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Advent’s $2.5B Sapiens Deal Takes Bet on Insurance Tech
Plus: We outline portco M&A and exits from last week.
 • Isabel O'Brien
Crunching the Data on TA Associates’ $760M FD Technologies Deal
Plus: We outline portco M&A and exits from last week.
 • Isabel O'Brien
Will Private Equity Decimate Retirement Plans?
Plus: We outline portco M&A and exits from the past two weeks.
 • Isabel O'Brien
How Did Advent Lose Spectris?
Plus: We outline portco M&A and exits from last week.
 • Isabel O'Brien
SPECIAL EDITION: A PE POV on NY Tech Week
Plus: We outline portco M&A and exits from last week.
 • Isabel O'Brien
Gemspring Buys Legacy Chemicals Business From Goodyear for $650M
Plus: We outline portco M&A and exits from last week.
 • Isabel O'Brien
3G Rewrites Its Operational Ethos with $9.4B Skechers Take-Private
Plus: We outline portco M&A and exits from last week.
 • Isabel O'Brien
PE-Backed Companies Dominated Q1 2025 Debt Defaults
According to Fitch Ratings, 15 of the 23 leveraged loan and high yield debt defaults in Q1 were by private equity-owned companies. Portcos also…
 • Isabel O'Brien
CVC Dreams Big with $5B Dream Games Acquisition
Plus: We outline portco M&A and exits from last week.
 • Isabel O'Brien
Thoma Bravo’s $10.5B Boeing Deal Braces for Turbulence
Plus: Fitch downgrades ‘deteriorating’ global leveraged finance market and we outline portco M&A and exits from last week.
 • Isabel O'Brien
KKR’s $3.1B OSTTRA Play is Firm’s First Foray into Post-Trade Services
Plus: We outline portco M&A and exits from last week.
 • Isabel O'Brien
Artificial Intelligence May Slash Operating Teams
Fewer operating professionals will be required to get the same (or better) outputs at the portfolio company level.
 • Isabel O'Brien
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