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

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

The Q2 2026 Manufacturing Launch Report provides in-depth analysis of industry trends and evolving PE investment strategies, including deals data and maps of key PE-backed companies and investors. This report spotlights the major Manufacturing PE segments.

A potential tie-up with Leonard Green & Partners would help the listed giant expand a relatively small PE footprint and boost its fee-paying AUM.

The Q2 2026 Clean Energy Report provides in-depth analysis of industry trends and evolving PE investment strategies, including deals data and maps of key PE-backed companies and investors.

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

A wave of deals hit amid concerns over oil supply security.

The top private capital managers across 29 strategic and geographic categories, ranked by historical performance.

The 2025 PitchBook Global Manager Performance Score League Tables identify the top fund families across 10 fund strategies.

The largest LPs keep writing checks to managers that can’t beat their smaller peers—and will probably continue to do so

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

This analyst note uses PitchBook’s Return Barometers to model how private market strategies might have performed during past stagflation, oil shock, and bubble-deflation episodes.

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

The H1 2026 APAC Private Capital Breakdown examines the region’s PE and VC markets in Greater China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia & New Zealand, and Southeast Asia.

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

The Q2 2026 Germany Market Snapshot provides an overview of macroeconomic and microeconomic trends in the region spanning both private and public markets.

It will target markets where incumbents are protected by high switching costs and regulatory barriers.

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