Dealmaking

Ham Lane: US investors have never received an APAC risk premium

Asia-Pacific's lack of a risk premium does not mean it has underperformed, according to Hamilton Lane co-chief executive Juan Delgado-Moreira and co-head of Asia investments Collwyn Tan.

Baird Capital portfolio companies enjoying US growth

EQT to buy satellite ground station biz; Bain Capital in for circuit board company.

Bain Capital to acquire Italian PCB manufacturer Somacis from Chequers

Somacis serves markets such as aerospace and defence, medtech and datacentres and AI.

EQT in talks to buy Eutelsat Group’s Ground Station infrastructure biz

The Ground Station business is a global infrastructure platform.

Blackstone among PE firms betting on data center boom; private company valuations increased in Q2

Dealmakers share their outlook for the rest of the year.

AI drives demand for data centers: 7 private equity deals

Firms such as Blackstone, Angeles and Silver Oak have made deals in and around data centers in the past six months.

CVC, Nordic Capital, ADIA lock in £5.4bn Hargreaves Lansdown takeover

Business services deals in the spotlight.

Why company-led secondaries are increasingly attractive to later-stage venture investors

A white paper from Bryan, Garnier & Co lays out a number of reasons for the drastic increase in direct secondaries deals done in H1 2024.

Consello Capital unveils second deal; Blackstone, OceanSound and Sentinel go big on engineering firms

Private equity bets on engineering.

Groq deal highlights quest for faster, more efficient chips

Part two of this five-part series looks at the challenges presented by the rapidly growing data center industry, which will require a host of new technologies – and substantial venture capital investment – to meet the demands of AI.