquisition of Medivet
By Marvin Stenersen (Stockholm School of Economics) Photo: Ayla Verschueren (Unsplash) Introduction During the pandemic, many around the...


Oct 20, 2021
Sydney Aviation Alliance’s $17.4B Acquisition of Sydney Airport
By Benny Lin and Paul Bernard (McGill University) Photo: VOO QQQ (Unsplash) Introduction The Sydney airport in Australia is the largest...


Oct 5, 2021
CD&R’s £7bn Acquisition of Morrisons
By Marvin Stenersen (Stockholm School of Economics) Unsplash - Kenny Eliason Introduction Over the Summer a fierce bidding war for the...


Sep 3, 2021
Cobham’s £2.6B Acquisition of Ultra Electronics
By Luc Roberts, Ratish Singh, Hirishika Rajasekaran, Benjamin Schwarzmann and Priyanshu Srivastava (University of Warwick) Photo: Andre...


Jun 22, 2021
Blackstone’s £1.2bn Acquisition of St. Modwen
By Kritika Venkat, Akhil Vajjhala and Siddharth Tripurani (NYU), Ratish Singh and Luc Roberts (University of Warwick) Photo: Breno Assis...


Apr 18, 2021
TDR Capital to acquire Arrow Global for £563M
By Martín Palomar, André Assouline (HEC), and Ratish Singh, Luc Roberts (University of Warwick) Photo: Floriane Vita (Unsplash)...


Apr 7, 2021
Hitachi’s $9.6 Billion Acquisition of GlobaLogic
By Kritika Venkat, Akhil, Siddharth T (NYU), Alexis Bernet, Martín Palomar, Kévin Insixiengmay, André Assouline (HEC Paris). Photo:...


Mar 17, 2021
Blackstone’s, GIP’s, and Cascade’s £3.5B Takeover of Signature Aviation
By Luc Roberts (University of Warwick), and Kevin Insixiengmay, Martin Palomar, Andre Assouline (HEC). Photo: Chris Leipelt (Unsplash)...


Nov 18, 2020
Blackstone sells 36% stake in Rothesay Life to GIC and MassMutual
By Kritika Venkat, Varshika Prasanna, Aman Singla (NYU) Photo: Scott Graham (Unsplash) Introduction Private equity giant, Blackstone,...

Nov 5, 2020
Seedrs and Crowdcube Agree to Merge
By Sreeja Mamillapalli, Akhil Vajjhala and Aman Singla (NYU) Introduction On October 5th, two of the biggest crowdfunding platforms in...


Oct 21, 2020
Private Equity Tech Funds
By Aman Singla and Siddharth Tripurani (NYU) Photo: Kevin Ku (Unsplash) Introduction The growth of tech in the last decade has led to a...


Sep 15, 2020
The 2020 SPAC Frenzy
By: Aman Singla, Kritika Venkateswaran, Siddharth Tripurani (NYU) Photo: Alexander Grey I. Introduction Over the past few years, private...

Sep 8, 2020
Everstone, Goldman Sachs buy into US-based Infostretch
By: Aman Singla, Akhil Anand Vajjhala, Varshika Prasanna (NYU), Anthony Borgese, Mustafa Bayramli, Shuishan Xiao (UPenn) Introduction...

Sep 2, 2020
EQT to acquire global data center provider EdgeConneX
By Alexander Bergmüller and Huang Haozhe (IE Business School), Affan Ahmed (King’s College London) Overview of the deal Acquirer: EQT...


Aug 27, 2020
Overview of Private Equity vs. Mergers and Acquisitions
By Shuishan Xiao, Anthony Borgese (UPenn) and Kritika Venkateswaran, Sreeja Mamillapalli, Aman Singla (NYU) Private Equity Private equity...


Aug 27, 2020
Blackstone’s $4.7 Billion Acquisition of Ancestry
By Shuishan Xiao, Anthony Borgese (UPenn) and Kritika Venkateswaran, Sreeja Mamillapalli, Aman Singla (NYU) Introduction On August 5th,...
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