Craig McGlashan

Epiris’ Owen Wilson: Complex carve-outs in the pipeline

The mid-market private equity firm focuses on ‘complex situations around businesses that have been constrained by their ownership and so whose performance is often lagging.’

Germany’s Mittelstand in play as Vorsprung leverages family-backing; Astorg enters German insurance; KKR brings in co-investors to Spectris take-private

Spectris is a London-listed precision measurement company.

Vorsprung Partners’ Holger Rossbach: Opening up the Mittelstand

The PE firm’s entrepreneurial family backing is helping create opportunities with family- and founder-owned companies in Germany’s Mittelstand.

Dynamix’s Andrejka Bernatova: Europe’s fragmented power market limiting scalability; Axcel plans business law internationalization with new platform

AGRD Partners is a legal services group made up of six business law firms in Sweden.

PAI Partners’ Frédéric Stévenin: ‘Robust pipeline of opportunities in Europe’; Advent makes take-private bid for positioning and comms company U-blox

Inspired is a UK-based commercial energy and sustainability advisor.

PAI Partners’ Frédéric Stévenin: Investor interest in Europe accelerating

The private equity firm sees a robust pipeline of opportunities, especially across the real economy, the energy transition and automation.

PE back in European oil and gas amid ‘greater recognition’ of energy source's role; H1 energy deals that mattered; Apollo to buy Kelvion stake from Triton

Kelvion is an energy efficient heat exchange and cooling services provider.

Verdane plans northern European growth for new energy recovery portco Konvekta; H1 defense deals that mattered; Inflexion backs financial advice consolidator

Inflexion is supporting the launch of Absolute Financial Group, a new independent financial advice consolidator.

15 notable private equity deals that closed in H1 despite market uncertainty

Blackstone, Cinven, Thoma Bravo, TPG and Silver Lake were among the PE firms completing deals that stood out.

Take-privates in fashion as Advent, Nextalia plan Tinexta takeover; Blackstone announces biggest Japan deal with TechnoPro delisting

Rome-based Tinexta operates across three divisions: digital trust, cybersecurity and business innovation.