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  Retail

  Sainsbury’s sells Argos to Swift Partners for $161M a decade after $1.8B deal

  July 31, 2026

  The deal comes less than a year after failed talks to sell the retailer to JD.com.

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  Analyst Insights

  A game of straits

  July 29, 2026

  The scramble to address oil transit bottlenecks and the PE opportunity it presents.

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  Wealth Managers

  Investcorp buys wealth manager Berger Financial Group

  July 29, 2026

  The $62B investment manager plans to ‘create another sizable player’ by acquiring smaller peers, said managing director Vitali Bourchtein.

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  APAC

  How the AI value chain is reshaping APAC deal flow

  July 27, 2026

  The year’s largest transactions span across LLMs, chips, data centers and energy grids.

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  Middle East

  Saudi PE dealmaking bounces back from 2025 trough

  July 27, 2026

  A new wave of blind-pool funds signals growing LP trust in domestic managers.

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  Weekend Analysis

  The hidden cost of PE’s AI rush

  July 24, 2026

  Rising expenses, overpromised returns, and AI slop could erode the trust firms depend on.

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  Carveouts

  Nestlé’s $3bn water deal adds to Europe’s carveout wave

  July 23, 2026

  PitchBook data shows 2026 carveout value on pace to be the third-strongest year on record, even as deal count lags 2025’s pace.

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  Infrastructure

  Partners Group’s $5.5B infra secondaries close leans on value creation, not discount

  July 23, 2026

  More than 70% of the program’s capital came from new clients, as institutional appetite for infrastructure liquidity solutions accelerates.

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  Secondaries

  Ardian alumni’s Clipway breaks debut secondaries record at $6.4B

  July 21, 2026

  Founded by three former Ardian executives, the London firm is leaning on its AI-powered sourcing model.

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  Netherlands

  Dutch PE fundraising hits six-year high as dealmaking cools

  July 17, 2026

  Pension reform is freeing institutions in the Netherlands to pour more capital into private markets, even as sponsors turn more cautious about new deals in the country.

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  PE Exits

  European PE’s exit backlog hits decade high

  July 16, 2026

  The continent’s deals-to-exit ratio climbed to 2.9x in H1 2026, up from 2.4x last year.

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  Infrastructure

  Why Seraya Partners is betting where Asia’s infrastructure giants aren’t

  July 15, 2026

  The Singapore investment firm is building energy transition and digital infrastructure businesses from scratch.

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  United Kingdom

  M&A in the UK is set to break record, but PE sponsors are sidelined

  July 15, 2026

  PE sponsors captured just 15% of the country’s 10 largest deals by value in H1.

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  Venture Capital

  NY’s data center freeze adds a new risk for AI investors: State regulation

  July 14, 2026

  A one-year pause on data center permitting makes New York state the first to enact a moratorium.

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  Sports

  Khosla family’s record $9.6B Seahawks deal caps a private-capital rush into the NFL

  July 13, 2026

  Vinod Khosla is not the only VC or PE investor with ownership of a pro US football team.

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  Public-Private Convergence

  Private wealth funds ditch the middleman for more alternatives exposure

  July 10, 2026

  Managers for the ultra-wealthy set up their own institutional-grade fund vehicles to ‘get a seat at the table’.

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  Public-to-Private

  EasyJet swaps Castlelake for Apollo in $7.7B bidding war

  July 10, 2026

  The rival offer for the British budget airline extends a run of US-led take-privates of UK companies that hit £12.5B in the first four months of 2026.

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  Europe

  Megadeals mask a fragile European PE recovery

  July 9, 2026

  Deal and exit values are surging, but concentration and a fundraising drought reveal a more cautious picture.

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