CVC Capital Partners has agreed to sell advisory firm AlixPartners to an investor group made up of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Public Sector Pension Investment Board and Investcorp for more than $2.5 billion. CVC will exit an investment from 2012 with the sale of the New York-based company, which has offices on four continents and provides a variety of operational advisory services to businesses, law firms, banks and other clients.
The AlixPartners sale will be the second-largest private equity deal in the US for a company in the consulting sector since the start of 2010, according to the PitchBook Platform, trailing only the Advent International and GS Capital Partners acquisition of TransUnion in 2012 for more than $3 billion.
Here are the eight busiest firms in the US consulting services sector since the start of 2010, including add-ons:
1. Madison Dearborn Partners (14)
2. The Carlyle Group (13)
T-3. The Riverside Company (9)
T-3. Tailwind Capital (9)
T-5. Stone Point Capital (8)
T-5. Gryphon Investors (8)
T-5. Century Capital Partners (8)
T-5. Apax Partners (8)
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