Private Equity Asset Values May Be Haircut By 50% In The Next 3 Months

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U.S. private equity firm Thoma Bravo is adding Sophos Group to its cybersecurity stable, announcing on Monday a buyout deal that values the British maker of antivirus and encryption products at about $3.8 billion......»»

A Milwaukee-based financial services company growing its Dayton-area presence has completed a move into a new building at the Austin Landing development. Baird, an international wealth management, asset management, investment banking and private equity .....»»

Alternative asset manager Hamilton Lane said it has raised more $278 million for its Private Equity Fund X. The Bala Cynwyd-based firm described its new product as a global and diversified private equity multi-strategy fund. Primarily targeting sma.....»»

Bain and Carlyle are offering less for Osram than the company’s market value just a few months ago. But investors will need guts to turn them down......»»

On deals and dealmakers. UNICORN STATUSThree months after announcing an initial $50 million investment in the company, private equity giant KKR .....»»

The private equity firm is leading a $300M investment in KnowBe4 that values the startup at $1 billion. .....»»

Russia's sovereign wealth fund RDIF plans a joint investment in the next couple of months with Baring Vostok, the private equity group whose executives are facing charges in Russia of fraud, RDIF head Kirill Dmitriev told Reuters......»»

Blackstone Group LP, the world largest alternative asset manager, has raised over $22 billion for its latest buyout fund, setting it on course to be the private equity industry's biggest ever, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday......»»

A private equity-led consortium on Monday agreed to buy British satellite operator Inmarsat for about $3.4 billion in cash, six months after Inmarsat rebuffed a slightly lower cash and stock bid from U.S. satellite group EchoStar......»»

Telecommunications equipment and software vendor Avaya Holdings Corp is considering a leveraged buyout offer from a private equity firm that values it at more than $5 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday......»»

Tiger Global’s Private Equity Chief to Leave After 13 Years (Bloomberg) Lee Fixel, head of Tiger Global Management’s private equity bus.....»»

Reports of Envision Healthcare’s imminent sale have been circling for months, and the latest potential buyer is close to home. On Friday, Reuters reported that Nashville-based HCA Healthcare and private equity firm KKR & Co. have made a joint offe.....»»

Prime Group Holdings owns nearly 15 million square feet of self-storage, with an asset value exceeding $1.5 billion. In the Albany region, the self-storage holdings total about 1.5 million square feet......»»

Hedge funds, private equity firms, and asset managers have flocked to the market for loans for small and midsize companies. Investors need to be wary......»»

Less than two months after selling the Los Angeles Times, Tronc now said tro be about to sell the Chicago Tribune and the rest of its newspaper holdings to a private equity firm......»»

ISA Fire and Security of Louisville is merging with Cleveland-based ABCO Fire Protection. ISA Fire and Security distributes and monitors fire-alarm systems. It was purchased in late December by Align Capital Partners, a private-equity firm with of.....»»

A private equity fund run by Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has bought a minority stake in multi-strategy hedge fund firm LMR Partners, one source familiar with the matter said on Monday......»»

Private equity firm Thoma Bravo on Tuesday said it bought a majority stake in Apttus Inc., whose founding CEO suddenly left this summer. Kirk Krappe had hired a chief financial officer and was expected to take the company public last year. But when t.....»»

Private equity can be pushed around after all......»»