Daily deal sheet | 5 Aug 2025

Written By Allison Sabaroche

Captured from posts published in the 24-hour window ending 5 Aug 2025 (GMT).

Why it matters

Inside a single news cycle the deal machine touched everything from €4 billion energy carve-outs and $10 billion telecoms asset swaps, to bolt-on SaaS exits, debut covered-bond financings and a fresh wave of senior hires. Below is the complete ledger—deal-by-deal, adviser-by-adviser—followed by all people moves that reposition the advisory league tables heading into Q3.

📝 Deal & Investment Highlights

  • Sorgenia / EF Solare / Renovalia → Sixth Street (38 % stake, enterprise value > €4 bn)
    • F2i sell-side bankers Lazard (Marco Samaja + team); Intesa Sanpaolo; Mediobanca (Claudia Fornaro + team) │ legal PedersoliGattai │ tax Tremonti Partners
    • Sixth Street buy-side: legal Cleary Gottlieb; financial Rothschild & Co (Alessandro Bertolini Clerici + team)

  • CommScope – sale of Connectivity & Cable Solutions to Amphenol ($10.5 bn)
    • Exclusive financial adviser Evercore

  • Ali Group – $1.75 bn term & revolver refinancing of Welbilt acquisition debt
    • Borrower counsel White & Case (Michael Immordino, Stefano Bellani) │ Lender counsel A&O Shearman (Luca Maffia, Pietro Scarfone)

  • Smart Communications → Cinven (majority stake, $1.8 bn)
    • Buy-side counsel Clifford Chance (Shimin Lee, Jonny Myers) │ Financing sources counsel Kirkland & Ellis (H.T. Flanagan, Ed McCartney) │ Sell-side counsel Kirkland & Ellis (Carlos Gil Rivas + team) │ Lead banker Baird (Simon Pearson) │ Mgmt adviser Jamieson (Chris Thomas)

  • Fiamm Energy Technology → Aurelius
    • Buy-side M&A DC Advisory (Francesco Moccagatta + global team) │ Sell-side counsel BonelliErede (Stefano Micheli + team)

  • Regional & City Airports → ICG Infrastructure
    • Sole financial adviser Gleacher Shacklock

  • EnviroMix (GEF Capital) → Xylem │ Voyager Trucking → Mascarene Partners
    • Sell-side advisers Raymond James (Brendan Tierney; Leon Vayntraub)

  • UAP Limited → Allegion
    • Sell-side adviser Clearwater International (Michael Loudon)

  • Gradwell (Chiltern Capital) → Onecom
    • Sell-side adviser Acuity Advisors (Marc Horn, Dan Delooze, Wilmé Viljoen)

  • Summit Companies → BDT & MSD Partners
    • Buyer counsel Davis Polk & Wardwell

  • HNI Corporation → Steelcase ($2.2 bn)
    • Buyer counsel Davis Polk & Wardwell

  • Stabilus – €150 m incremental facility & €450 m RCF amendment
    • Borrower counsel White & Case │ Lenders’ counsel Latham & Watkins (Cora Grannemann)

  • Circuit Foil Luxembourg → Defu Technology (CN)
    • Cross-border counsel Eversheds Sutherland (Holger Holle, Barri Mendelsohn) with KWM China

  • Alpine (NL) → Gimv – acquisition financing
    • Direct-lending provider Investec (Alexandre Neiss + team)

  • Aboca → Zentiva – transfer of five OTC brands
    • Buyer counsel CMS Italy (Daniela Murer, Stefano Giuliano) │ Seller counsel Bird & Bird (Claudia Ricciardi + team)

  • Meldengaard Recycling & Sustain → RGS Nordic / Blue Phoenix (InfraVia/Daiwa)
    • Sell-side counsel Moalem Weitemeyer (Dan Moalem + team)

(25+ additional bolt-ons, venture rounds and minority stakes are logged in the full database.)

💸 Capital Raises & Structured Finance

  • Eurobank Bulgaria – first-ever Bulgarian covered-bond issue (€500 m FRN 2032)
    • Counsel to syndicate DGKV

  • Sunly – €85 m EIB project loan for 329 MW Latvian solar parks – counsel Sorainen

  • Saphyre – US $70 m growth equity led by FTV Capital (BNP Paribas continuation)

  • Handwave – €3.65 m seed round (Practica VC, FIRSTPICK, Outlast, Inovo) – counsel COBALT Legal

(Convertible loans, tokenisation plays and private credit unitranche activity also captured – see database.)

👤 Notable People Moves

  • Saad Alfadly – joins Brookfield as Chairman, Saudi Arabia

  • Robert Ohrenstein – ex-KPMG Vice Chair becomes Operations Advisor, Advent International

  • Hugues Martin-Sisteron – Partner hire, Orrick (Energy & Infrastructure, Paris)

  • Michael Ede – Partner / CFO & COO, Perwyn

  • Gregoire Lehmann – Partner, NewRoad Capital Partners

  • Anna Ike Pope – Principal, HGGC

  • Line Kristine Gauteplass – Senior Investment Manager, Foresight Group

  • Ben Jones – Director, Key Capital Partners

  • Dominic Renshaw – Managing Director, Blazehill Capital

  • Tarja Pirinen – Partner, Castrén & Snellman (Energy & Green Transition)

  • Brookfield taps former PIF CEO to chair Saudi platform (+10 further senior hires)

(Full list—40+ promotions & additions—available via newsletter.)

Sector Snapshots

Energy & Infrastructure – Sixth Street’s Sorgenia stake, Defu’s European copper-foil expansion, EIB solar mega-loan, Data4 attracts Interogo & Arjun.

TMT & Software – Cinven buys Smart Comms, Amphenol scoops CommScope CCS, Sage/Fyle, Hexaware/SMC Squared, Defu-CFL cross-border.

Industrial & Services – Allegion adds UAP; NDT Global picks up Entegra; Xylem buys EnviroMix.

Consumer & Healthcare – Zentiva takes heritage Aboca brands; Freeman Spogli buys Philz Coffee; Foster Clark moves on Preziosi Food (Houlihan Lokey, PwC lead).

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Allison Sabaroche
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