Daily Deal Sheet | Weekend Edition | Aug 29, 2025–Aug 31, 2025

Written By Allison Sabaroche

Captured from posts published Friday–Sunday ending 31 Aug 2025 (GMT).

Why it matters

A $1.2bn utilities platform buyout (TAQA → GS Inima) set the weekend’s tone, alongside a $1.0bn U.S. midstream carve-out and a £500m UK battery-storage injection. Technology and healthtech stayed hot with fresh platform LBOs and minority stakes, while Europe’s adviser benches were unusually visible on cross-border moves.

📝 Headline Transactions & Key Players

  • TAQA → GS Inima — $1,200,000,000 majority buyout (Energy | Utilities)
    • Buy-side IB: Rothschild & Co — Iñigo Pañeda, Edoardo Fassati, Saeed Al Awar; Investor team: Jasim Thabet, Steve Riddlington

  • Harvest Midstream → Natural gas gathering & processing assets (from MPLX LP) — $1,000,000,000 divestiture (Energy | Midstream & Pipelines)
    • Seller: MPLX LP

  • Aware Super, Equitix, UK National Wealth Fund → Eelpower Energy — £500,000,000 minority investment (Energy | Energy Storage)

  • The Carlyle Group → intelliflo (from Invesco Ltd.) — $200,000,000 majority buyout (Financial Services | FinTech)
    • Seller: Invesco Ltd.

  • Sidara → Wood Group PLC — Public-to-Private (Energy | Oilfield Services)
    • Sell-side IB: Europa Partners

  • Interogo Holding (with EQT X, First Kraft AB) → Fortnox — Minority stake (Technology | SaaS)
    • Buy-side Legal: Hammarskiöld — Sanna Isaksson, Ola Åhman

  • BC Partners → IGS GeboJagema (with Smile Invest, Rabo Investments) — Majority buyout (Healthcare | Medical Devices)
    • Sell-side IB: Rothschild & Co — Jean-Francois Limpens

  • GTCR → Innovative Systems — Majority buyout (Technology | SaaS)

  • Anzu Partners → ExOne GmbH & EnvisionTec GmbH — Twin acquisitions to deepen European additive manufacturing (Industrials | Machinery)
    • Buy-side Legal: Morrison Foerster

  • Gigstreem — inaugural ABS issuance — Debt financing (Telecommunications | Fiber & Broadband)
    • Buy-side IB: Houlihan Lokey — William Fanning, Mario Manna, Nathaniel Waldeisen + team

  • Amcor → Petpolymers — Majority buyout (Industrials | Chemicals, Brazil)
    • Sell-side IB: Ártica; Sell-side Legal: Ogawa, Lazzerotti & Baraldi Advogados — Rodrigo Baraldi dos Santos, Thomaz Jorge Wassall, Aline Awdrey Ribeiro; Buy-side Legal: Veirano Advogados

↪️ Plus 26 more transactions captured in the weekend ledger in the full database.

🆕 Adviser Intel (new details)

  • Elleair Komili → Evyap Holding — Sell-side FA PwC Türkiye team named: Caner D., Irem Senturk Colak, Mehmet Pancaroğlu (Consumer | Personal Care).

  • Logix ITS → TAPCO (Peak Rock Capital) — Sell-side IB named: Harris Williams — Bob Baltimore (Industrials).

  • Onno de Groot — Partner | Clearwater (Aarhus, Denmark) — Deal involvement: Tivoli Friheden sale.

  • Alexandra Heggie — Senior Associate Solicitor (Pensions) | Squire Patton Boggs — Deal involvement: ROM Group pension scheme → Just Group (buy-in).

  • Shaun Browne — | Houlihan Lokey — Deal involvement: LAKRIDS BY BÜLOW → IDG Capital.

  • Vladimir Dašić — Senior Partner | BDK Advokati — Deal involvement: Continental OESL → Regent.

👤 People on the Move

  • Sasan Munro — TMT Vice President | Bank of America.

  • David Lopez — Chief Technology Officer | SMAART Company (ex-Founder, ecom industries).

🔍 Sector Snapshots

Energy & Infrastructure

  • TAQA → GS Inima — $1,200,000,000 majority buyout (Utilities) — Buy-side IB: Rothschild & Co — Iñigo Pañeda, Edoardo Fassati.

  • Harvest Midstream → MPLX gas assets — $1,000,000,000 divestiture (Midstream).

  • Aware Super/Equitix/UK NWF → Eelpower Energy — £500,000,000 minority (Energy Storage).

  • Grundfos → Newterra (from Frontenac) — n/d majority buyout (Utilities) — Sell-side IB: Raymond James.

  • AVRIO Energie → Biogas plants (from badenovaWÄRMEPLUS) — n/d add-on (Renewable Energy).

TMT & Software

  • GTCR → Innovative Systems — n/d majority buyout (SaaS).

  • The Carlyle Group → intelliflo (from Invesco) — $200,000,000 majority (Wealthtech).

  • MariaDB → SkySQL Inc. — n/d majority (SaaS).

  • Interogo Holding (with EQT X, First Kraft AB) → Fortnox — n/d minority (SaaS) — Buy-side Legal: Hammarskiöld — Sanna Isaksson, Ola Åhman.

  • Assessio → Elevo — n/d majority (SaaS).

Industrials & Business Services

  • Anzu Partners → ExOne GmbH & EnvisionTec GmbH — n/d acquisitions (Additive manufacturing) — Buy-side Legal: Morrison Foerster.

  • Regent → Original Equipment Solutions (OESL) (from Continental/ContiTech) — n/d divestiture.

  • TAPCO (Peak Rock Capital) → Logix ITS — n/d majority (Industrial Services) — Sell-side IB: Harris Williams — Bob Baltimore.

  • One Equity Partners → BARTEC — n/d majority (Industrial Services).

  • Amcor → Petpolymers — n/d majority (Chemicals) — Sell-side IB: Ártica; Sell-side Legal: Ogawa, Lazzerotti & Baraldi Advogados — Rodrigo Baraldi dos Santos, Thomaz Jorge Wassall, Aline Awdrey Ribeiro.

Consumer & Healthcare

  • IDG Capital → LAKRIDS BY BÜLOW (from Valedo Partners) — n/d majority (Food & Beverage).

  • Balmoral Funds → Wilbur-Ellis Nutrition, LLC — n/d majority (Food Processing).

  • HID → Intelligent Observation — n/d majority (HealthTech) — Sell-side IB: Corum Group — Jeffrey Bunting, Martin Lowrie.

  • SoftServe → Hoverstate — n/d majority (HealthTech).

  • Knipper Health → eBlu Solutions — n/d majority (Healthcare Services).

Financial Services

  • Lumon → Abacus FX — n/d majority (Payment Processing).

  • ROM Group pension trustees → Just Group (buy-in) — £23,000,000 recapitalization (Insurance) — Buy-side Legal: Squire Patton Boggs — Alexandra Heggie, Kate-Emma Bailey, Patricia Bailey.

  • SMAART Company → ecom industries — $1,000,000 majority (FinTech).

  • Sands Capital → SafeRide Health — Series B (Healthcare Services).

  • Vellum Health — Series A (Healthcare Services).

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Allison Sabaroche
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