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Amazon, Google, Intel, Microsoft and Salesforce use VC funds to compliment their M&A strategies. We check in with dealmakers from Alvarez & Marsal, Riverside, Merrill and Paul Hastings about the potential impact of the coronavirus, also known as Covid-19 on the middle-market. Costco buys logistics company.

Mergers & Acquisitions profiles the top 10 most active private equity firms in 2019, based on the volume of completed deals in the U.S., according to PitchBook.

Brown Advisory, Carlyle International Energy, Intrepid, Monitor Capital and Searchlight Capital are raising capital, according to SEC filings.

Time is running out. Nominations are due Friday, February 7 for the M&A Mid-Market Awards. Past winners include Nike. Carlyle reports first earnings since becoming a C-corp. PE news from Ecosystem, Bain, Freeman Spogli.

BorgWarner buys Delphi, as the auto industry moves to electric cars. Royal Philips looking to sell domestic appliances business. Carlyle invests in solar energy. Activists investors including, Starboard, which has invested in Papa John's, work to improve their images.

Private equity firms are also becoming one-stop shops, launching more non-traditional offerings such as private debt, real asset and real estate funds as a way to expand product lines and create more options for investors.

Often dismissed by bankers as winning work mostly on its own deals and not often in the lead role, KKR says more than half of the debt deals it manages are now done for third parties.

Swift took direct shots at Soros, Carlyle and the sports and media-focused investment firm 23 Capital for helping music manager Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings purchase of her old catalog.

Carlyle-led group buys majority stake in insurer Fortitude from AIG. Blackstone backs bladder cancer treatment company through JV. Kroger, Walmart , invest in smart supermarkets. More deal news from Silver Lake, Palo Alto.

PE firms, including Carlyle, Apollo and Blackstone, have been building their own insurance vehicles in recent years.