Dealmaking

Inside Blue Owl’s liquidity and monetisation playbook

Documents prepared for an LP investment committee meeting reveal details of the GP stakes giant's approach to generating liquidity.

Behind the music: How Pophouse acquired Tina Turner’s catalog and legacy

The Swedish firm’s recent acquisition of Tina Turner’s catalog and NIL rights aims to introduce the late superstar to new generations through IP development, live experiences and streaming.

Triton to exit healthcare provider Aleris in strategic sale; McWin lists quick-service restaurant biz

Aleris provides specialist care to patients in more than 100 clinics in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

Blackstone, Audax, Five Arrows eye pharmaceutical and life science consulting firms; Drug R&D complexity drives Eir Partners to invest in QuartzBio

Discussing the platform and M&A opportunities firms see in the pharmaceutical and life science sector; a look at Eir Partners’ investment in a life sciences data analytics company; insights from a conference hosted by Houlihan Lokey on what’s needed to leverage AI to help businesses thrive in the era of disintermediation.

PE seeks pharmaceutical and life sciences consulting firms: 7 deals

Blackstone, Audax, Bridgepoint and Baird are among the PE firms targeting add-ons for pharmaceutical and life science consultancy platforms.

TICC’s embrace of AI helps to attract private equity, says Houlihan Lokey; They Said It in sports

'There has been always an imbalance between the passion for sports and what the business of sports is,' says Dynasty Equity's Don Cornwell.

Revenue predictability pulls PE to testing and inspection: 5 deals

Ardian, Blackstone, Bridgepoint and EQT and are among the firms tapping into the TICC industry.

Houlihan Lokey’s JP Hanson flags $30bn of oil and gas assets coming to market; GenNx360 exits Precision Aviation to VSE for $2bn

Insight on the Iran War’s impact on upstream energy M&A deals, with talking points from Houlihan Lokey’s global head of oil and gas JP Hanson.; highlighting the top three PE-backed deals of 2026 in the oil and gas market; the weekly companies-for-sale update, which touches on GenNx360 Capital’s sale of an aviation MRO business to a strategic for above $2 billion deal value.

Apis’ Udayan Goyal: Paymentology investment taps into financial services disruption trend; Verdane completes Augmentum Fintech take-private

UK private healthcare provider Spire Healthcare has received a non-binding proposal from Toscafund Asset Management, the company announced this morning.

Britain's defence sector needs smarter capital policy, not more red tape

The UK has a strategic opportunity to become a global hub for defence investment, but it risks squandering that opportunity through regulatory frameworks that repel the very capital it needs to compete, writes Anthony Catachanas, founding partner and group chief executive of Tower Peak Partners.