Daily Deal Sheet | Sept 4, 2025

Captured from posts published in the 24-hour window ending 3 Sept 2025 (GMT).

Why it matters

• AI and healthcare dominated ticket sizes: Anthropic’s $13bn Series F and Evernorth’s $3.5bn buy of Shields headline a day that also featured Anglo American’s $2.4bn divestment in metals and mining.

• Financing and sponsor activity were busy across software and services, from NBCS’s minority deal in Sphera to Foresight’s facilities platform building—and lender consolidation with Shawbrook/ThinCats.

📝 Deal & Investment Highlights

• Investors undisclosed → Anthropic — $13,000,000,000 Series F (Technology/AI)

• Evernorth Health → Shields Health Solutions — $3,500,000,000 majority buyout (Healthcare Services)

• Buyer undisclosed → Valterra Platinum — $2,400,000,000 divestiture (Metals & Mining; seller: Anglo American)

• Neuberger Berman Capital Solutions (with Blackstone) → Sphera — Minority investment (SaaS)
  • Buy-side IB: Harris Williams — Mathew T., John Neuner

• Keurig Dr Pepper → JDE Peet’s — Majority buyout (Food & Beverage)
  • Buy-side IB: Lazard — Adam Taetle

• Shawbrook Group → ThinCats — Majority buyout (Lending & Credit)
  • Sell-side IB: Fenchurch Advisory Partners

• Mediq → C&P Medical — Majority buyout (Healthcare Services)
  • Sell-side Legal: gunnercooke — Jahid Ali, Hasin A., Emma Tegerdine; Investor team: Peter Shaw, Julia Shaw

• A&M Capital Europe → Isla Délice — Majority buyout (Food & Beverage; seller: Perwyn)
  • Sell-side IB: Macquarie Capital — Magnus Scaddan

🆕 Adviser Intel on Previously-Flagged Deals

• Sphera → Neuberger Berman Capital Solutions — added Sell-side IB: William Blair.

👤 Notable People Moves

• Rob Fisher — Global Head of Advisory | KPMG International (ex–Vice Chair, Advisory, KPMG US)

• Stephen Chase — Global Head of AI & Digital Innovation | KPMG International

• Christian Brucher — MD & Global Head, Infrastructure Industry Group | Santander Corporate & Investment Banking

• Adam Selipsky — Senior Technology & AI Strategy Advisor | KKR

• Kristin Zimmerman-Sorio — Partner | PJT Partners

• Ashwin Punde — Global Co-Head of Energy Investment Banking | Cantor Fitzgerald

• Angel Quek — Partner, Leveraged Finance | Linklaters

• Dmitry Shevelenko — Director (Board Member) | Lazard

• Eric Öström — Director — M&A Corporate Finance | PwC

• Sandrine Janssen — Investment Professional | 365 Capital

• Alisdair Brady — Vice President | Global Infrastructure Partners

• Stefan Meulenberg — M&A Associate | Rabobank North America (New York)

• Deal Involvement (select): John Neuner — Co-CEO | Harris Williams (NBCS → Sphera); Magnus Scaddan — Head of Consumer Goods/Retail IB, EMEA | Macquarie Capital (Isla Délice → A&M Capital Europe)

🔍 Sector Snapshots
Technology & Software

• Neuberger Berman Capital Solutions (with Blackstone) → Sphera — n/d minority investment (SaaS). Buy-side IB: Harris Williams — Mathew T., John Neuner.

• Investors undisclosed → Anthropic — $13,000,000,000 Series F (AI).

• Quiet Capital, Shine Capital → Orchard Robotics — $22,000,000 Series A (AgTech & sensors).

Healthcare

• Evernorth Health Services → Shields Health Solutions — $3,500,000,000 majority buyout (Healthcare Services).

• Mediq → C&P Medical — n/d majority buyout (UK). Sell-side Legal: gunnercooke — Jahid Ali, Hasin A., Emma Tegerdine.

• Evestia Clinical (Kester Capital) → Atlantic Research Group — n/d add-on (Contract Research). Buy-side IB: BDO UK — Alastair Feasey.

• D.M.G. ITALIA S.R.L. → PROIEZIONE PIÙ S.R.L. — n/d majority buyout (Contract Research). Sell-side IB: Cross Border — Carlo Montenovesi, Nicolò Donetti.

Financial Services

• Shawbrook Group → ThinCats — n/d majority buyout (Lending & Credit). Sell-side IB: Fenchurch Advisory Partners.

• J.P. Morgan → MT Finance (forward flow) — Debt financing (Lending & Credit). Sell-side IB: Interpath Advisory — Stuart Mogg.

Industrials & Business Services

• Buyer undisclosed → Valterra Platinum — $2,400,000,000 divestiture (Metals & Mining; seller: Anglo American).

• Foresight Group → Graham + Sibbald — n/d investment (Facilities platform).

• Graham + Sibbald → Aitchison Raffety — n/d add-on (Facilities platform).

Consumer

• A&M Capital Europe → Isla Délice — n/d majority buyout (France). Sell-side IB: Macquarie Capital — Magnus Scaddan.

• Keurig Dr Pepper → JDE Peet’s — n/d majority buyout (Food & Beverage). Buy-side IB: Lazard — Adam Taetle.

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