Commentary

A mid-year outlook into PE investments in the wealth management sector from Houlihan Lokey’s James Anderson; highlighting notable wealth management deals this year, including from Carlyle and JC Flowers.

'Helio has built an impressive position as the go-to provider of political intelligence and monitoring services across Europe,' said Toby Fitzherbert, investment director at ECI.

Exploring private equity interest in the pain management sector; a look at the completed merger of two medtech manufacturers into an orthopedics-focused platform and backed by Charlesbank Capital Partners and Nordic Capital.

'We felt like there was white space in the corporate private equity market for a yield-focused strategy – it doesn’t really exist in a major way,' said Miller.

Three companies in the industrial sector that are currently in the market – and one that’s taking a pause in the sale process – according to sources; Trinity Hunt Partners has formed Elevation Landscape Group; Sunaina Sinha Haldea, global head, private capital advisory, Raymond James, to give keynote interview at PEI Group’s Women in Private Markets Summit: North America.

GHO and CBC co-founders Mike Mortimer and Fu Wei will serve as co-CEOs of the combined company.

Exploring how extended hold periods are affecting private equity investments in conversations with PE advisers and consultants from McKinsey, KPMG and Lathrop GPM; Blackstone is investing $5 billion in a joint venture with Google to create a compute-as-a-service offering.

'The combination of zero churn, a rapidly growing enterprise pipeline and a market that is still at the very beginning of cloud adoption underpins our conviction in the opportunity ahead,' says Verdane's Dominik Schwarz.