Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

Buyout firms TA Associates and Warburg Pincus have hired investment bank William Blair to advise Procare on its sale process that is expected to launch after Labor Day, the sources said, requesting anonymity because the matter is confidential. Read more Bain Capital Invests in Sales Tech Startup Apollo.io

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Buyout firm L Catterton, backed by luxury conglomerate LVMH, is to acquire a majority stake in the pilates studio operator Solidcore from VMG Partners, Peterson Partners, and Kohlberg & Company in a deal that values the fitness chain at $700m, according to a report by Reuters.

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Axial

JANUARY 23, 2025

Axial is excited to release our 2024 Lower Middle Market Investment Banking League Tables. To assemble this list, we reviewed the deal-making activities of 400+ investment banks and advisory firms that met the qualifications to be considered for league tables last year.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

Venture capital was the nomenclature for everything that was basically a private investment. RITHOLTZ: But you’re not dealing with startups; you’re dealing with — BARATTA: Correct. RITHOLTZ: — firms or private equity firms? BARATTA: Yeah. The first job for Morgan Stanley was McCown De Leeuw.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

I work for a really senior guy in the investment bank. We should be like, 00:06:58 [Speaker Changed] It’s 00:06:58 [Speaker Changed] A startup. But because these are really good businesses, which got levered, they got leveraged through these leverage buyouts. This business is just starting. And still growing.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. RITHOLTZ: Oh, really? KLINSKY: Yeah.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Last fall, the company invited investment banks to pitch for roles in an IPO that could have valued the battery maker at US$20 billion, the FT then reported. Two buyout funds West Street Capital Partners VII and West Street Capital Partners VIII have $407mn and $346mn invested in Northvolt, respectively.

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