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Kinderhook Industries wins PE Hub's Mid-Cap North America Deal of the Year, plus HVAC service providers on the block

Continuing with PE Hub’s Deal of the Year Awards for 2025 by featuring Kinderhook Industries, the winner of Mid-Cap North America Deal of the Year; HIG Capital conducting a bake-off for a 2022 portfolio company; a look at two HVAC service providers and one manufacturer of refrigerants used by the HVAC market currently for sale, or soon to be in the market.

Searchlight leverages rise in RWI in Euclid sale; Monomoy buys Jiffy Lube from Shell

Exploring Searchlight Capital Partners’ recent exit of Euclid Transactional, a provider of representations and warranties insurance (RWI), to CRC Group; a look at PE’s growing interest in automotive care businesses; some nuggets from KPMG’s recently released 2026 M&A Deal Market study.

Private equity’s rising use of RWI-fueled Searchlight’s Euclid exit

Searchlight bucked a tough exit market and returned over $4bn to investors, thanks to recent portfolio company sales.

OceanSound hires TPG’s Laura Noisten to lead capital markets

Noisten is joining the firm at an important time to ‘help us build appropriate infrastructure before OceanSound reaches another major milestone in size and complexity,’ CEO Joe Benavides told Buyouts.

Bregal Sagemount founder says 'conservative' fund size increases behind recent success

Gene Yoon tells Buyouts that the firm assesses deployment rates and aims to avoid risk-return dilution when setting its fund size targets – though Fund V represents a 32% increase over its predecessor.

Brookfield’s David Nowak: Operational improvements at portcos key; CCMP Capital seeks to sell a commercial facilities service provider

David Nowak, president of Brookfield Asset Management’s private equity group, believes operating improvements within portfolio companies will be the defining factor in private equity winners and losers; CCMP Capital Advisors is in the early stages of reviewing a sale of its 2019 portfolio company BGIS.

HGGC leverages strong distributions for oversubscribed Fund V

“We have sent significant capital back to our investors over the last two to three years, and as you can imagine, it was very well-received given the liquidity-starved environment many LPs have highlighted,” said Neil White, the firm’s president and managing partner.

Thoma Bravo’s Holden Spaht, Anastasia Titarchuk of New York State’s Common Retirement Fund, 26North’s Josh Harris speak at PEI Group’s Nexus summit

PEI Group’s NEXUS 2026 summit kicked off yesterday with a strong lineup of speakers and attendees.

Retired vice admiral William Hilarides finds calling as PE backs defense industry

'I want to make a substantive difference in shipbuilding and the rest of the defense industrial base by helping companies grow and produce at the rate that the Navy needs,' said Ventus Industrial's Hilarides.

Lower mid-market investor Garden City nabs $255m for ‘people-first’ strategy

‘The first thing people want more than anything else is dignity and respect, a place of purpose and belonging,’ Garden City founder Michael Arrieta told Buyouts.