Financial services

The transaction is expected to close by the end of the second quarter of 2026.

Prior to joining Star Mountain, Zahringer was co-founder and principal of AZ Private Ventures.

‘The end game for us is to become a multi-specialist, rather than a pure generalist,’ Druais told PE Hub.

Existing investor Summit Partners will retain a minority stake.

Burton will be based in New York and report directly to co-CEOs Drew McKnight and Jack Neumark.

Announcing the winners of PE Hub’s Deal of the Year Awards for 2025, in which Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman took home the top honor for Medline’s $7.2bn IPO.

In this role, Watt will work closely with Quad-C’s investment teams to support the firm’s continued growth through the sourcing and origination of new platform investments and add-on acquisitions.

'I'm sure there will be a lot of movement going forward and continuing the path which we have opened,' Ilinca Rosetti, operating partner, JC Flowers, told PE Hub.

Highlighting how various subsegments of the women’s health market have caught the eye of private equity firms such as Ardian, CVC and Verdane; a look at Excellere Partners and GHO Capital Partners’ $950 million agreement to sell a pathology services company to Agilent Therapeutics; new appointments announced by Vistria.