Europe

Healthcare and professional services to the fore with Inflexion, Mobeus, Permira, LDC and IceLake Capital involved

Inflexion’s portfolio company SteriPack announced it has acquired Kinneir Dufort, a user-centred design and product development firm.

Inflexion-backed SteriPack acquires Kinneir Dufort from Mobeus

Mobeus initially backed the buyout of Kinneir Dufort in 2016.

EQT speaks ‘the language of calibration’ with Trescal; Introducing Private Markets and the End of Cheap Money

Trescal provides regulated calibration services for testing and measurement equipment.

EQT’s Thomas Rajzbaum: Trescal’s Asia and life science push is ‘just the beginning’

Calibration services company Trescal is valued at around €1.4bn, a jump from its last sale of around €670m in 2018.

6 PE-backed deals that travelled to the Nordics

Cinven, CVC and Nordic Capital are among PE firms seeing potential in Nordic companies.

KKR makes clinical play with Apax portfolio firm spin-out; Ambienta SGR platform company packages deal

Clinisupplies manufacturers and distributes continence care products, such as urinary collecting devices and catheters.

Capital Dynamics appoints Mazzaferro as head of primaries in Europe

Andrea Mazzaferro is taking over the position from Mark Drugan, who is retiring from the firm after 34 years of service at Capital Dynamics.

Cinven and Ontario Teachers’ team up on combination deal; ArchiMed’s Natus makes first add-on

Natus provides products focused on the screening, diagnosis and treatment of central nervous and sensory system disorders.

IK Partners graduates from Studienkreis; FSN agrees to take stake in ilionx from Egeria

Ilionx offers digital strategy, cloud-oriented application development, data and AI solutions, hyper-automation services and managed services.

IK Partners exits Studienkreis to GoStudent

GoStudent, founded in 2016, is a Vienna-based edtech company that offers online tutoring sessions.