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Under CEO Nancy Langer, core banking provider CSI is using acquisitions like Qolo and Apiture to provide small lenders with the commercial tech needed to defend their margins.
Blackstone President Jon Gray and Pimco CEO Emmanuel Roman warn that the massive capital requirements for AI infrastructure are creating unsustainable debt concentration risks, necessitating a shift toward equity financing.
Private investment firm CD&R and private equity group GTCR have launched a joint $40 billion buyout bid for card processor Global Payments.
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings has agreed to acquire ADT for $15.3 billion, marking a massive bet on integrating frontier artificial intelligence into legacy physical security infrastructure.
Healthcare and life sciences private equity firm Archimed expands its international footprint by acquiring a majority position in Brazil-based wastewater treatment specialist Genetica Bioscience.
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe has liquefied a massive $2.8 billion position in senior-focused primary care clinics, transferring its stake in joint ventures with Humana to BlackRock's HPS Investment Partners.
TA Associates has agreed to sell geotechnical software provider Rocscience to Hexagon AB, marking a significant realization in the industrial software sector.
Trilantic North America realizes a $945 million exit with the sale of SOFIE Biosciences, capitalizing on surging strategic buyer appetite in the radiopharmaceuticals sector.
Blackstone has reached an agreement to exit B2B events platform Clarion Events at a $3 billion enterprise value, marking a significant realization in the private equity secondary market.
Los Angeles-based Diversis Capital has secured a majority stake in Tideworks Technology, marking a strategic exit for Blackstone-backed Carrix as logistics automation gains momentum.
Trading Technologies, a portfolio company of Thoma Bravo and 7Ridge, has acquired TRAFiX, an equities trading platform, signaling continued consolidation in financial technology infrastructure driven by private equity.
AI infrastructure provider Accelevation Holdings Corp. completed its initial public offering, raising $540 million, but priced below its marketed range and saw shares decline shortly after trading began.
The formation of the American Infrastructure Alliance marks a pivot for big tech and private equity, signaling that the bottleneck for AI growth has shifted from compute capacity to political and physical infrastructure.
Audax Private Equity has agreed to divest specialty wire and cable distributor GCG to Rexel in a transaction valuing the business on a revenue pace exceeding $1.1 billion.
A consortium led by BlackRock and IFM Investors is nearing a $25 billion acquisition of Stack Infrastructure's Asia-Pacific data center portfolio, signaling intense institutional capital deployment into foundational compute assets.
Apollo Global Management has committed $1.25 billion to facilitate the merger of BMG and Concord, signaling a major consolidation play in the music rights and publishing sector.
Warburg Pincus and Berkshire Partners are exiting Consolidated Precision Products (CPP) in an $11.75 billion deal with GE Aerospace, marking a significant liquidity event for the private equity firms and a strategic acquisition in the aerospace supply chain.
EQT has reached a definitive agreement to acquire insurance broker McGill and Partners from Warburg Pincus for $2 billion, marking a significant liquidity event for the firm's 2019 vintage investment.
Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Cleanhill Partners have agreed to sell Poway, California-based EPC Power to Flex for $4.4 billion, marking a significant exit in the critical power conversion sector.
The Portland Fire WNBA franchise, valued at $380 million, highlights the escalating capital flowing into women's professional sports, driven by owners with a proven track record in consumer brands and sports ventures.
Yellow Wood Partners has agreed to acquire Nestlé's Holistic Health business for $1 billion, a significant transaction underscoring private equity's continued appetite for established consumer health brands and setting a benchmark for the broader M&A market.
Apollo Global Management is acquiring a major stake in Atlantic Aviation, valuing the FBO operator at nearly $10 billion and delivering a massive paper gain for majority owner KKR.
Accel-KKR-backed Basware is set to acquire Trustpair, a specialist in supplier bank account verification, underscoring ongoing consolidation in the B2B financial software sector and offering a clear exit path for specialized SaaS firms.
Private equity-backed Ode’s acquisition of AI services firm Casper Studios, in partnership with Anthropic, highlights a shifting exit landscape where integration talent is key.
Boston-based private equity firm THL has agreed to acquire website traffic manager Queue-it from Nordic sponsor GRO Capital, marking a key secondary exit in the enterprise SaaS sector.
The SEC has accused a New York financier of defrauding retirees through undisclosed fees on sales of private market shares in high-profile startups like SpaceX, Anduril, Anthropic, and Perplexity.
SpaceX's privately traded shares have surpassed the $135 per share mark, often cited as a notional IPO price, for the first time in several weeks, buoyed by stronger-than-expected second-quarter revenue.
New Mountain Capital has agreed to acquire Jensen Hughes from Gryphon Investors, marking a significant exit for Gryphon and a strategic bet by New Mountain on mission-critical engineering services.
Alternative investment platform CAIS has closed a $170 million Series D round, effectively doubling its valuation to $2 billion amid a push for fintech scale.
Indian quick-commerce firm Zepto has turned to private investors for capital after delaying its initial public offering, unable to secure its target valuation in public markets.