Commentary

DBAY, Verlinvest among PE firms picking up baked goods; Exits to be muted in Europe for rest of 2025, says Cambridge Associates; HIG Capital to buy Avanta

Avanta Salud Integral is an occupational health and safety services provider.

Peak Rock acquires manufacturing software provider Aegis; NewSpring said to tee up last-mile logistics company USPack for sale

American Securities and CD&R sell FBM to Lowe’s for $8.8bn; Apollo bets on IT services with Trace3 deal

FTV Capital and Lead Edge Capital are also making a minority investment in Highway, a tech provider that aims to reduce fraud.

KKR-backed Fortifi Food Processing extends buying spree; DuPont, Venator to test market for Viance, sources say

Core Industrial Partners invested in Immec, a South Circle, Georgia-based provider of maintenance, retrofit and renovation services.

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.

Yellow Wood, Sojourner bank on brands like ChapStick and Yardley London; Cash flow is king, according to BDO survey

Yellow Wood-backed Suave has launched 34 new products across hair care, body care and men’s care categories in the last two and a half years.

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.