Private Equity Insights

JUNE 29, 2023

Qualtrics, the software company behind an experience management platform used by thousands of companies such as Uber, Coca-Cola and Pfizer, has accepted a $12.5 billion all-cash offer from private equity firm Silver Lake and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments).

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Axial

MAY 4, 2023

These league tables can serve as an information resource for business owners and investment firms who are actively seeking to hire a vetted M&A advisor to assist them in navigating exit strategy. Find An Investment Banker to Help Sell Your Business Congratulations to the top 25 investment banks!

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

And that’s what’s really interesting, that they know the publicly-traded companies, they know the private companies, but they don’t know the holding companies for the private companies. That is fascinating. So we’re already in a few months really hitting the cover off the ball.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

For all the years the investigation found child labor, PSSI has been owned by Wall Street's Blackstone--the largest private equity firm in the world. Blackstone told us "extensive pre-investment due diligence showed PSSI had industry-leading hiring compliance." Clearly that wasn't the case here. Therein lies the problem.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 20, 2023

So is our ambition to integrate sustainability into the life cycle of our investment process to drive value creation." in a joint transaction with private investment firm Searchlight Capital Partners. My take: This is a great deal for BCI and Searchlight, a private equity firm BCI seeded.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

You had a lot of the big buyout firms, they were doing the transactions in the ‘80s, in the early ‘90s. But, you know, these large firms were spinning off smaller private equity firms. So lots of folks work there that now run very large alternative asset management firms and credit arms of firms.,

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

. ~~~ BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, another extra special guest from the world of private markets, the Partners Group is probably the largest private equity firm you’ve never heard of, perhaps because they were originally headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. in Colorado.

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Clearlake Capital Group

DECEMBER 18, 2023

(NYSE: AYX), the Analytics Cloud Platform company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. together with certain of its affiliates, “Clearlake”) and Insight Partners (“Insight”), two global private equity firms, in a transaction valued at $4.4

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