M&A wrap: TH Lee, Dun & Bradstreet, Rite Aid, Albertsons, Cerberus, private equity fundraising

Tenet provides long-term real estate capital to middle-market companies through net-lease investments and sale-leaseback transactions

From a cross-asset CFO to rising deferred-payment terms and billion-dollar continuation vehicles, private equity's liquidity toolkit is converging — and testing how much of the real price GPs are willing to show.

Public pensions searching for smaller, less-correlated private-equity bets are fueling demand for firms that specialize in fixing troubled businesses.