Dealmaking

Intera-backed Suvia Group expands to Belgium with AutoRepairGroup acquisition

The Heverlee-based body repair group runs 14 workshops across Belgium, employs more than 450 people and completes over 45,000 repairs a year, with 2026 revenue set to top €80m at a 10% EBITDA margin.

GI Partners bets on vehicle tracking; Revisiting Women in PE; What SBA proposals mean for PE investors

GI Partners closes majority investment in Otodata, a provider of remote monitoring and vehicle tracking technology; checking in with Buyouts’ Women in PE 2020; how new rules proposed by teh SBA could potentially impact private equity deal cycles.

Veritas takes lead on Bodycote pursuit; Epiris agrees to deal for London-listed Gamma Communications

Gamma Communications confirmed in August that Waterland Private Equity is among the firms in discussions to take the company private.

Investing in the age of bioconvergence

The burgeoning space that mixes biology, engineering, computer science and AI has already delivered some big exits.

Deep Dive: Just how big can secondaries get?

The rapid growth of the secondaries market has led to suggestions that it could see transaction volumes of $500bn – or even $1trn – by 2030. Just four years out from this deadline, are such predictions realistic?

Asia roundtable: The guardians of alpha

While a handful of pan-Asian mega-funds are soaking up the majority of LP interest, some argue that local mid-market champions are most likely to deliver outsized returns for investors in Asia-Pacific.

Granite Creek’s Peter Pacelli is a dealmaker to watch; PE-backed Authentic Brands builds on lifestyle IP pursuit with acquisition of OVO

A profile from PE Hub’s Dealmakers to Watch series: Peter Pacelli, who leads Granite Creek Capital’s agribusiness strategy; Authentic Brands Group, which is backed by CVC Capital Partners, General Atlantic and Leonard Green & Partners, announced last week that it acquired a majority stake in the intellectual property of October’s Very Own.

Granite Creek's Pete Pacelli on private equity, agribusiness and military service

'Agribusiness companies are underserved by institutional capital, especially in the lower middle market,' says Pete Pacelli.

Main, New Mountain, Marlin Equity target patient engagement tech; Specialty pharmacy, mental health needs drive Flexpoint’s sale of ArtesRx

New software, including agentic AI applications, are fueling provider adoption of patient engagement technology, and PE dealmakers see opportunities to scale these capabilities further; exploring Flexpoint Ford's sale of ArtesRx, a behavioral health pharmacy, to Linden Capital Partners.

PE backs patient engagement tech: 5 deals

Clearlake Capital, Marlin Equity Partners and New Mountain Capital are among the PE firms investing in patient engagement software.