Kelsey Rees is a Senior Reporter at various leading media outlets. She focuses on themes such as technology, business and economics, and corporate sustainability, with a particular emphasis on global supply chain management and telecommunications. Kelsey’s work has been featured in prominent publications including the AOP Association of Online Publishers, KGW (NBC 8), and Yahoo Finance.
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Kelsey's coverage mainly revolves around technology, IT solutions, channel partners, acquisitions, and business strategy in the local context of London and the UK. She predominantly covers press releases and private sector announcements related to software & SaaS, business & industry, as well as sales & marketing.
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The Swiss firm raised capital from a single, unnamed Asian institutional investor.
CVC Capital Partners has closed its sixth global secondaries fund at $10 billion, the largest secondaries fund to be raised by a European manager so far this year, as the strategy continues to attract capital. Secondary Opportunities Fund VI is nearly double the size of its predecessor, which raised $5.8 billion in 2023, which in turn was twice the size of Fund IV, which closed on $2.7 billion in 2019. The largest secondaries vehicles to be raised globally this year include Clipway’s $6.4 billio
Clearlake Capital has acquired full control of Chelsea Football Club after chairman Todd Boehly and director Mark Walter sold their respective 12.8% stakes for £950 million.
Oil and gas PE deal count fell 60% quarter-over-quarter in Q2 to just 16 deals, worth $3.4 billion, as investor confidence was hit amid ongoing price volatility.
By: Kelsey Rees
Informa has agreed to buy Clarion from Blackstone for an enterprise value of £2.2 billion ($3.0 billion), a strategic exit that follows an aborted attempt to sell the London-based events business. Informa announced the deal alongside plans to separate its academic business, Taylor & Francis. Blackstone bought Clarion from Providence Equity Partners in 2017 for a reported £600 million. Last year, it launched a sale process for Clarion, targeting £2 billion. The sale had initially drawn interest f
US investor-backed deals made up nearly half of European PE deal value in Q3, as higher interest rates dragged overall activity lower.
Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic emptied the exhibition halls, PE is spending more on events than it did before the pandemic. European B2B events have attracted €3.6 billion (about $4 billion) across 21 PE deals so far this year, up from €2 billion across 25 deals in 2019, according to PitchBook data. The year has seen a string of European B2B events deals involving PE investors. Most recently, Blackstone agreed to exit Clarion to events giant Informa for an enterprise value of £2.2 billion
The UK's 2026 Autumn Budget delivered little change to PE, easing the nerves of firms dreading major hikes.
Advent is the fifth firm to open in Abu Dhabi since late September, after EQT, Pantheon, Eurazeo and New Mountain.
By: Kelsey Rees
Private equity is doing more chip deals than in any year since 2022, albeit at smaller ticket sizes—Paris-based asset manager Ardian has just raised €1 billion ($1.1 billion) to bet that's where the opportunity lies.
