PE Hub Staff

Peerage Realty Partners has acquired an interest in Pacific Sotheby´s International Realty of Southern California, a real estate brokerage.

Ardent Leisure Group and RedBird Capital Partners have agreed to sell Main Event Entertainment, a Dallas-based family entertainment brand.

Blackstone Real Estate has acquired 1100 Atwater in Westmount and the Air Canada Tower in downtown Montreal for more than C$230 million.

Xplornet Communications, a portfolio company of Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, has acquired the high-speed internet business of Winnipeg-based Full Throttle Networks.

Penfund, a Canadian provider of junior capital to North American mid-market companies, has promoted four investment professionals, effective as of April 1st.

Penfund has closed an additional second lien debt investment in Arrowhead Engineered Products, a Blaine, Minnesota-based supplier of aftermarket replacement parts.

Alberta Investment Management Corp has agreed to convert C$100 million of debt into equity in a debt restructuring deal with Western Energy Services Corp, a Calgary-based oilfield service company.

Berlin Packaging has acquired United Bottles & Packaging, a Laval, Quebec-based distributor of glass bottles and closures for the food and beverage end markets.

Canada’s private equity market returned to pre-pandemic levels of activity in 2021, with a total of C$18 billion invested across 799 deals.

Clarke Soares discusses the process of starting her firm (during a pandemic, no less), what it's like for a Black woman to be in the rarefied world of private equity and how important it is for women to take the entrepreneurial path.