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Private equity giant KKR has picked up a majority stake in Nature's Bounty from The Carlyle Group at an enterprise value of about $3bn.

Global buyout giant Carlyle Group has appointed Cam Dyer and Patrick McCarter to co-heads of global technology.

Trilantic North America has tapped its $2.2bn fifth fund to buy a majority stake in shoe insole business OrthoLite through an exit by Blue Point Capital Partners.

Providence Equity Partners has more than doubled its initial investment in global events business Clarion Events through a sale to Blackstone after less than three years of ownership, AltAssets can reveal.

Calera Capital has made a relatively rapid exit of portable toilet business United Site Services to fellow buyout house Platinum Equity Partners.

The infrastructure sector is perfectly primed for investment according to Astarte partner Spiros Skordos, whose real assets firm launched an international expansion earlier this week.

Global investment firm KKR's head of Asia public affairs, Steve Okun, has reportedly left the firm just weeks after it closed its mammoth third Asia fund.

Private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners has exceeded its hard cap to close its fourth fund at $2.65bn.

CVC and PAI Partners have agreed to buy out fellow private equity house Permira from the trio's long-held Spanish retailer Cortefiel.

US buyout major KKR has agreed a $2.8bn take-private deal for online health information business WebMD through portfolio company Internet Brands.