Craig McGlashan

Main Capital gets busy with UK deals after opening London office

Expansion is a ‘natural next step’ for the software-focused private equity firm, Sjoerd Aarts, managing partner and head of Benelux and UK, tells PE Hub.

Providence Equity outlines the shared strategies in entertainment and B2B events investing; Brookfield to take plumbing product biz Reliance private

Eurazeo has completed a majority investment in Netco Group, a European provider of critical maintenance services for conveyor systems used in vital industries.

Providence’s Andrew Tisdale and Robert Sudo share ATG, Hyve and CloserStill playbooks

Category leaders, resilience through disruption and tech investment are key in entertainment and B2B events investing, the pair tell PE Hub.

Main buys workforce software provider Orgvue in first platform UK deal; Copilot backs renewable energy software business Green Eagle

The directors of Spire Healthcare Group, which operates 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics in the UK, have agreed to a deal with a consortium comprising Toscafund, Three Hills and Ares.

Insurance, healthcare and energy metering deals round out the week; A&D in focus in They Said It

VIPR’s platform processes around 500,000 bordereaux annually, representing about $12 billion of gross written premium, across a base of blue-chip customers.

Clifford Chance, White & Case weigh in on European Commission’s draft merger guidelines; Apax Digital backs securities finance tech platform

Fund admin in focus as Permira, CPP Investments complete JTC take-private; Inflexion adds Luxembourg arm to Baker Tilly

Inflexion made a minority investment in Baker Tilly Netherlands in early 2025 before announcing plans to merge it with the Belgian entity later that year.

Veritas takes lead on Bodycote pursuit; Epiris agrees to deal for London-listed Gamma Communications

Gamma Communications confirmed in August that Waterland Private Equity is among the firms in discussions to take the company private.

Apis Partners’ Matteo Stefanel: Evaluating payments company deals in the age of agentic shopping; Accel-KKR's Basware to buy payment fraud prevention biz

Accel-KKR-backed Basware has signed a binding agreement to acquire Trustpair in a deal pairing Basware's invoice lifecycle management platform with Trustpair's payment fraud prevention technology.

Agentic shopping could raise the bar for payments investments, says Apis Partners

‘The financial institutions will need to be able to participate in that lightspeed discussion between the various agents to facilitate the whole interaction,’ Matteo Stefanel, managing partner and co-founder, tells PE Hub.