Morgan Stanley

PE firms and strategic buyers invest in healthcare subsectors from pharmaceuticals to RCM; P&G acquires Merck's consumer health business; Liberty Hall closes first fund.

The drugmaker recently reached deals for Bioverativ and Ablynx.

Outdoor activity retailer Camping World expands; Federated Investors backs London fund manager; payments processors merge.

LLR Partners invests in payments software provider; FedEX purchases logistics company; Ardian hires U.S. infrastructure co-head.

TransDigm pays $525 million for airplanes parts maker; Deloitte's Ray Ballotta says oil and gas M&A will rebound in 2018; PE firm Cynosure Group hires investor relations head.

J.P. Morgan’s total dollar value of completed middle-market M&A deals was the highest of any investment bank in the world. Goldman Sachs & Co., Morgan Stanley, Rothschild & Co. and Credit Suisse were among the top 5 in deal value.

Blue Wolf Capital, IOP, Platte River, Ridgemont and Riverside have previously raised private equity funds as well.

Apollo has previously invested Chuck E. Cheese and Carl's Jr.

The buyer’s financial technology network will be used to help manage and market opportunities at middle-market funds.

The private equity formed Vantage in 2008 and sold it to Jordan Co. in 2012.