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  Weekend Analysis

  PE has yet to prove its AI bets to investors

  June 18, 2026

  Mainly targeted at administrative tasks, far rarer has AI been implemented by PE firms in a way that can increase revenue.

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  Industrials

  PhysicsX’s $300M Series C signals growing VC bet on industrial AI

  June 8, 2026

  The London-based startup raised at a $2.4B valuation, doubling its price tag in a year.

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  Fundraising

  PE’s capital concentration phenomenon reaches new heights

  May 26, 2026

  The 10 largest funds accounted for more than half of all capital raised, with industrial-focused Triton and Greenbriar among the winners

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  Buyouts

  PE hopes garage door roll-ups will be the new HVAC

  April 17, 2026

  HVAC businesses proved to be one of the best roll-up opportunities in PE, and garage door suppliers share many of the same characteristics.

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  Private Equity

  CD&R acquires Sealed Air for $10.3B, extending mega-take-private wave

  November 17, 2025

  The transaction adds to a wave of mega deals amid rising confidence in leveraged financing markets.

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  Private Equity

  Q&A: How Goldman Sachs’ ETF targets PE returns with public stocks

  November 5, 2025

  The investment bank teamed up with MSCI to create an investible index that aims to mirror the region, sector and style of the universe of PE managers.

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  Private Equity

  Arlington Capital’s $6 billion haul seizes on the defense boom

  October 30, 2025

  The PE firm’s latest fund is 58% larger than its predecessor, underscoring investors’ voracious appetite for defense- and government-linked assets.

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  Private Equity

  Lone Star agrees to acquire Hillenbrand for $3.8B as PE firms target larger take-private deals

  October 15, 2025

  The total value of take-privates so far this year has surpassed 2021 levels, when pandemic-era restrictions sparked a surge in M&A.

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  Infrastructure

  Carving out a niche in the data center boom

  October 10, 2025

  Mid-market PE firms are forging their own path to capitalize on the data center gold rush.

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  PE Exits

  Legence tests IPO market’s rebound for PE-backed assets

  September 12, 2025

  The Blackstone-backed engineering and maintenance service provider to sectors including data centers saw its shares rise 9% in its Nasdaq debut on Friday.

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  Infrastructure

  PE shelters from tariffs by building up in construction

  September 12, 2025

  Deal activity and values in the sector rose 28% on an annual basis in H1.

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  Private Equity

  American Securities and CD&R exit Foundation Building Materials in $8.8B deal

  August 20, 2025

  The private equity firms achieve strong returns after a 2021 LBO and 2024 growth equity investment as corporates look to strengthen their building products supply

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  Capital Pool

  Brookfield PE head: ‘We’ve never been financial engineers’

  July 29, 2025

  David Nowak, president of Brookfield’s private equity group, talks perpetual capital, nuclear power and DPI.

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  Private Equity

  Trade agreement adds tailwinds to PE investment in Japan

  July 23, 2025

  The deal between the US and Japan could fuel PE investment in the auto and auto parts industries, among others.

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  Private Equity

  PE firms stay out of Medicaid fray with occupational health merger

  July 16, 2025

  Angeles Equity Partners and Kain Capital double down on employer-funded care, making a new healthcare services company largely insulated terms of the “Big Beautiful Bill.”

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  Private Equity

  PE sponsors consider alternatives to China-plus-one supply chain strategy

  April 11, 2025

  President Trump’s 90-day pause on most tariffs, China’s retaliatory measures and evolving supply chain risks force a strategic rethink in private equity.

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  Weekend Analysis

  Ever-changing tariffs keep PE firms on edge

  March 21, 2025

  PE buyers and sellers, worried about tariff uncertainty, are hesitant to ink new deals. But some dealmakers see opportunities to revitalize previously unfavored assets.

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  Private Equity

  Aerospace and defense dealmaking takes flight

  March 5, 2025

  In 2024, PE firms struck an estimated 333 transactions involving A&D companies, topping a very active 2021.

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