Dealmaking

KKR's Brandon Brahm: GeoStabilization was 'a good business we could invest in and make it great'

KKR’s exit of GSI for over $1bn not only generated great returns for the PE firm but also the employees.

Disruption Matters: How tech supercharges today's roll-ups

In this fourth episode of the third season of the Disruption Matters podcast series, we explore how technology can help add speed and rigour to roll-up strategies.

Archimed’s Denis Ribon: Why medical aesthetics are so attractive; Peel Hunt sees room for take-private uptick

Peel Hunt has found that there are 19 ongoing bids for FTSE350 companies.

Archimed’s Denis Ribon: Private setting ‘better’ for skincare business Jeisys

Jeisys develops aesthetic medicine devices that utilize lasers, pulsed light, radio frequencies and ultrasound.

DuneGlass outlines medspa strategy; Renovus exits LeapPoint; Mercer Advisors scoops up sixth add-on

Renovus sells digital advisory firm LeapPoint to Omnicom.

DuneGlass targets growth-focused add-ons for medspa platform Aviva Aesthetics

'We want like-minded, growth mindset, entrepreneurial type owners to join Aviva because those are the ones that create disproportionately high organic growth rates,' says DuneGlass's Daniel Hosler.

Partners Group sells Techem to TPG, GIC for €6.7bn; Thoma Bravo in IT management deal; Level 20’s Manku calls for more women hires at junior level

Thoma Bravo has agreed to acquire a majority stake in a pan-European provider for IT management services.

Baker Hughes to sell product groups, sources say; TPG buys the rest of DirecTV, merges it with Dish

TPG is acquiring AT&T’s remaining 70 percent stake in DirecTV for $7.6 billion.

Baker Hughes to test market for Druck, Panametrics and Reuter-Stokes, sources say

In a related deal, SCF agreed to buy KKR-backed Circor's DeltaValve business in September.

Seven2’s Bruno Candelier: Appetite returning to food sector; BC Partners’ Springer Nature sets IPO price

Springer Nature is a German academic publisher.