Energy infrastructure-focused private equity investor Starwood Energy Group has hired former BlackRock energy and power team senior member Philipp Pletka as a managing director.
Inflexion Private Equity has bought and merged a pair of businesses to create multi-channel home services price comparison provider Comparison Technologies.
TPG Capital and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe have teamed up with NYSE-listed Humana Inc to buy hospice operator Curo Health Services for about $1.4bn.
BC Partners and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan have invested in private equity-backed waste management business GLF Environmental to give it an enterprise value of more than C$5bn.
Consumer and retail-focused private equity newcomer Monogram Capital Partners has sealed a $152m hard cap close in its first tilt at the fundraising market.
The UK and Indian governments have made a combined £240m investment in the Green Growth Equity Fund, which is targeting green infrastructure projects in India.