Western Europe

Nualight is a designer and provider of high-performance lighting services primarily for refrigerated display cases.

Convex is an international specialty insurer and reinsurer.

The acquisition strengthens Coats Group’s footwear business.

Essex-based Shawbrook provides finance to customers across the SME, real estate and consumer sectors.

Shawbrook is a specialist bank, providing finance to customers across the SME, real estate and consumer sectors. It is based in Essex.

Sources told PE Hub they expected an uptick in deals in the second half – the latest numbers suggest that optimism was warranted.

Freddo focuses on the design, installation, and maintenance of centralized refrigeration systems for refrigerated warehouses and process-cooling applications.

Rabà will oversee Blackstone’s corporate private equity activities in Europe, where it invests through its flagship private equity strategy, Blackstone Capital Partners, and its long-dated private equity strategy, Blackstone Core Equity Partners.

CVC will remain invested as a minority shareholder alongside Banijay Group as well as Tipico’s and Betclic’s founders.