https://finance.yahoo.com/news/private-equity-permira-buys-stake-swedish-payments-firm-075447467–sector.html
[[[[[Permira]]]]] will acquire the Klarna stake from existing shareholders General Atlantic and DST Global, and the Sweden-based firm's co-founder Niklas Adalberth.
General Atlantic and DST Global will cease to be shareholders in Klarna after the deal, they added in a statement.
Klarna, which says it handles 650,000 transactions per day, got a banking license from Sweden's financial watchdog last month, two weeks after[[[ Anders Holch Povlsen]]], owner of Danish fashion retailer Bestseller, bought a stake.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-01/cinven-is-said-to-plan-raising-8-billion-euros-for-new-fund
The European private equity firm could collect as much as 8 billion euros ($9.3 billion), said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans are private. The fundraising could start as soon as this year, the people said.
A representative for Cinven declined to comment.
The private equity market is raising record amounts of cash as investors are drawn to buyout firms’ stable returns. The industry, including real estate, debt and venture funds, is sitting on about $1.3 trillion in uninvested capital, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Cinven isn’t the only firm looking to set a record. [[[[[Permira]]]]], which will begin fundraising next year, has held early stage discussions with investors to raise as much as 10 billion euros, its largest pool since the financial crisis, people familiar with the matter said in June. Billionaire [[George Soros’s]] family office is spinning out its private equity team and will pledge up to $2 billion to the group, which already oversees about $2 billion.
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