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Silver Lake, PIF, Affinity to acquire Electronic Arts in $55bn take-private deal; Leonard Green, Butterfly, GTCR, Incline look to single-asset CVs

Electronic Arts has agreed to be acquired by a group of investors that includes Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners in an all-cash take-private transaction valued at approximately $55 billion; GPs are turning to single-asset continuation vehicles not just for assets they can’t sell right now but even for "crown jewels."

TSCP, Roark bet on recession-resistant food and beverage franchises; Sixth Street takes minority stake in NFL’s New England Patriots

Highlighting the recession-resistant food and beverage franchise segment which has seen a flurry of deals over the past few months; Dean Metropoulos and family, and Sixth Street agree to acquire minority stakes in the New England Patriots of the National Football League; Atlas Holdings enters into an agreement to buy ODP Corporation in a deal that values ODP at approximately $1 billion.

Providence to sell auto classifieds biz La Centrale for €1.1bn; Industrial tech M&A outlook cautious but purposeful, says EY-Parthenon

Paris-based La Centrale supports over 10,000 automotive professionals with SaaS tools.

OceanSound eyes European defense tech; BasePoint ups offer for consumer credit biz IPF

Oak Hill found strategic interest in FTTH with Metronet sale; Shamrock’s Michael LaSalle is a dealmaker to watch

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