Buyout and growth: fund closes, deals and moves across private equity.
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Harrison Street Asset Management and Kenon Holdings agreed to acquire majority of Vicinity Energy (largest U.S. district energy provider) from Antin Infrastructure Partners at $2.92B enterprise value; Kenon deploying ~$450M equity, consortium securing $1.4B debt financing.
Sycamore Partners in advanced negotiations to sell UK retailer Boots to Weston family (via Wittington Investments) for ~$9bn; deal separation from prior $23.7bn Walgreens Boots Alliance acquisition.
Lovell Minnick's Warner Pacific acquires Beere&Purves, a 1929-founded California general agency providing employee benefits products and enrollment technology.
Thoma Bravo and 7Ridge's Trading Technologies acquire TRAFiX, a Mineola-based equities order and execution management platform founded in 2014.
EQT BPEA Fund VII exits Korea's Acuon Group (dual business: capital company and savings bank) to Hanwha Life-led consortium; deal valued at $2.92B enterprise value, ~KRW 10T assets at exit.
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