M&A Deal Summary

The Carlyle Group Acquires Adastra

On July 22, 2025, private equity firm The Carlyle Group acquired information technology company Adastra

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 39th transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 26th transaction in Germany.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2025-07-22
Target Adastra
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) The Carlyle Group
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)
Advisor(s) J.P. Morgan Securities (Financial)

Target

Adastra

Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Adastra is an international consulting company that transforms the Data & Analytics space by providing smart Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud, Digital, and Governance services and solutions. Adastra is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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Buyer

The Carlyle Group

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1987
PE ASSETS 435.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION
Carlyle's corporate headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC.
Carlyle's corporate headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC.

The Carlyle Group is a global investment firm that pursues private equity, credit, and real estate investments worldwide. Carlyle's private equity practice practice pursues buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, and growth capital financings. With offices in 19 countries, Carlyle can easily target opportunities throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East/North Africa and Latin America. Broad sectors of interest include aerospace, defense, automotive and transportation, consumer, retail, energy and power, financial services, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, technology services, business services, telecommunications and media. The Carlyle Group was formed in 1987 and is based in Washington DC.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 747 of 749
Sector: Information Technology M&A 39 of 39
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 221 of 221
Country: Germany M&A 26 of 26
Year: 2025 M&A 2 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2025-07-21 Calastone

London, United Kingdom

Calastone is a global funds network, that connects the world’s major financial organizations. Calastone's mission is to help the asset management industry transform by creating innovative new ways to automate and digitalize the global investment funds marketplace, reducing frictional costs, and lowering the operational risk to the benefit of all. Calastone was formed in 2007 and is based in London, England.

Sell £766M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2025-07-28 NEOGOV

El Segundo, California, United States

NEOGOV is a talent management software platform focused on government, education and public sector clients. NEOGOV provides market major software-as-a-service (SaaS) talent management solutions to automate and streamline the recruitment, onboarding and performance evaluation processes for government and other public sector institutions. NEOGOV was founded in 2000 and is based in El Segundo, California.

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