Private Equity M&A

Sep 23

Blackstone’s $16.14bn Acquisition of Airtrunk

By Kevin Xu, Nancy Huang (Melbourne University), Annabel Lai, Sanghyeon Kim, Freya Zhang, Edward Fung (HKUST University). Photo: Markus...

Jun 12

Eurazo’s €600 million acquisition of Eres

By Melvin Bergeret, Bilal Chihuailaf, Arthur Delfour, Agathe Melhem, Clément Melusson, Axel Nkam, Victor Zheng (ESCP Business School) &...

May 23

CVC minority stake acquisition values Hempel at $3.6bn

By Ryan Luk, Aviral Jain, Keerthi Komati and Dhruv Kotecha (University of Nottingham), and Carlotta Nardello (ESADE) Photo: Ahmed...

Mar 19

Cinven agrees to pay €4.9bn for a majority stake in Alter Domus

By Enrique Perez-Hernandez, Tarvo Simons, Taha Yassine, Michael Joachim ten Eicken, and Juan Pelaez (IE University) ; Edward Mazin,...

Jan 11

Bain Capital’s $5.3bn Acquisition of Guidehouse

By Jian Wee Soh, Kai Ye, Bharath Sivakumar, Aaren Tan, Arfred Garcia (Imperial College London), Devina Aggarwal, Atin Narain, Omar Ali,...

Dec 7, 2023

General Atlantic increases share in Joe & The Juice to 90% for $641m

By Marvin Stenersen, Angyan Liu, Douglas Dalén (Stockholm School of Economics), Rhys Meredith, Velizar Zlatev, Ben Jackson, Aditi Singh,...

Dec 5, 2023

Blackstone’s $2.5bn Acquisition of Civica

By Ana Almeida, Caroline Brandvold, Morrison Dobere, Angelina Gart, Nick Laterza, and Aanjay Patel (Cornell University); Aviral Jain,...

Nov 27, 2023

Apollo’s £506 mn Acquisition of The Restaurant Group (TRG)

By Ngoc Nguyen, William Hodgson, Joanne Zhu and Xunliang Huang (University of Melbourne) ; Erica Chan, Jonathan Liu, Hunter Pang and...

Nov 7, 2023

Thoma Bravo’s $8 bn Acquisition of Coupa Software (updated)

By Atin Narain, Nathaniel Mathew, Omar Ali, Shreyas Mehta, Devina Aggarwal (Yale University), Aditi Singh, Ben Jackson, Rhys Meredith,...

Apr 19, 2023

Silver Lake’s $12.5bn Acquisition of Qualtrics

By Friedrich von Storch, Enrique Pérez-Hernández and Ties Oudmayer (IE University), Ritu Joseph and Anusha Kaushik (London Business...

Apr 15, 2023

Brookfield’s $3.5bn Stake in FirstEnergy

By Rhys Meredith, Kian Patel, Oliver Platts, Velizar Zlatev and Salah Baaziz (University of Bristol), Jia Jian Gan, Kayla Ho and Michele...

Apr 12, 2023

Blackstone’s $4.6bn Acquisition of Cvent

By Mikolaj Borowiak, Argiro Charizona, Sonia Andrzejuk, Vlad Marcu (Bocconi), Gabriela Lenerte, Carl-Gabriel Jakobsson (Stockholm School...

Mar 21, 2023

Thoma Bravo’s $1.3bn Acquisition of Magnet Forensics

By Abdallah Zakaria, Filip Stoilov and Matilda Oculy (The University of Manchester), Friedrich von Storch, Enrique Pérez-Hernández and...

Mar 9, 2023

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice's $7bn Acquisition of Focus Financial Partners

By Marvin Stenersen and Gabriela Lenerte (Stockholm School of Economics), Michele Silvestri, Kayla Ho and Jia-Jian Gan (LSE) Photo: Timo...

Mar 3, 2023

X-energy’s $2.3bn SPAC Merger with Ares Acquisition Corp.

By Sean Millar, Matthew Moran and Pramoth Ragavan (University of St Andrews), and Adil Amlaiky (McGill University) Photo: Hal Gatewood...

Feb 22, 2023

Advent International’s $767mn Acquisition of Suven Pharmaceuticals

By Priyanshu Srivastava, Faisal Zia, Samuel Smith and Amarthya Chandrappa (University of Warwick), Sameer Jain (Wharton School) Photo:...

Jan 19, 2023

Todd Boehly’s £4.25bn Acquisition of Chelsea FC

By Samuel Smith, Rhodie Lianne Ferrer, Deepankumar Sakthive and Amarthya Chandrappa (University of Warwick), Adil Amlaiky, Juan Bátiz,...

Jan 9, 2023

Advent International’s $6.4bn Acquisition of Maxar Technologies

By Marvin Stenersen and Gabriela Lenerte (Stockholm School of Economics), Friedrich von Storch, Enrique Pérez-Hernández and Ties Oudmayer...

Dec 30, 2022

Thoma Bravo’s $8bn Acquisition of Coupa Software

By Mohammad Faisal Zia, Priyanshu Srivastava, Deepankumar Sakthivel and Amarthya Chandrappa (University of Warwick), Pierre Six, Mathilde...

Dec 20, 2022

Brookfield and EIG Global Energy Partners’ Planned A$18.4bn Acquisition of Origin Energy

By Carl-Gabriel Jakobsson, Charlie Blidén (Stockholm School of Economics) and Ayushman Mukherjee, Junseok Choi, Matthew L, Amar Mian...

Dec 5, 2022

KKR and GIP’s Acquisition of Vantage Towers

By Matilda Oculy, Filip Stoilov and Deimante Chailenko (The University of Manchester), Pierre Six, Mathilde Heibig, Jingying Liu and...

Nov 24, 2022

Blackstone’s $14bn Acquisition of Emerson Electric Climate Technologies

By Marvin Stenersen Stockholm and Carl-Gabriel Jakobsson (Stockholm School of Economics), Jack Lee, Ryan Chan, Jeremy Darmadi and Heather...

Nov 13, 2022

Thoma Bravo’s $1.3bn Acquisition of UserTesting

By Mohammad Faisal Zia, Samuel Smith, and Rhodie Ferrer (University of Warwick), and Yair Trachtenberg, Nikita Bezverkhniy, Markus...

Nov 9, 2022

Parcom’s $1.2bn Acquisition of Hunkemöller

By Rhys Merideth, Oliver Platts, Kian Patel, Velizar Zlatev, Saihej Ailwadhi and Nial Nolan (University of Bristol), Nancy Huang...

Oct 31, 2022

EQT’s $1.7bn Acquisition of Billtrust

By Théo Leleup and Tom Bendinelli (HEC Paris), Nishil Lakhani (University of Nottingham) Photo: Nathan Dumlao (Unsplash) Overview of the...

Oct 26, 2022

EQT’s €6.8bn acquisition of Baring Private Equity Asia

By Marvin Stenersen (Stockholm School of Economics) Photo: Tim Trad (Unsplash) Introduction With deal volume growing in Asia, EQT has...

Oct 5, 2022

Brookfield’s £4.1bn Acquisition of HomeServe

By Adil Amlaiky and Blake Dal Santo (McGill University), and Saihejpal Ailwadhi, Kian Patel, Rhys Meredith, Nial Nolan, Oliver Platts,...

May 3, 2022

The Private Equity Secondaries Market

By Dillan Pindoria, Hassan Wahba, Nishil Lakhani, Holly Bridges, and Bhav Rambhiya (University of Nottingham) Photo: Maxim Hopman...

May 3, 2022

Vista Capital Partners’ $16.5bn Acquisition of Citrix Systems

By Marvin Stenersen (Stockholm School of Economics) Photo: Lukas Blazek (Unsplash) Introduction 2021 was a big year for mergers in the...

Mar 15, 2022

KKR’s £1.56b Acquisition of Accell Group

Martin Palomar, Tom Bendinelli, Dorian Song and Léo Clément (HEC Paris) Photo: Coen van de Broek (Unsplash) Introduction On January 24,...

Nov 29, 2021

CVC Capital Partners’ £1B Acquisition of Medivet

By Marvin Stenersen (Stockholm School of Economics) Photo: Ayla Verschueren (Unsplash) Introduction During the pandemic, many around the...

Oct 20, 2021

Sydney Aviation Alliance’s $17.4B Acquisition of Sydney Airport

By Benny Lin and Paul Bernard (McGill University) Photo: VOO QQQ (Unsplash) Introduction The Sydney airport in Australia is the largest...

Oct 5, 2021

CD&R’s £7bn Acquisition of Morrisons

By Marvin Stenersen (Stockholm School of Economics) Unsplash - Kenny Eliason Introduction Over the Summer a fierce bidding war for the...

Sep 3, 2021

Cobham’s £2.6B Acquisition of Ultra Electronics

By Luc Roberts, Ratish Singh, Hirishika Rajasekaran, Benjamin Schwarzmann and Priyanshu Srivastava (University of Warwick) Photo: Andre...

Jun 22, 2021

Blackstone’s £1.2bn Acquisition of St. Modwen

By Kritika Venkat, Akhil Vajjhala and Siddharth Tripurani (NYU), Ratish Singh and Luc Roberts (University of Warwick) Photo: Breno Assis...

Apr 18, 2021

TDR Capital to acquire Arrow Global for £563M

By Martín Palomar, André Assouline (HEC), and Ratish Singh, Luc Roberts (University of Warwick) Photo: Floriane Vita (Unsplash)...

Apr 7, 2021

Hitachi’s $9.6 Billion Acquisition of GlobaLogic

By Kritika Venkat, Akhil, Siddharth T (NYU), Alexis Bernet, Martín Palomar, Kévin Insixiengmay, André Assouline (HEC Paris). Photo:...

Mar 17, 2021

Blackstone’s, GIP’s, and Cascade’s £3.5B Takeover of Signature Aviation

By Luc Roberts (University of Warwick), and Kevin Insixiengmay, Martin Palomar, Andre Assouline (HEC). Photo: Chris Leipelt (Unsplash)...

Nov 18, 2020

Blackstone sells 36% stake in Rothesay Life to GIC and MassMutual

By Kritika Venkat, Varshika Prasanna, Aman Singla (NYU) Photo: Scott Graham (Unsplash) Introduction Private equity giant, Blackstone,...

Nov 5, 2020

Seedrs and Crowdcube Agree to Merge

By Sreeja Mamillapalli, Akhil Vajjhala and Aman Singla (NYU) Introduction On October 5th, two of the biggest crowdfunding platforms in...

Oct 21, 2020

Private Equity Tech Funds

By Aman Singla and Siddharth Tripurani (NYU) Photo: Kevin Ku (Unsplash) Introduction The growth of tech in the last decade has led to a...

Sep 15, 2020

The 2020 SPAC Frenzy

By: Aman Singla, Kritika Venkateswaran, Siddharth Tripurani (NYU) Photo: Alexander Grey I. Introduction Over the past few years, private...

Sep 8, 2020

Everstone, Goldman Sachs buy into US-based Infostretch

By: Aman Singla, Akhil Anand Vajjhala, Varshika Prasanna (NYU), Anthony Borgese, Mustafa Bayramli, Shuishan Xiao (UPenn) Introduction...

Sep 2, 2020

EQT to acquire global data center provider EdgeConneX

By Alexander Bergmüller and Huang Haozhe (IE Business School), Affan Ahmed (King’s College London) Overview of the deal Acquirer: EQT...

Aug 27, 2020

Overview of Private Equity vs. Mergers and Acquisitions

By Shuishan Xiao, Anthony Borgese (UPenn) and Kritika Venkateswaran, Sreeja Mamillapalli, Aman Singla (NYU) Private Equity Private equity...

Aug 27, 2020

Blackstone’s $4.7 Billion Acquisition of Ancestry

By Shuishan Xiao, Anthony Borgese (UPenn) and Kritika Venkateswaran, Sreeja Mamillapalli, Aman Singla (NYU) Introduction On August 5th,...