Commentary

How American Securities built one of its best-performing portcos; MiddleGround Capital to exit Lindsay Precast

Talking with American Securities partner Kevin Penn who detailed how the firm scaled FBM before its sale last month; Gemspring Capital Management has acquired The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s polymer chemicals business; MiddleGround Capital is set to sell Lindsay Precast to TJC; a look at the strategic partnership between Hamilton Lane and The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America.

Renaissance-backed U-Power in PPE add-on; Davidson Kempner and Afendis portco Cerealto buys in US; More add-ons for AnaCap- and TA-backed MRH Trowe

The new AI value equation for private equity

Companies that succeed are not those seeking to replace humans with machines, but those combining human intelligence with AI to create a multiplier effect, writes Tim Huber of Maine Pointe.

TSG sees significant increase in fitness M&A; Connected eyes add-ons for SPIT in Benelux and Germany; Cerberus picks up Swedish fintech biz

SPIT is a Dutch provider of services for static and rotating electrical machines.

Astorg, Cinven, Nordic and Novo exit Clario in $8.9bn transaction; Hg’s Louis Kinsella says bid for GTreasury was ‘too good to turn down’

Inside the exit story on Hg’s recently announced sale of a financial technology company to a strategic; a Q&A piece with LS Power Equity Advisors that provides an outlook on conventional and renewable energy deals in the next year; the weekly companies-for-sale update, highlighting two large-cap deals announced this week for clinical research data firm Clario, and a disaster management service company.

Warburg Pincus among those readying power service providers for sale; Francisco Partners acquires Jamf in $2.2bn take-private deal

We also take a recent look at PE-backed beverage deals after Apollo and KKR's investment in Dr Pepper Keurig.