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Robust deal pipeline as Q4 approaches; Vector Capital taps Kiran Rao as head of value creation

Upcoming companies-for-sale activity, including insights from Justin Abelow, a managing director in Houlihan Lokey’s financial sponsors group, and Effram Kaplan, co-CEO of investment bank Brown Gibbons Lang; Vector Capital Management taps Kiran Rao as managing director and head of value creation; Sheridan Capital Partners completes an investment in PtEverywhere.

5 min read · 17 September 2026

Financial Services

Main Capital’s Sjoerd Aarts shares plans as firm ups UK presence; Clearlake grows Chelsea FC stake; CVC DIF, Carlyle and EQT in security deals

EQT’s Mid Market Europe fund has signed a definitive agreement to sell Ontinue, an AI-powered managed cybersecurity services provider focused on Microsoft architecture, to Quorum Cyber.

5 min read · 17 September 2026

Investors bullish on Major League Baseball despite potential lockout; Niobrara acquires managed IT services provider MSP Corp

Also featured is a look at HR software deals from private equity firms Thoma Bravo, Gryphon and Main Capital.

4 min read · 16 September 2026

Providence Equity outlines the shared strategies in entertainment and B2B events investing; Brookfield to take plumbing product biz Reliance private

Eurazeo has completed a majority investment in Netco Group, a European provider of critical maintenance services for conveyor systems used in vital industries.

5 min read · 16 September 2026

KKR, Neuberger to take minority stake in Datavant; Carlyle joins MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium as PE firms double down on AI

Neuberger and KKR agree to acquire a significant minority stake in health information tech company Datavant from New Mountain Capital; RedCloud Capital invests in APS Environmental Group; Carlyle joins the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium to explore how AI can support investment decision-making and portfolio management.

4 min read · 15 September 2026

Financial Services

GPs optimistic on dealmaking outlook but targets set to attract several suitors; KPS agrees to sale of aluminum business Metra

Ambienta has made its first international add-on for Spaggiari, a developer of software and services products for schools that it acquired in 2023.

4 min read · 15 September 2026

Bain Capital’s Max de Groen expects deal activity to pick up over next year; Genstar and Aksia make growth investment in Richey May

Max de Groen, partner and co-head of Technology, North America Private Equity at Bain Capital, on how his firm is navigating disruption from AI in software; Genstar Capital and Aksia make a growth investment in Richey May; New Mountain Capital agrees to make a significant minority investment in Appleby Global Group.

6 min read · 14 September 2026

Business services

Alpine backs ‘large and growing’ UK hard facilities management market with Eight Group launch; Take-private deals in focus

4 min read · 14 September 2026

Healthcare

Ardian, Sagemount, Eir, Thoma Bravo back life sciences software; 1315 Capital eyes value creation potential in Argonaut’s diagnostics division

AI and regulatory complexity are driving demand for life sciences software, which in turn has attracted private equity; 1315 Capital closes a carve-out deal with a portfolio company of Telegraph Hill Partners and New Vale Capital.

5 min read · 11 September 2026

HOF Capital, Main Capital bet on automotive; Hudson Hill’s Eric Rosen featured in They Said It

Main Capital Partners announced this week that it has agreed to acquire a majority stake in VWE Automotive, a provider of software, data and transaction services for the automotive sector.

3 min read · 11 September 2026

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