Permira Acquires Majority Stake in Acuity Knowledge Partners from Equistone

Equistone Acquires Moody's Analytics Knowledge Services (rebrands as Acuity Knowledge Partners)

July 16, 2019

Financial Services

Equistone Partners Europe has agreed to acquire Moody's Analytics Knowledge Services from Moody's Corporation in a management-backed buyout. The business, headquartered in London and operating across nine delivery centres worldwide, will rebrand as Acuity Knowledge Partners and continue to be led by its incumbent management team, who invested alongside Equistone.

Acuity Knowledge Partners Acquires Cians Analytics

September 12, 2022

Professional Services

Acuity Knowledge Partners, backed by Equistone, acquired Cians Analytics in a bolt‑on add‑on to expand its research, analytics and KPO capabilities for financial services clients. The acquisition will integrate Cians’ research, data ingestion platform (LeverData) and analytics talent into Acuity’s global offering; financial terms were not disclosed.

Acuity Knowledge Partners Acquires PPA Group

July 1, 2024

Data & Analytics

Acuity Knowledge Partners has acquired PPA Group, a Germany- and Switzerland-based technology-enabled service provider that prepares and structures financial and ESG data for commercial lenders. The acquisition expands Acuity's automation, AI/ML and data-processing capabilities and adds direct presence in Germany and Switzerland; PPA has around 150 experts and processes over 300,000 documents annually.

EQT to Acquire Majority Stake in Universidad Europea from Permira

April 8, 2024

Education

EQT Infrastructure VI has agreed to acquire a majority position in Universidad Europea from Permira, which will retain a significant minority stake. EQT plans to invest in the university's campuses and digital capabilities to expand its online and hybrid learning proposition and support geographic expansion; the company operates 12 campuses across Spain and Portugal with 3,400 employees and 54,000 students.

Permira Acquires Majority Stake in Reorg from Warburg Pincus

August 1, 2022

Data & Analytics

Funds advised by Permira agreed to acquire the majority shareholding in Reorg from Warburg Pincus, with Reorg management retaining a significant ownership stake. The investment will support product innovation and accelerated growth for Reorg, a provider of data, analytics and intelligence for the global credit markets; financial terms were not disclosed and the deal was expected to close in Q3 2022.

K1 Invests $47M Minority Stake in HR Acuity

October 19, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

K1 Investment Management made a $47 million minority growth investment in HR Acuity to help the HR case management and predictive insights SaaS provider scale its product and go-to-market capabilities. The funding will support talent hires and product innovation as HR Acuity expands its cloud solutions for enterprise employee relations teams.