It might be hard to believe, but it's been a full six months since news broke that Dainese got sold by its most recent owner, private equity megalith the Carlyle Group, to the two asset management firms that had put up the capital to allow Carlyle to purchase the Dainese Group in the first place.
At the time, major headlines blared that it had just been sold for the measly sum of one Euro, or one dollar, or something else seemingly ludicrous. As I pointed out at that time, that's because it was being sold back to the creditors that financed the purchase in the first place, so in reality, they'd already spent quite a bit more than $1 on the back end. But that doesn't make a convenient or catchy headline, so there you are with a story that requires reading rather than a pithy headline that can simply be scrolled past at will.
But as I'm sure you're aware by now, deals like this take time both for the companies themselves to close, as well as any and all necessary regulatory approval hurdles to be cleared (or not, depending). Thus it came to pass that on January 29, 2026, the European Commission finally published its official position of non-opposition to the acquisition of Dainese S.p.A. by Arcmont Asset Management and HPS Investment Partners. Meaning, it's a done deal as far as the regulators are concerned, as this is really the one thing the deal was waiting on.
