Rafael Canton

Exclusive: New Water Capital acquires LidWorks, will pursue plastic packaging add-ons

Based in Plant City, Florida, LidWorks serves QSR brands including Burger King, 7 Eleven and Jamba Juice.

Yellow Wood agrees to acquire Holistic Health from Nestlé for $1bn; KSE’s acquisition of LA Angels adds to pro sports team deal flurry

Holistic Health’s portfolio of established brands includes Nature’s Bounty, Osteo Bi-Flex and Gard.

Granite Creek’s Peter Pacelli is a dealmaker to watch; PE-backed Authentic Brands builds on lifestyle IP pursuit with acquisition of OVO

A profile from PE Hub’s Dealmakers to Watch series: Peter Pacelli, who leads Granite Creek Capital’s agribusiness strategy; Authentic Brands Group, which is backed by CVC Capital Partners, General Atlantic and Leonard Green & Partners, announced last week that it acquired a majority stake in the intellectual property of October’s Very Own.

Scarcity value drives Apollo, Joshua Kushner and José E. Feliciano to sports deals; Genstar to sell First Eagle to Victory Capital Holdings for $7bn

Also featured is Superstep Capital's investment in Google Cloud consultancy Zencore.

Rising valuations and rapid movement among professional sports team deals in 2026

Apollo, Arctos and Blue Owl are a few of the firms making deals for pro sports teams in 2026.

Blackstone- and H&F-backed Ode with Anthropic adds to Claude services with Casper buy; PSG, Thoma Bravo, Nexa Equity make deals in construction software

An update on how PE firms are deploying artificial intelligence across their portfolios; diving into PE investment in construction software.

Francisco Partners to acquire Weave for $650m; Bain, River Associates and Kainos lead PE’s return to household products

Exclusive: THL to acquire Queue-It from GRO Capital as 'agentic commerce' grows

The Queue-It deal is THL’s second investment out of THL Automation Fund II.

Francisco Partners’ DJ Deb outlines ‘complexity arbitrage’ strategy; Goldman Sachs, Sixth Street and FTV Capital make bets on fintech

Catching up with Dipanjan ‘DJ’ Deb, CEO of Francisco Partners, to learn more about tech investing during this period of AI-led disruption and what Francisco was hearing from its LPs; a look at recent deals in the fintech sector from Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Sixth Street and FTV Capital.

Francisco Partners' DJ Deb: 'Exits will come back, but it may take a little time'

'My guess is 2021-24 will end up being bad vintages in private equity, while 2025-28 will be great vintages,' FP's DJ Deb told PE Hub in a wide-ranging interview about how the firm will deploy its recently closed $21bn in capital commitments.