PE Hub Staff

Like your 80-year-old great aunt’s refusal to use a smartphone, private equity has stubbornly resisted technology adoption and digital modernization. Your aunt has a generational excuse. Private equity does not. But behind the ubiquity of excel spreadsheets, we are starting to see a shift toward digitization and modernization. This shift underscores private equity’s slow (but […]

“There is an epidemic failure in the game to understand what is really happening.” That’s the beginning of fictional-character Peter Brand’s now-famous speech to A’s GM Billy Beane in the movie Moneyball, which depicts the birth of the sabermetric era of baseball (based on Michael Lewis’ book of the same name). With the MLB playoffs […]

As legacy businesses are becoming more and more desperate to attract younger employees, customers and audiences, they are shelling out boatloads of cash to develop incubators and venture arms and are even buying “cool” companies outright. Just recently, for example, AB InBev’s “innovation, incubation and investment” unit ZX Ventures took a stake in a soda […]

Churchill Asset Management has provided an $80 mln credit facility to support Sentinel Capital Partners' acquisition of SSJA Bariatric Management.

Since 2012, the total number of private equity deals have increased within the healthcare sector year after year. As of mid-December 2018, a record breaking 464 private equity deals had closed with a combined value of $35 billion. Attracted by the high return on investment the healthcare sector can generate for portfolios, the current investment […]

Policymakers and politicians have become increasingly aware of the remarkable rise of private equity. True to form, the Beltway has done its part to add growing pains to the growth of the industry. Throughout 2016 and 2017, during the runup to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, political crosshairs were set on the carried interest […]

Co-investing is an area in which investor interest doesn’t seem to be abating. There are plenty of ardent proponents of the practice, as well as some vehement skeptics. One thing that seems certain, though, is that co-investment is an ingrained and fundamentally important part of the private markets landscape and a subject that commands ongoing […]

Oxford Finance LLC has provided a $7.5 mln loan to Toronto-based MolecuLight, a medical imaging company.

The old adage about the finance industry is “if you want loyalty on Wall Street, get a dog.”  That mentality has slowly crept onto Main Street as cultural norms have shifted, a strong job market has persisted and the options for consumers have exploded and are just a click away. A much-referenced LinkedIn study reported that […]

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