Craig McGlashan

Warburg Pincus’ Peter Deming spies European banking opportunities as investment memos stack up; Foresight exits outsourced fleet management biz to Premius

Foresight Group has announced the exit of Plantexpand, selling the outsourced fleet maintenance business to Premius Capital.

Warburg Pincus’s Peter Deming has ‘fresh eyes’ on banking deals amid AI disruption

‘I think of banks as having incredibly rich data. AI is going to be an opportunity for them to move up the value chain as a service provider,’ says the co-lead of European financial and business services.

AI a catalyst for UK take-private flurry; Ridgeview signs latest deal with car dealership software biz Pinewood

Ridgeview’s offer values Pinewood’s total equity at £545 million, which gave a premium of 43 percent to the company’s share price on July 23.

Oakley plays in AI accuracy drive with Graphwise acquisition; CataCap backs data protection company

CataCap has acquired a majority stake in B4Restore, a Danish provider of data protection services.

THL to buy website traffic management business from GRO; Columna in strategic exit from Swiss dental group

Columna Capital has sold its majority stake in Ardentis Cliniques Dentaires.

BNPP AM Prime’s Pascal Christory: ‘There won’t be enough capital for everybody’

Concentration at the top of the fundraising charts is one factor driving interest in GP stakes, he tells PE Hub.

Private equity invests in travel and tourism; Westbridge to buy stake in financial planner from Foresight

WestBridge has agreed to buy a majority stake in Beckett Investment Management, an English financial planning business, from Foresight Group.

Solar energy draws private equity interest; Providence agrees to sale of live entertainment business ATG

ATG operates 70 venues across the UK, the US, Germany, and Spain, including seven on Broadway and 10 in London’s West End.

Private equity plays in growing European HVAC market; Exponent closes €750m CV for H&MV Engineering; Nvidia plans partnerships with host of PE firms

Partners Group in talks to buy beauty biz Aroma-Zone from Eurazeo; CVC, Veritas Capital vie for Bodycote

Bodycote is a heat treatment and metallurgical services provider.