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Blackstone and CPPIB to acquire AirTrunk from Macquarie Group and PSP Investments for AUD24bn.?

Harbour Energy completed the acquisition of the E&P business of Wintershall Dea from BASF and LetterOne for $11.2bn.?

KKR and Bain Capital are bidding to acquire FUJI SOFT for?$4.1bn deal.?

Carlyle nears a $13bn sale of Sedgwick stake to Altas.?

Brookfield courts ADQ and GIC to join Grifols' $8.9bn takeover bid.

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Blackstone and CPPIB to acquire AirTrunk from Macquarie Group and PSP Investments for AUD24bn.?(FS)

Investment companies Blackstone and CPP Investments | Investissements RPC agreed to acquire AirTrunk , a hyperscale data centre platform, from Macquarie Group , a global investment banking and financial services group, and PSP Investments , a capital market company, for AUD24bn ($16bn).

“AirTrunk is another vital step as Blackstone seeks to be the leading digital infrastructure investor in the world,” Jon Gray, Blackstone President and Chief Operating Officer.

Blackstone is advised by Citi and MorrisBrown Communications Pty Ltd (led by Hayley Morris).

Harbour Energy completed the acquisition of the E&P business of Wintershall Dea from BASF and LetterOne for $11.2bn. (FS)

Harbour Energy , a UK oil company, completed the acquisition of the E&P business of Wintershall Dea , an operator and project partner across the entire E&P value chain, from BASF , a chemical company, and LetterOne , a long-term investment business, for $11.2bn.

“We are extremely proud to have completed the Wintershall Dea acquisition. It marks our fourth and most transformational acquisition since we were founded in 2014, and is another big step forward as we continue to build a large, global independent oil and gas company focused on the safe and responsible production of the oil and gas the world still needs," Linda Z Cook, Harbour Energy CEO.

Harbour Energy was advised by Barclays (led by Michael Powell, Ben Plant and Robert Mayhew), J.P. Morgan (led by James Janoskey and Daniele Apa), Jefferies (led by Sam Barnett), Clifford Chance (led by Steven Fox and Simon Williams) and Brunswick Group (led by Patrick Handley and William Medvei). Financial advisors were advised by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (led by Dan Hirschovits) and Linklaters (led by Toby Grimstone). BASF was advised by Morgan Stanley and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (led by Graham Watson, Sabrina Kulenkamp and Rick van Aerssen). LetterOne was advised by Societe Generale , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (led by Shaun Lascelles and?Amy Kennedy), Hogan Lovells (led by Sylvain Dhennin) and FGS Global (led by Charles Chichester).

KKR and Bain Capital are bidding to acquire FUJI SOFT for?$4.1bn deal.?

KKR , a global investment firm, and Bain Capital , a private investment firm that specializes in private equity, venture capital, credit, public equity, impact investing, life sciences and real estate, are bidding to acquire 富士ソフト株式会社 ,?an independent software developer, for?$4.1bn deal.

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“As Japan's IT services industry enters a transformative period of digitalization marked by the expanded use of cloud, IoT, and generative AI, we are pleased to have the opportunity to invest in a market leader in FUJI SOFT. We look forward to leveraging KKR’s global platform and industry expertise in the IT services sector to accelerate FUJI SOFT’s long-term growth and to unlock greater value for Japanese businesses and their customers,” Hiro Hirano, KKR Asia Pacific Deputy Executive Chairman and KKR Japan CEO.

KKR is advised by MUFG and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (led by?Jonathan Stradling).

Carlyle nears a $13bn sale of Sedgwick stake to Altas. (FS)

The Carlyle Group is in advanced talks to sell a minority stake in claims management company Sedgwick to Altas Partners .

The potential deal values Sedgwick at about $13bn. A deal could be announced within weeks, assuming talks don’t fall apart, Bloomberg reported.

Brookfield courts ADQ and GIC to join Grifols' $8.9bn takeover bid. (FS)

Brookfield Asset Management is in talks with several investment funds to join its bid to acquire Spanish blood-plasma company Grifols .

Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ and Singaporean counterpart GIC are among the investors that Brookfield has held discussions with over a potential partnership.

Brookfield and the Grifols family, who are working together to potentially take the company private, have yet to present a formal offer to the Grifols board and are waiting to complete their due diligence. Any proposal could give the company an equity value of around €8bn ($8.9bn), Bloomberg reported.

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