Michael Schoeck

Highlighting Sophia Popova from Summit Partners and Brooke Sorensen from Apollo as part of our Women in Private Equity Class of 2025; a scoop on ATL Partners shopping a logistics company that serves the live music, arts and entertainment markets; a scoop on a Leonard Green & Partners continuation fund for five companies; a companies-for-sale update.

The New York-based private equity firm is vetting buyout interest in Global Critical Logistics, with three sellside advisers retained.

Shining the spotlight on Beth Holzberger from the Wisconsin Investment Board, Neha Jatar from EQT and Allison Klazkin from Cortec Group; a deal announcement involving a logistics company previously predicted (by us) to be acquired by Audax Private Equity.

Over Dickerson’s tenure, Genstar has grown from less than $200m of assets under management to $49bn of AUM.

A look at quarterly M&A activity from KPMG and exploring what the busiest sectors were during the first quarter of this year; a weekly round-up of companies-for-sale coverage; two new deals involving roofing and electrical services add-ons.

Launched in February, initially the seller targeted primarily strategics, but in recent weeks has opened up to PE suitors.

An exclusive: Audax Private Equity is buying Lanter Delivery Systems from Equity Group Investments; a weekly rundown of companies for sale activity; a new partnership formed between Energy Capital Partners and ADQ to invest in power generation for data centers.

The price tag is around $1bn, or 10x the company's $100m of EBITDA, according to one of the sources.

A NEXUS 2025 video interview with Bridgepoint chief investment officer Xavier Robert; a deep dive into the fire safety, testing and inspection market with Agellus Capital’s co-founder and managing partner Jeff Aiello; a deal announcement involving a classic apparel brand receiving take-private interest.

PE transactions in the fire safety sector have generated frothy 17x-20x EBITDA exits, sources told PE Hub.