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Arthur J. Gallagher to acquire AssuredPartners from Apax and GTCR for $13.45bn.

Patient Square Capital to acquire Patterson Companies for $4.1bn.

Cinven completes?the acquisition of a 70% stake in Idealista from Oakley Capital, EQT and Apax for €2bn.?

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Arthur J. Gallagher to acquire AssuredPartners from Apax and GTCR for $13.45bn.

Gallagher, a global insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting services firm, agreed to acquire AssuredPartners, a national partnership of leading independent insurance brokers, from private equity firms Apax and GTCR LLC, for $13.45bn.

Apax is advised by Kekst CNC (led by?Todd Fogarty) and Kirkland & Ellis (led by?Ted M Frankel?and?Chris Thomas).?Arthur J. Gallagher is advised by Sidley Austin LLP (led by?Brian J. Fahrney).

Patient Square Capital to acquire Patterson Companies for $4.1bn.

Patient Square Capital, a dedicated healthcare investment firm, agreed to acquire Patterson Companies, Inc., a dental and animal health distributor,?for $4.1bn.

Patterson Companies is advised by Guggenheim Partners and Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP. Patient Square Capital is advised by Citi, UBS, Wells Fargo, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Latham & Watkins (led by Stelios Saffos), Kirkland & Ellis (led by Maggie Flores, Michael Weisser and Oliver Yee) and Prosek Partners. Debt financing is provided by Citi, UBS and Wells Fargo.

Cinven completes?the acquisition of a 70% stake in Idealista from Oakley Capital, EQT and Apax for €2bn.

Cinven, a private equity firm, completed the acquisition of a 70% stake in idealista, an online real estate classifieds platform, from Oakley Capital, a pan-European private equity investor, EQT Group, a private equity company, and Apax, an investment firm, for €2bn ($2.17bn).

Idealista was advised by Morgan Stanley, Clifford Chance (led by?Samir Azzouzi) and Dentons (led by?Jesus Duran). Cinven was advised by J.P. Morgan (led by?Ignacio de la Colina), Freshfields (led by?Armando Albarrán) and Community Group (led by?Roberto Patriarca). Oakley Capital was advised by Deutsche Numis (led by?Nathan Brown), Paul Hastings (led by?Jamie Holdoway?and?Anu Balasubramanian) and Greenbrook (led by?Robert White). EQT was advised by A&O Shearman (led by?Inigo del Val). Apax was advised by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (led by?James Howe?and?James Campisi) and Uría Menéndez (led by?Juan Martin Perrotto).

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