Dealmaking

Aquiline, Capstreet, Oakley target healthcare insurance; Medline files IPO, backed by H&F, Carlyle, Blackstone

A five-deal listicle on private equity investments in the healthcare insurance sector; a look at an IPO filed this week by a healthcare distribution company backed by Hellman & Friedman, The Carlyle Group and Blackstone; a brief recap of the launch of a new healthcare growth-equity firm announced this week and involving MPowered Capital.

The new AI value equation for private equity

Companies that succeed are not those seeking to replace humans with machines, but those combining human intelligence with AI to create a multiplier effect, writes Tim Huber of Maine Pointe.

Healthcare insurance pulls in PE: 5 deals

Aquiline Capital Partners, Capstreet, Cypress Ridge and Oakley Capital are targeting investments in the healthcare insurance sector.

TSG sees significant increase in fitness M&A; Connected eyes add-ons for SPIT in Benelux and Germany; Cerberus picks up Swedish fintech biz

SPIT is a Dutch provider of services for static and rotating electrical machines.

From chore to choice: 6 PE-backed gym deals

KKR and TSG are among PE firms making investments in the gym sector.

Astorg, Cinven, Nordic and Novo exit Clario in $8.9bn transaction; Hg’s Louis Kinsella says bid for GTreasury was ‘too good to turn down’

Inside the exit story on Hg’s recently announced sale of a financial technology company to a strategic; a Q&A piece with LS Power Equity Advisors that provides an outlook on conventional and renewable energy deals in the next year; the weekly companies-for-sale update, highlighting two large-cap deals announced this week for clinical research data firm Clario, and a disaster management service company.

Number Crunch: MENA is an oasis in a fundraising desert

The Middle East and North Africa region has become increasingly attractive to managers as they attempt to tap its massive stock of sovereign wealth fund capital.

LS Power's Darpan Kapadia on the 'more of everything' energy transition approach

The New York-based developer and PE investor has acquired power generation assets from Calpine, Algonquin Power, TC Energy, BP and NRG Energy.

Hg’s Louis Kinsella: $1bn valuation for GTreasury ‘too good to turn down’

The London-based private equity firm doubled organic growth in GTreasury in the year before its exit.

Dealmaking in calm before the storm, says Raymond James; BC Partners-, Pollen Street-backed Shawbrook lists at £1.9bn valuation

Essex-based Shawbrook provides finance to customers across the SME, real estate and consumer sectors.