Dealmaking

Rising valuations and rapid movement among professional sports team deals in 2026

Apollo, Arctos and Blue Owl are a few of the firms making deals for pro sports teams in 2026.

Side Letter: Leveraging for liquidity

In today's edition, A $62bn pension is seeking leverage for liquidity; A sovereign wealth fund's PE allocation falls to a nine-year low – with a catch; Chinese PE activity rebounds.

Apis Partners’ Matteo Stefanel: Evaluating payments company deals in the age of agentic shopping; Accel-KKR's Basware to buy payment fraud prevention biz

Accel-KKR-backed Basware has signed a binding agreement to acquire Trustpair in a deal pairing Basware's invoice lifecycle management platform with Trustpair's payment fraud prevention technology.

Agentic shopping could raise the bar for payments investments, says Apis Partners

‘The financial institutions will need to be able to participate in that lightspeed discussion between the various agents to facilitate the whole interaction,’ Matteo Stefanel, managing partner and co-founder, tells PE Hub.

KKR, GI Partners, O2 Investments target janitorial companies; Windjammer Capital to sell parking biz IPS

A look at facilities management, with a spotlight on janitorial services; exploring Windjammer Capital’s plans to sell IPS Group, a San Diego-headquartered provider of parking infrastructure, to Nayax.

Cleaning companies catch private equity's attention

The sector has drawn investments from PE firms of all sizes, a sign of the growing appeal of the cleaning business.

Warburg Pincus’ Peter Deming spies European banking opportunities as investment memos stack up; Foresight exits outsourced fleet management biz to Premius

Foresight Group has announced the exit of Plantexpand, selling the outsourced fleet maintenance business to Premius Capital.

Warburg Pincus’s Peter Deming has ‘fresh eyes’ on banking deals amid AI disruption

‘I think of banks as having incredibly rich data. AI is going to be an opportunity for them to move up the value chain as a service provider,’ says the co-lead of European financial and business services.

Blackstone- and H&F-backed Ode with Anthropic adds to Claude services with Casper buy; PSG, Thoma Bravo, Nexa Equity make deals in construction software

An update on how PE firms are deploying artificial intelligence across their portfolios; diving into PE investment in construction software.

Telecoms in demand amid UK take-private boom as Waterland joins Gamma pursuit

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