Largest Private Equity Deals in 2025

What Is Private Equity? Private equity refers to direct, long-term investments in private companies (not publicly traded) to increase their value and later realize profits through the sale of ownership stakes or other exit strategies. Investment occurs directly into a company’s equity capital. Investors often take an active role in company management to enhance its value.

Best Company Deals

The largest private equity deals in the world in 2025 include:

• Meta’s investments in AI infrastructure (building a large data center)
• The acquisition of Norfolk Southern by Union Pacific
• Merger of Anglo American with Teck
• acquisition of CyberArk by Palo Networks
• financing of technology startups such as Saronic Technologies

Recently, most major private equity deals have not been publicly disclosed due to confidentiality. However, key trends in the private capital market include:

• high activity in private equity transactions
• greater flexibility in asset valuation
• growing interest from corporate investors in acquiring assets held by private equity funds

Growth of the European Investment Market in 2025

American and Western European investors continue to play a leading role, accounting for about 50% of total investments. The most promising areas for private equity investments in 2025 are innovation and technology. Other sectors with growth potential include healthcare and biotechnology, next-generation agribusiness, and logistics.

Real estate, both commercial and residential, remains a relevant direction—especially energy-efficient projects alongside traditional assets.

The EU private equity market demonstrates resilience, even as companies face the need to explore new exit opportunities and strategically allocate capital.

The largest private equity deals in Europe in 2025 include:

• Verisure (security systems, valued at €20–30 billion)
• Northern Data (HPC, cloud, and AI solutions, valued at €10–16 billion)
• There is also increasing demand for startups, particularly in the technology sector.

CVC Capital Partners remains one of the largest companies actively pursuing its private equity strategy. Its 2025 highlights include raising €10.4 billion for a new credit fund and a potential acquisition of a controlling stake in India’s Avendus Capital.

Permira Partners is another well-known European firm managing significant private equity funds.

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