Rafael Canton

Exclusive: 'The war for talent' leads HGGC to buy Equity Methods

Equity Methods provides executive compensation and stock-based compensation reporting, valuation, and advisory services.

Turn/River eyes add-on deals for SolarWinds after $4.4bn take-private acquisition

SolarWinds is among a slew of enterprise software companies that private equity firms have taken private in 2025.

SolarWinds, Zuora and Smartsheet just went private with PE backers. Are more take-private software deals to come?

A deep dive on take-private software deals featuring interviews with Vista Equity Partners, Thoma Bravo and Goldman Sachs; Waste Control Specialists put into the market by its private equity owner JF Lehman & Company; Boeing’s pruning process may be Thoma Bravo’s gain; recent news regarding exit figures.

Enterprise software take-private deals benefit from stock market volatility, duration mismatch

Smartsheet, SolarWinds and Zuora have all gone private in 2025 with PE backers including Blackstone, GIC, Silver Lake, Turn/River Capital and Vista.

Monogram leverages popularity of youth sports in Vasco deal; Butterfly runs single-asset CV for QDOBA, sources say

Vasco is an asphalt, paving, repair and maintenance business that specializes in surfaces for sports.

Exclusive: Monogram eyes growing youth sports market in acquisition of Vasco

Monogram expects to do one large, transformative add-on deal plus two or more smaller ones each year, said co-founder Jared Stein.

Optimism for take-private deals after Sycamore’s move for Walgreens Boots Alliance; Steady stream of food-service deals continue in 2025

Michael Blankenship, co-chair of Winston & Strawn’s capital markets practice and Houston managing partner, on take-private deals in private equity this year; the subsector of food-service and why it’s attractive to PE firms; Bain Capital's deal for HealthEdge, a Burlington, Massachusetts-based healthcare tech company.

Dealmakers more cautious than a week ago; why Goldman Sachs, Shore Capital back autism care

Lead Edge Capital explains how tariffs and the stock market turmoil are affecting dealmaking.

Joelle Marquis from Arsenal Capital Partners and Katie Ossman Water Street Healthcare Partners honored by PE Hub and Buyouts

Highlighting Joelle Marquis from Arsenal Capital Partners and Katie Ossman from Water Street Healthcare Partners as part of our Women in PE: Class of 2025 coverage; a dive into how valuations of pro sports teams keep rising, and how that’s opened the door for private equity firms to invest.

Pro team prices are soaring, and PE firms are eager to get in on the game

In March, an investor group led by STG co-founder Bill Chisholm acquired the Boston Celtics for $6.1bn, the most anyone has ever paid for a sports team.