Macquarie Asset Management has reportedly shortlisted Brookfield Asset Management and Stonepeak alongside French gas supplier Air Liquide in the final bidding for South Korean industrial gas firm DIG Airgas, which could sell for up to $3.6bn.
A resurgent mid-market private equity fundraising market has buoyed European PE capital raising through 2025 so far, new research from PitchBook reveals.
Asset manager IDC Network's private equity division, Valante Capital, is almost halfway to its $250m goal for its second Ascend Fund after reaching a $115m first close.
Propel Venture Partners, the seed investor launched almost a decade ago by Jay Reinemann and David Mort, has reached a $100m final close for its fifth fund.
Global alternatives firm Investcorp has scored the first exit from its fifth fund through a sale of HWG Sababa to an oversubscribed €240m single-asset continuation fund.