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As artificial intelligence and automation begin to reach smaller businesses, dealmakers see a generational opportunity to create value in one of the market’s most fragmented sectors.
As GP-led secondaries scale to record levels, top investors are flagging a widening gap between trophy assets and weaker deals, even as new financing tools like CFOs further blur the line between sale and securitization.
To close valuation gaps, sponsors are turning more often to hybrid capital stacks with waterfalls, sponsor overhang, and various preferred stock structures.
Infrastructure managers are raising ever-larger funds to acquire power plants and grid assets, betting that electricity will become one of the scarcest commodities of the AI era.
Middle-market sponsors are sitting on thousands of aging portfolio companies as hold periods stretch, multiples reset and sector-specific headwinds—from healthcare policy to AI disruption—reshape the path to liquidity.
The acquisition strengthens DwyerOmega’s precision temperature measurement product offering in cryogenics, while expanding its measurement capabilities into magnetics.
JRI Hospitality CEO Jason Ingermanson discusses acquisition discipline, private equity interest and why Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers could eventually go public.
From packaging to robotics, strategic acquirers are quietly stitching together the early framework of a manufacturing revival that private equity hopes to join later.
As larger private equity firms push downstream in search of deals, investors are discovering that convincing founder-led businesses to engage requires more than price.
In a proprietary Mergers & Acquisitions study, dealmakers describe how sourcing strategies have evolved since 2020 and what’s working in today’s market.
New analysis reveals a 227% drop in net profits at private companies since 2020, even as public peers strengthened. With liquidity running out, one analyst warns of rising bankruptcies, lender takeovers and distressed exits to come next year.
As GP-led secondaries scale to record levels, top investors are flagging a widening gap between trophy assets and weaker deals, even as new financing tools like CFOs further blur the line between sale and securitization.
To close valuation gaps, sponsors are turning more often to hybrid capital stacks with waterfalls, sponsor overhang, and various preferred stock structures.
As consumers drink less and producers grapple with oversupply, alcohol M&A has cooled — but seasoned investors say today’s reset could mirror past downturns that produced outsized returns.
Vertical SaaS players with defensible moats are commanding premium valuations and M&A interest, outperforming horizontal platforms as AI reshapes the sector.
The target manufactures threaded fasteners for the infrastructure, power generation, construction, telecommunications, industrial manufacturing and agriculture sectors.
As artificial intelligence and automation begin to reach smaller businesses, dealmakers see a generational opportunity to create value in one of the market’s most fragmented sectors.
The acquisition strengthens DwyerOmega’s precision temperature measurement product offering in cryogenics, while expanding its measurement capabilities into magnetics.
