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EQT’s Per Franzén: ‘Very, very high sense of urgency’ to operationalize AI across portcos; AI’s legacy code rewriting abilities may expand PE’s investable universe

'AI is the most important theme of our generation,' said Franzén.

5 min read · 21 May 2026

How Carlyle grew iC Consult before pending sale to Bridgepoint; Arctos approved as LP of Cleveland Browns; PE investments in youth sports under scrutiny

Also featured are insights on the consumer and retail sector from Verlinvest's Alex Rosenthal.

5 min read · 20 May 2026

Healthcare

Healthcare specialists GHO and CBC sign tie-up; Data room figures suggest financial services M&A growth; Eurazeo to acquire cybersecurity biz

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

4 min read · 20 May 2026

Financial Services

Value creation and post-deal due diligence more important with longer hold periods; Blackstone injects $5 billion into JV with Google

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.

4 min read · 19 May 2026

Healthcare

Verdane invests in healthcare tech company Eterno; Private equity ups use of AI as value creation tool, Alvarez & Marsal finds

'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.

4 min read · 19 May 2026

Why private equity firms are snatching up music rights, including Tina Turner’s catalog; Sverica to sell agentic WinWire to NTT Data

Focusing on an area that’s getting a lot of private equity interest lately: Music rights. PE Hub reporter Iris Dorbian has written about the subject in depth. Earlier this morning, we published her story about how Pophouse acquired Tina Turner’s catalog and legacy.

5 min read · 18 May 2026

Healthcare

Triton to exit healthcare provider Aleris in strategic sale; McWin lists quick-service restaurant biz

Aleris provides specialist care to patients in more than 100 clinics in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

3 min read · 18 May 2026

Healthcare

Blackstone, Audax, Five Arrows eye pharmaceutical and life science consulting firms; Drug R&D complexity drives Eir Partners to invest in QuartzBio

Discussing the platform and M&A opportunities firms see in the pharmaceutical and life science sector; a look at Eir Partners’ investment in a life sciences data analytics company; insights from a conference hosted by Houlihan Lokey on what’s needed to leverage AI to help businesses thrive in the era of disintermediation.

5 min read · 15 May 2026

Business services

TICC’s embrace of AI helps to attract private equity, says Houlihan Lokey; They Said It in sports

'There has been always an imbalance between the passion for sports and what the business of sports is,' says Dynasty Equity's Don Cornwell.

4 min read · 15 May 2026

Houlihan Lokey’s JP Hanson flags $30bn of oil and gas assets coming to market; GenNx360 exits Precision Aviation to VSE for $2bn

Insight on the Iran War’s impact on upstream energy M&A deals, with talking points from Houlihan Lokey’s global head of oil and gas JP Hanson.; highlighting the top three PE-backed deals of 2026 in the oil and gas market; the weekly companies-for-sale update, which touches on GenNx360 Capital’s sale of an aviation MRO business to a strategic for above $2 billion deal value.

5 min read · 14 May 2026

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