Financial services

Industrial deals 'skittish to launch' and taking longer to close, say investment bankers; companies for sale update

Excerpt from a deep dive on the challenges facing transaction pros in industrials M&A as a result of oil price volatility stemming from the US/Israel-Iran conflict; the weekly companies-for-sale update, highlighting a trend in industrials deals: strategic buyers are prevailing over private equity firms.

Eurazeo opens new office in Munich

The office is Eurazeo's third in Germany.

Carlyle AlpInvest ramps up CVs; Olympus Partners to acquire a majority stake in Network Connex

Insights from Eric Anton, a partner at Carlyle AlpInvest, whose firm has been very active with single-asset continuation vehicles (so far this year, Carlyle AlpInvest has led four CVs); TPG is set to acquire Learfield, a media and technology company serving college athletics; Olympus Partners has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Network Connex, a provider of digital infrastructure services, from Orix Capital Partners.