CVC Capital Partners
British private equity and investment advisory firm
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| March 2025 | CVC Capital Partners won a total of five awards across Private Equity International, Private Equity Investors, Secondary Investors, and Infrastructure Investors categories during the annual awards season. |
| 2024 | CVC returned to fourth place in the PEI 300 rankings, reaffirming its position among the top private equity firms worldwide. |
| November 23 2024 | Sky News reported potential takeover bid for ITV plc by CVC Capital Partners and other media companies. |
| July 3 2024 | CVC gained a 60% share of DIF Capital Partners, with plans to acquire additional 20% stakes in subsequent years. |
| June 2024 | CVC Capital Partners ranked fourth in Private Equity International's PEI 300 ranking of the world's largest private equity firms. |
| April 26 2024 | CVC listed its shares on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange, opening at €17.34 with a total offering size of €2.3 billion. |
| February 2024 | Co-founder Donald Mackenzie stepped back from the firm. |
| February 2024 | CVC raised $6.8 billion for its sixth Asia fund, 50% larger than the previous fund raised in 2020. |
| 2023 | CVC fell to 15th place in the PEI 300 ranking. In the same year, the firm raised the largest ever global private equity fund, totaling €26 billion. |
| 2023 | CVC postponed its planned IPO on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange. |
| December 2023 | CVC acquired Sogo Medical, a Japanese pharmacy operator, for $1.2 billion. |
| 2022 | Co-founder Steve Koltes stepped down from the firm. |
| July 2022 | CVC sold a near-50 percent stake in TMF Group to the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Co-founder Steve Koltes stepped down from the firm. |
| July 2022 | CVC sold a near-50 percent stake in TMF Group to the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. |
| June 2022 | CVC was ranked fourth in the Private Equity International (PEI) 300 ranking of the largest private equity firms globally. |
| November 2021 | CVC acquired Unilever's tea division, Lipton Teas and Infusions, for £4.5 billion, including 34 tea brands, tea estates in three countries, and 11 factories. |
| October 25 2021 | CVC Capital Partners, through Irelia Company Pte Ltd, purchased the Gujarat Titans, an Ahmedabad-based Indian Premier League cricket franchise. |
| December 2019 | CVC Capital Partners purchased Ontic from BBA Aviation for $1.365 billion. |
| May 2018 | CVC Capital Partners paid $160 million to acquire OANDA Global Corporation, a global online retail foreign exchange trading platform headquartered in Toronto, Canada. |
| October 2017 | CVC Capital Partners acquired Dutch global provider of compliance and administrative services firm TMF Group for €1.75 billion. |
| September 2016 | CVC Capital Partners agreed to sell control of the Formula One Group to John Malone's Liberty Media in a $4.4 billion deal, which would be completed in two parts. |
| August 2016 | CVC Capital Partners agreed to buy a 15% stake in PT Siloam International Hospitals Tbk, a major private hospital chain in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. |
| April 2016 | CVC Capital Partners acquired German betting operator Tipico. |
| November 2015 | CVC and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board jointly acquired American pet supplier Petco for approximately $4.6 billion. |
| September 2015 | CVC opened a new office in Warsaw. |
| June 2015 | CVC acquired the German perfume retailer Douglas AG from private equity firm Advent International. |
| March 2015 | CVC bought 80% of shares of gambling company Sky Betting & Gaming. |
| February 2015 | CVC made its first investment from CVC Growth Partners by acquiring Wireless Logic, Europe's largest machine-to-machine managed service provider, from ECI Partners. |
| January 2015 | CVC Capital Partners and Bencis Capital Partners were sentenced to pay fines by the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets due to competition rule violations related to their former portfolio company Meneba Beheer. |
| January 2013 | Smith retired from the role of chairman, and Koltes, Mackenzie and Van Rappard were appointed as co-chairmen of the group. |
| 2012 | CVC reduced its shares in the Formula One Group to 35.5%, which led to criticism from Force India's deputy team principal Bob Fernley who accused CVC of 'raping the sport'. |
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