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CPA firms Crowe and Eide Bailly test the PE investor market on the block

Seven of the top 20 US CPA firms are currently backed by PE investors, including Apax, Audax, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, New Mountain and TowerBrook Capital.

Christen Paras, MiddleGround Capital: Women in Private Equity 2026

MiddleGround’s 'entrepreneurial' vibe allowed Christen Paras to embrace increasing responsibility, and eventually lead six teams. Passionate about female empowerment, she's a sponsor of the firm's Women’s Wing, which backs charities for abused and homeless women and children.

Clearlake buys Qualus from New Mountain amid soaring power demand; KKR’s exit provides CoolIT employees with handsome payout

Highlighting a transaction for a power infrastructure service provider that New Mountain Capital is selling to Clearlake Capital; KKR announces that CoolT Technologies employees are gaining significantly from the $4.75 billion sale of the company to Ecolab; a weekly companies for sale update.

Exclusive: Turnspire shops USG Water Solutions to broad PE universe, sources say

The mid-market PE firm will take first-round bids for the municipal water service provider in mid-April, sources told PE Hub.

Audax, Keystone said to seek HVAC exits; Pophouse snags Tina Turner catalog; hold periods for portcos are longer than ever

HIG to test market for industrial services company JT Thorpe, sources say

Thorpe’s business is largely tied to industrial system outages and with a scaled platform, which should be appealing to a large-cap PE firm buyer universe.

More HVAC service providers and component makers are on the block

Scaled residential HVAC platforms have seen PE deal valuations of 16x-19x EBITDA, while the commercial HVAC market has seen a wider spread from about 10x-17x EBITDA.

Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman win PE Hub's Overall Deal of the Year Award for Medline's $7.2bn IPO

'When we came into the deal, we allowed Medline to tap for the first time into the US debt markets, including the leveraged loan and high-yield market,' Robert Schmidt, partner, Carlyle, told PE Hub.

Inside Arlington’s exit of Forged Solutions Group to JF Lehman & Co.; M&A disputes rising, finds BRG report

A weekly update on companies for sale, including two recent deal announcements; highlights from a conversation with Arlington Capital managing director Peter Manos about the firm’s latest sale of an aerospace parts company; a look at a survey BRG conducted about M&A disputes.

ArcLight acquires 50% stake in 5.4 GW InfraBridge gas power portfolio

The assets include 11 natural gas-fired combined cycle power plants in Washington, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Ontario.