PE Hub Wire

KKR among PE firms investing in construction software; UK mega deals may mask underlying weakness, says West Monroe

Hélios is an independent road signage company in France.

OEP’s Marc Lindhorst outlines Bartec’s US growth plan; Sovereign picks up UK financial advisory biz; PAI completes €3.6bn Froneri deal

Sovereign Capital Partners has acquired Equilibrium, an independent financial advisory and fund management business.

OpenGate’s Joshua Adams: how to create value in regulation-heavy carve-outs; Mutares’ Magirus agrees to acquire customized vehicle company

Mutares portfolio company Magirus has agreed to acquire Achleitner Fahrzeugbau from Franz Achleitner-Fahrzeugbau und Reifenzentrum.

PE firms reveal approaches to EU AI Act; H&F’s Verisure opens books on Sweden IPO; Nordic’s Noba performs after listing; Apheon buys cleaning product biz

Apheon has acquired a majority stake in Golmar Italia, a distributor of branded professional cleaning and hygiene products.

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.