Commentary

Thoma Bravo eyes cross-sell opportunities with HCSS and Nemetschek combo; Brand Velocity’s acquisition of RCX Sports highlights PE’s interest in youth sports

With Thoma Bravo agreeing in April to combine HCSS with Nemetschek’s build and construct segment, we’ll look at how the combined entity can help HCSS going forward; also: exploring private equity’s interest in youth sports.

AI's impact on deal sourcing, value creation, exits and returns explored at PEI Group’s Women in Private Markets Summit; Wynnchurch exits Labrie to Finnish strategic for $1.4bn

AI was everything everywhere all at once this week at PEI Group’s fourth annual Women in Private Markets Summit: North America; weekly update on companies for sale, featuring Wynnchurch’s exit of a garbage truck company.

Five-plus-five asset cycle critical in age of AI, says KPMG’s Tilman Ost; ‘Heightened scrutiny’ on tech-adjacent deals coming to Europe, says A&O Shearman

'People are still positive on software, but it must be very niche, mission-critical, depending on precisely which applications are you going for,' says Tilman Ost, global private equity advisory leader at KPMG.

Peak Rock’s Alex Dabbous outlines add-on plans for food ingredients biz JR Dalziel; Triton to buy power transmission company Flender from Carlyle

Triton Partners is making another play in the industrial power transmission market after agreeing to acquire Flender from Carlyle.

Carlyle’s Ian Fujiyama details mid-market ADG strategy; JMI Equity’s Chase Thomet talks SewerAI investment

Drilling down on why Carlyle is creating a mid-market focused strategy, with insights from Ian Fujiyama, a managing director and the head of ADG services at the firm; Chase Thomet, a partner at JMI Equity, details the firm’s thesis around its acquisition of SewerAI.