Direct deals attracted globally a record $47bn in 2024, up 51% on the previous year, according to data compiled by Houlihan Lokey. That impressive expansion is particularly striking given lacklustre ...

The Financial Conduct Authority is preparing to release the results of a probe into private markets valuations, but firms are still falling short on how they mark assets, according to experts.

Successful firms are increasingly split between behemoths with several business lines and those focusing on their roots of buying companies.

Advisers scored lucrative roles on deals in 2024 including Sanofi’s consumer healthcare sale and the take-private of UK cyber ...

The London Stock Exchange’s junior market has been such a failure that it should be closed down, a report by the Tony Blair ...

EQT has named company veteran Per Franzén to be the Swedish private equity giant’s next chief executive. Franzén will assume ...

Its latest vintage of infrastructure funds, DIF VIII & Value Add IV, were both launched in January, with a combined target ...

Bain Capital has bought a German facilities manager from PAI Partners. Apleona, a European company based near Frankfurt, has ...

Cinven has agreed to sell footwear, handbag and accessories brand Kurt Geiger to US-listed fashion giant Steve Madden. The ...

BlackRock’s takeover of Preqin has been cleared by the UK’s competition watchdog. The Competition and Markets Authority gave ...

AlixPartners has promoted Catherine Sherwin and Mark Veldon to the role of EMEA co-heads. The consultancy giant said that the ...

Clifford Chance has hired a director from private equity firm KKR as a partner in its London M&A team. Patrick Scott is a ...