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'You’re dealing with what is invariably the largest cost center for any company, which is its employee base, and making sure that that is productive and retained,' says James Stevens, managing director at Bain Capital.

A robust group of active buyers and sellers eyeing established companies and assets are expected to buoy the industrial deal market.

In November, Inflexion said it is acquiring a majority stake in Finanzen from Axel Springer.

'Whenever there has been a recessionary fear, that’s when I get a call from 30 to 40 private equity firms that have not invested in this space before,' says Jacob Voorhees, managing director of education-focused investment bank Navagant.

Blackstone senior managing director, Juergen Pinker, called power grid supply chain a 'key focus area' for the firm’s PE energy transition strategy.

Cardinal Health agreed to acquire ADSG from Court Square Capital for approximately $1.1bn.

Some government policies have made local investments in sectors such as infrastructure and manufacturing attractive.

MSCP is buying Prescott’s from Atlantic Street Capital, PE Hub can reveal.

Nordic Capital and OTPP agreed to take a co-control ownership of Max, a financial adviser for pensions, insurance and investments, in late-November.

Hellman & Friedman, Valeas Capital Partners, New Mountain Capital and Lovell Minnick Partners are some of the firms investing in this sector.