Dealmaking

Education ripe for PE investment: 7 more deals

Sovereign Capital, Atlantic Street Capital and Platinum Equity are among the firms investing in the education sector.

Most of KKR’s PE portfolio has ‘limited to no first-order impact’ from tariffs

The buyout giant, which recorded $116bn of dry powder as of the end of the first quarter, wants to 'invest more when the world is most uncertain', according to co-chief executive Scott Nuttall.

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.

Q1 2025: Deal activity dips as uncertainties rise

Some of the biggest deals that closed in Q1 were in the TMT sector: Silver Lake bought Endeavor for about $10bn; IBM bought HashiCorp for $8.1bn; Blackstone and Vista bought Smartsheet for $7.9bn.

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.

Venture debt: The rise of non-sponsored growth credit deals

In part 20 of his series on venture debt, Zack Ellison from Applied Real Intelligence examines the emerging appeal of lending to non-sponsored, bootstrapped companies.

Northrim Horizon's Crawford Gates: 'There's a nearly unlimited supply of attractive services themes'

Gates moved earlier this year from KKR to Northrim to focus on the lower mid-market.

A slow year ahead or a depressed one? It’s all down to tariff negotiations, says DC Advisory; KKR, CPP close Axel Springer split

KKR and CPP Investments have completed the split of multinational media company Axel Springer.

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.