#private-equity

Blackstone and TPG are seeking more than $4B for Hologic’s surgical unit, the Financial Times reported. The carve-out would help pay down debt and return cash after the firms’ $18.3B buyout of Hologic.

EasyJet shares rose 10.5% after the airline agreed in principle to a £5.5B ($7.3B) takeover bid from Castlelake. The offer followed a rejected £4.93B proposal and pushed the stock to a new 52-week high.

A £5.7B possible offer for DCC from KKR and Energy Capital Partners is facing opposition from Ninety One, Aviva Investors and Fidelity International. The revised terms are £65.25 in cash plus a £1.4722 final dividend per share, with the consortium due to make-or-walk by July 8.

Bridgepoint $BPT agreed to acquire Kayne Anderson Real Estate for about $1.393B, including $759M cash and roughly 189M newly issued shares. Reuters reported the stock up 9.3% after the announcement, while Bridgepoint said pro forma AUM would rise to about $117B.

Roughly $1B is the reported price for Bridgepoint’s talks to buy Kayne Anderson’s real estate arm. The unit would add about $22B of assets under management and expand Bridgepoint’s U.S. property platform.

International Flavors & Fragrances $IFF agreed to sell its Food Ingredients business to CVC for about $4.3B, above the $500M Tier-1 M&A threshold. The unit generated nearly $3.1B of 2025 sales and about $430M of EBITDA.

In a February 14, 2026 notice, OpenAI said Robinhood’s EU ‘OpenAI tokens’ are not OpenAI equity and were not issued through any OpenAI partnership. The company reiterated that any OpenAI equity transfer requires prior company approval.