Dealmaking

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.

Agentic commerce, AI-driven fraud shake up financial services dealmaking

Earlier this week, Accel-KKR-backed Basware signed a binding agreement to acquire Trustpair, in a deal pairing Basware’s invoice lifecycle management platform with Trustpair’s payment fraud prevention technology.

The operating partner delusion

Private equity’s operating business needs fewer ornamental experts, fewer fashionable titles and more teeth, writes Lee McCabe of Claymore Partners.

JPMorgan’s David Sweet talks ‘battleship defensibility’ of fire safety platforms; KKR’s Industrial Physics scoops up electrical testing firm from Branford Castle

Talking with JPMorgan business services banker David Sweet to go over the fire protection and life safety market and the high valuations PE firms are paying for companies in the space; KKR-backed Industrial Physics acquires an electrical testing and measurement equipment company from Branford Castle Partners; a companies-for-sale update.

Healthcare private equity weathers the SaaSpocalypse – Bain report

Disclosed healthcare buyout value fell to $51bn in H1 2026 from around $60bn a year earlier, with pressures from AI disruption and the Iran war contributing to the slowdown.

Fire safety platform valuations forecast to hold heights: JPMorgan’s David Sweet

The total addressable market is $150bn for fire safety add-ons, split evenly between fire safety and alarm systems, according to JPMorgan.

AI adaptation, increased spending drive private equity to target tourism, leisure and travel

Altor, BGF, Nazca Capital and TDR Capital are among the firms transacting in tourism and travel.

Scarcity value drives Apollo, Joshua Kushner and José E. Feliciano to sports deals; Genstar to sell First Eagle to Victory Capital Holdings for $7bn

Also featured is Superstep Capital's investment in Google Cloud consultancy Zencore.