PE Hub Wire

Audax said to be close to launching sale process for Justrite; Chef Boyardee acquisition fits Brynwood's buy and build strategy

A scoop to share on Audax Private Equity, which is expected to launch a sale process for portfolio company Justrite Manufacturing in the coming weeks; taking stock of Brynwood Partners-backed Hometown Food Company, which acquired the Chef Boyardee brand for $600 million; insights from Hamilton Lane’s PE Hub attended 2025 Market Overview.

Insurance market ripe for consolidation; Gauge Capital to merge Urology America; reimbursement trends drive PE interest in autism therapy

A roundup of eight deals that sum up why firms like Ares, GTCR and Lightyear Capital are flocking toward the insurance sector; a merger agreement between a Gauge Capital portfolio company and a business recently sold by Apollo; delving into Bourne Partner’s Autism Therapy Market Update that points out a unique trend that may help increase PE involvement in the space.

Beginnings are hard, and Q1 was really hard for closing deals; Number of companies for sale is also down

Further evidence that dealmaking is on pause in the midst of market uncertainty has emerged, as PE Hub reveals in our Q1 2025 quarterly M&A report, based on data from S&P Global Market Intelligence; a weekly update on companies for sale, and there’s some good news.

PE firms find portco revenue bump through AI; KKR, ICG go after GlobalData; Eurazeo picks up more shares in French AM

Eurazeo has acquired the remaining shares in Kurma Partners, an asset management company specializing in biotechnology and medical innovation.

Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, New Mountain are snatching up music rights; Northrim's Crawford Gates is a dealmaker to watch

A dive into the consumer sector and the high volume of deals in music royalties and copyrights; a look into the career of Crawford Gates, a principal at Northrim Horizon, as part of PE Hub’s Dealmakers to Watch series; also: Right Lane Industries, a holding company that’s a spin-off of Right Lane Capital, and Hillenbrand have agreed to sell TerraSource; finally, insights from Ropes & Gray on how PE deal volume has dropped in Q1 of 2025.

TA Associates takes stake in Kline Hill; HGGC to acquire executive compensation tech biz; Kohlberg buys Resa Power from Investcorp

A look at an exclusive on TA Associates, which announced it has acquired a stake in a secondaries investor; an exclusive on a financial technology deal by mid-market investor HGGC; a deal involving an education technology provider for healthcare professionals, which is being acquired by a Leeds Equity Partners.

Apollo, Blackstone and CVC in action across data centers, logistics and cybersecurity; NCC Group mulls sale of software escrow unit

Blackstone has launched Proxity, a pan-European logistics operator and developer.

‘The future of IT work is hybrid,’ says Turn/River Capital’s Matthew Amico about SolarWinds take-private deal; Baird finds deal volume down but value up

A deep dive on Turn/River Capital’s $4.4 billion acquisition of SolarWinds; some of the key findings from Baird’s Global M&A Quarterly report.