Obey Martin Manayiti
Rising passenger numbers are boosting commercial aviation; geopolitical volatility is bolstering defense investment; and tech breakthroughs are supporting everything.
A Q&A with Tom Ehrhart, a managing director at GTCR, who detailed how the firm will leverage its long history of investing in residential and commercial security space, to grow SimpliSafe; Francisco Partners agrees to acquire OEConnection, an auto tech platform, from Genstar Capital; Trive Capital forms Avari, a short-term vacation rental property management platform.
Talking with American Securities partner Kevin Penn who detailed how the firm scaled FBM before its sale last month; Gemspring Capital Management has acquired The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s polymer chemicals business; MiddleGround Capital is set to sell Lindsay Precast to TJC; a look at the strategic partnership between Hamilton Lane and The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America.
FBM made four major acquisitions and almost 20 smaller ones during American Securities ownership.
Dealmaking picked up in the third quarter, and PEI Group's data journalism team crunched the numbers from S&P Global Market Intelligence data to show where the most activity is taking place; Archimed carves out Ark Diagnostics from Soulbrain; a new episode of PEI Group’s Disruption Matters podcast miniseries, in which PE executives discuss charting a better path to growth in 2026.
Blackstone and TPG are taking women’s health specialist Hologic private for $18.3 billion; Incline Equity Partners closes a single-asset continuation fund for Accredited Labs at approximately $300 million; Decarbonization Partners, Climate Investment and Activate Capital have provided growth equity financing to a manufacturer of sustainable liquid and air-cooling technologies as well as control systems.
The firm has returned billions in capital to investors since early 2024, according to the firm’s co-head of North America private equity.
Catching up with Matt Raino, a partner and co-head of financial services at Madison Dearborn Partners, about opportunities that the firm identified with its Insurance Office of America investment; Carlyle releases proprietary indicators providing some windows into the health of the US economy; Broad Sky Partners portfolio company Commonwealth Electrical Technology makes its debut add-on.
'MDP believes there are multiple drivers to accelerate organic growth that are not reliant upon industry tailwinds,' Raino said.
Newly formed Catchment Capital has made its debut deal, of an Ottawa-headquartered provider of outsourced advanced electronic and embedded system design services; PE Hub speaks with Chip Chaikin, a partner at Blue Point, on how his firm built a platform that attracted Grant Thornton.