Rede Partners has launched a strategic advisory services (SAS) unit. The fundraising group told Private Equity News it has hired Nikki Ruklic, a former PE partner at Bain & Company, to lead the team.

Newly-launched private equity firm Aspirity Partners has inked its debut deal, taking a minority stake in a payments business. Aspirity Partners I has made an investment into Paymentology, an issuing ...

Startup investor Niko Bonatsos has left his role as managing director at the investment firm General Catalyst and might launch an early-stage fund. Bonatsos spent 15 years at General Catalyst and ...

PX3 Partners has hired bankers to prepare for its second fundraise less than a year after closing its debut vehicle. The London-headquartered private equity firm has drafted in advisers at Lazard as ...

Synova has promoted one of its tech dealmakers Thomas Usher to partner. The 37-year-old, who has helped the private equity firm’s European businesses enter and grow in the US market, is focused on ...

Local councillors have said that US president Donald Trump won’t be visiting Blackstone boss Stephen Schwarzman’s Wiltshire estate as a mammoth renovation on the site nears completion. Schwarzman is ...

KKR’s $4.75bn sale of data-centre cooling business CoolIT to Ecolab is poised to be one of the private-equity giant’s most successful bets ever. CoolIT’s employees are set to reap the rewards, too.

A group of senior figures at Blackstone have injected their own money into one of the company’s private credit funds to help cover a record volume of redemption requests. More than 25 senior leaders ...

The former co-head of UBS’s financial sponsors unit has re-emerged in a senior role at private equity giant Blackstone. Simona Maellare, who was most recently co-head of UBS’s alternative capital ...

CVC is gearing up to raise its tenth flagship private equity buyout fund in the first quarter of next year. In a full-year activity update, the PE giant showed signs of bullish fundraising ambitions ...

Inflexion has acquired a German manufacturer of medical products called Primed. The European mid-market firm has bought the ...

A Greek e-commerce deal marks the latest sign of how rapidly-developing technology is upending the traditional world of ...