Rafael Canton

TSG Consumer has made four investments this year, despite tariff turmoil

The PE firm has invested in Crumbl, Dude Wipes, EoS Fitness and Phlur, while much of the consumer sector is in wait-and-see mode.

Peak Rock doubled Shipley Do-Nuts revenue before exit to LLCP; Apollo, Carlyle and TPG report strong Q2 

Catching up with Robert Strauss and Michael Graham, senior managing director and managing director, respectively, at Peak Rock Capital, to learn more about their sale of Shipley Do-Nuts to Levine Leichtman Capital Partners; key points from second quarter results of The Carlyle Group, Apollo Global Management and TPG; a look at managed service providers.

Peak Rock’s exit of Shipley Do-Nuts driven by ‘proven resiliency’ of business

Shipley more than doubled its revenue and also roughly doubled its systemwide sales during Peak Rock's hold.

GHK bets on HVAC with RBS deal; Is ECP and KKR’s new hyperscale data center campus and power plant tie-up a sign of things to come?

GHK Capital Partners has acquired Rogers Building Solutions, a Douglasville, Georgia-based provider of specialty mechanical HVAC and plumbing services; Energy Capital Partners and KKR’s joint venture to develop a new 190 MW hyperscale data center campus; Amberjack Capital Partners has sold Entegra to NDT Global, a company backed by Novacap and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec.

Cybersecurity sees uptick in quality deals, says Houlihan’s Keith Skirbe; HarbourView leads way in music royalty and copyright deals

Speaking with Keith Skirbe, a managing director in Houlihan Lokey’s Technology Group, to learn the latest in the cybersecurity segment; a look at some recent deals in the music royalties and copyrights sector, and how HarbourView Equity Partners has fared in the current fundraising environment; One Equity Partners, Warburg Pincus and Green Cement Investments agree to sell Eco Material Technologies to CRH for $2.1 billion.

Houlihan Lokey’s Keith Skirbe: Expect a rise in M&A deal activity in cybersecurity

'Q2 was still a little slow, but we have seen things pick up over the last month or so across the US and Europe.'

Clearlake’s Prashant Mehrotra: Tale of two cities, as AI emboldens big bets from strategics while PE firms take a more measured approach

'If you unpack what's happened in PE, you've seen very episodic transactions, sometimes sponsor-to-sponsor, sometimes take-privates. But they're all largely focused on premier assets.'

Permira bets on ‘hungry’ biopharma patient services market with Valeris; Watchtower eyes founder-owned add-ons with new fencing platform

Catching up with Jon Maschmeyer, partner at Permira, to learn more about the growth strategy for Valeris, which formed from the Permira portfolio company PharmaCord and Odyssey Investment Partners-backed Mercalis; Watchtower Capital Partners launched a new fencing service provider platform, which merges Fence Builders of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Green Hill Fencing of Greenville, South Carolina; a look at PE’s interest in digital marketing.

Exclusive: FFL merges Abacus and Medicus IT, as multi-vertical MSPs gain traction

'MSPs get to benefit from every important IT trend that comes along, whether that's cybersecurity or data and AI,' said FFL's Jonathon Bunt.

Blackstone Gives Back Challenge hones pitching skills and yields donations to nonprofits

'It develops a skill set. There is a personal development aspect of this, in addition to it being for a good cause,' Blackstone's Jonathan Gray told PE Hub in an exclusive interview.