Michael Schoeck
A look at three business services companies being lined up for sale by private equity owners; highlighting Littlejohn & Co’s sale of the industrials business of Total Safety US to Mill Point.
Audax, Harvest, MSouth, Olympus and Snowdon are among the PE firms expecting to test the market.
AI was everything everywhere all at once this week at PEI Group’s fourth annual Women in Private Markets Summit: North America; weekly update on companies for sale, featuring Wynnchurch’s exit of a garbage truck company.
Power and infrastructure PE investor ArcLight Capital announces plans to be acquired by data center company DigitalBridge for $1.05 billion; some background intel about KKR’s sale of Circor’s aircraft fluid control, actuation and landing gear parts group to Parker-Hannafin for $2.6 billion.
Onex, Frontenac and the Sterling Group are expected to test the market for their portfolio compainies, while OEP has put one sale process on hold, sources say.
Insight on the Iran War’s impact on upstream energy M&A deals, with talking points from Houlihan Lokey’s global head of oil and gas JP Hanson.; highlighting the top three PE-backed deals of 2026 in the oil and gas market; the weekly companies-for-sale update, which touches on GenNx360 Capital’s sale of an aviation MRO business to a strategic for above $2 billion deal value.
Excerpts from four stories about business service companies coming to market, gleaned from the ACG DealMax 2026 conference; insight from Capstone Partners from their annual Industrials Middle Market Deal Activity and Outlook.
The HVAC and plumbing service provider could sell for $480m or more, based on peers selling for around 16x EBITDA.
Cleanwater1 could fetch a 15x-17x EBITDA multiple at exit, based on $40m of recent year EBITDA.
The Boston-based PE firm could see bids come in valuing the target at 12x-14x EBITDA