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Private equity refers to investment into companies that are not publicly listed. PE firms typically acquire businesses, apply operational changes, and seek an exit through a sale or public listing, usually over a three-to-seven year horizon.
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Iger and Kushner buy the Lakers at $12.5bnBob Iger and Thrive Capital's Josh Kushner are buying the Los Angeles Lakers at a $12.5 billion valuation, barely a year after Mark Walter's TWG Global took control of the team from the Buss family…Air Canada prices its loyalty scheme at C$10 billionBlackstone and Quebec's La Caisse are paying C$2.5 billion for a 25% stake in Aeroplan, alongside PSP Investments and BCI, in a deal that values the points programme alone at C$10 billion, accordin…Ari Emmanuel buys the West End's biggest theatre owner for £4.5bnThe Endeavor chief's move into live theatre ownership puts a Hollywood dealmaker in charge of a sizeable chunk of London's stage economy.Nvidia recruits Wall Street to finance the AI boom it's selling intoApollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR have agreed to build compute-financing platforms targeting more than $500 billion in third-party capital, according to Reuters. The …Bezos edges closer to a £4.5bn Liverpool stakeFenway Sports Group has confirmed talks over a strategic minority investment led by Amit Bhatia, son-in-law of steel billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, but has stopped short of naming Jeff Bezos as a buye…Apollo takes easyJet private in £5.7bn dealCastlelake walked away from the bidding and Apollo Global Management stepped in to take easyJet private for £5.7bn, roughly $7.7bn at current rates. That price is a premium to where easyJet shares …AbbVie borrows $8bn for Apogee as pharma dealmaking keeps its paceAbbVie is raising at least $8 billion in debt to fund its Apogee Therapeutics acquisition, adding to a pharma M&A cycle that's barely paused since the Pfizer and Bristol Myers deals of the past two…SpaceX's first earnings test lands right as $100bn in stock unlocksSpaceX has never had to answer public-market-style earnings questions, and the timing here is brutal: its first real scrutiny arrives days before roughly $100bn of employee and early-investor stock…KKR and a $6.7bn radiopharma deal say private equity still wants healthcareKKR's $4.3bn purchase of Integer Holdings, a medical device components maker, lands the same week Lantheus Holdings agrees to be acquired for an initial $6.7bn, and together they confirm that healt…DCC's £5.75bn sale confirms the FTSE 100 is still a shopping list for US buyersDCC, the Irish-founded, London-listed energy and distribution conglomerate, has agreed to a £5.75 billion sale to US acquirers, the latest in a run of FTSE 100 names falling to overseas bidders thi…Another defence startup files for a US IPO, and the queue is getting crowdedTrive-backed Lyntris joining the defence IPO rush confirms investor appetite for military tech hasn't cooled since the sector's valuations reset upward on NATO spending commitments and the Ukraine …Segro's third rejection of Prologis is a price discovery exercise, not a defenceTurning down £13.5bn three times while leaving the door open is Segro's board signalling it knows what the business is worth and Prologis hasn't got there yet. Prologis is the world's largest wareh…Andrew Forrest just bet on tungsten, and defence supply chains explain whyThe Fortescue billionaire's stake in a tungsten miner sent the stock jumping, and the logic is straightforward: tungsten is a critical input for munitions and hard alloys, China controls roughly 80…Stripe wants to buy the company it was supposed to replacePayPal was the incumbent Stripe spent fifteen years positioning itself against, and now Stripe and private equity firm Advent are offering roughly $53.4 billion to own it outright. PayPal shares ju…Rawlings changing hands again shows PE's exit problem in niche sports gearA 139-year-old brand surviving multiple ownership changes is proof the product is durable; the fact that Seidler Equity wants out now says more about PE fund cycles than about baseball. Seidler is …Jersey Mike's IPO is Blackstone testing whether the consumer story has enough runway left to sellJersey Mike's, the US sandwich chain backed by Blackstone, has filed for an IPO after reporting 50 percent same-store sales growth over recent years, and the timing is a deliberate read of the mark…Edgewell's shares jump after it rejects a takeover approachA target company's shares rising on a rejected bid usually means the market thinks a higher offer is coming, not that the board made the right call. Edgewell, which owns Schick and Wilkinson Sword,…EasyJet has now rejected Castlelake three times. The third refusal is the interesting one.EasyJet's board has rejected a third takeover approach from US private credit firm Castlelake, valuing the airline at approximately £4.7 billion, describing the offer as 'highly opportunistic'. Cas…VW used sealed bids to stop a private equity firm with shareholder backing from winning by defaultVolkswagen's decision to run a sealed-bid process for its engines business, reported at a $10 billion price target, is an admission that EQT had assembled enough shareholder support to make an open…Apollo and Bain are leading the Continental ContiTech auction, and the debt package tells you what lenders think of European carve-outs right nowApollo and Bain Capital have advanced to the front of the pack in the auction for Continental's ContiTech industrial unit, with a valuation range of roughly 3.5 billion to more than 4 billion euros…Apollo hunts Japanese life insurer for $5.8tn market accessThe private equity giant is actively seeking to acquire or partner with a Japanese life insurer to tap the country's ¥900 trillion in life insurance reserves. Apollo already has eight reinsurance d…Bruin Capital's Pyne calls FIFA revenue figures 'mind-blowing'The sports investment firm's CEO used Bloomberg TV to highlight FIFA's commercial scale as evidence of how professionalised the global sports economy has become. Bruin has deployed $3 billion acros…D.E. Shaw extends hedge fund lock-ups to four yearsThe $90 billion quant giant has lengthened withdrawal periods to as long as four years in its flagship multi-strategy funds, making it harder for investors to pull capital quickly. The move follows…Bill Ackman to exit Universal Music with $600m gainPershing Square is selling its 4.5 percent stake in Universal Music Group just days after UMG's board rejected Ackman's $65 billion takeover bid. The exit crystallizes roughly $600 million in profi…Ellison privately vows to control debt in $108bn Paramount-WBD dealLarry Ellison is telling credit analysts he'll "do whatever it takes" to reduce leverage at a combined Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery, backing his $108 billion hostile bid with personal guarantees…Google and Blackstone target private equity for AI omnibus dealsGoogle is negotiating omnibus licensing agreements with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies access to Gemini AI models, treating private equity as a distribution channel for …Elliott builds stake in Bio-Rad as activist targets expandElliott has built a sizeable position in Bio-Rad Laboratories, betting it can unlock value from a company that's down 70% from pandemic highs and trading like a broken growth story. The activist's …Private equity retreats from India's billion-dollar dealsIndia's PE market has split in two: record deal volume but collapsing values as sponsors balk at seller prices. Q1 2026 saw 415 PE deals worth $9.1 billion, down 34% in value despite near-record tr…Australia's PEP sweetens loan terms as leveraged credit tightensEven top-tier sponsors are paying up in today's credit markets. Pacific Equity Partners, Australia's A$19 billion private equity giant, had to enhance pricing and protections on two portfolio compa…oOh!Media draws rival $554m bid from I SquaredInfrastructure investor I Squared Capital has trumped Pacific Equity Partners with a $1.45 per share offer for the Australian out-of-home advertising company, valuing it at A$766 million versus PEP…Google courts Blackstone and KKR for portfolio-wide AI dealsGoogle is negotiating omnibus agreements with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to distribute AI models across their portfolio companies, turning private equity into the most powerful distribution channel f…Private equity pitches AI as saviour for pandemic-era software betsMajor PE firms used the Milken Institute conference to position AI as the solution to overvalued software investments made during the 2020-2022 remote-work boom, with Ares, Blackstone, and Blue Owl…Founders Fund writes $1bn check to double down on AndurilThe defense tech company raised $2.5 billion at a $30.5 billion valuation, with Peter Thiel's firm leading the round in its largest-ever single investment. Anduril's 2024 revenue hit $1 billion, do…EQT raises €3.1bn European real estate fund despite sector funding droughtStockholm-based EQT closed its latest European real estate fund above target while competitors struggle to raise capital in a high-rate environment. The €3.1 billion raise builds on EQT's acquisiti…EQT closes record $15.6bn Asia private equity fundSwedish private equity giant EQT raised $15.6 billion for its Asia fund, the largest regional PE vehicle on record. The fund targets mid-market buyouts across Southeast Asia and India, betting on c…Ping An offloads $1bn in software PE assets in sixth saleChina's largest insurer is clearly rethinking its private equity strategy. Ping An Insurance Group is exploring the sale of roughly $1 billion in software-focused private equity assets — marking at…Organic juice maker Suja files for IPO targeting $1bn valuationThe wellness IPO pipeline just got another player. Suja Life, the cold-pressed juice company, filed for a public offering after posting 26% sales growth, with sources pegging its valuation near $1 …Dallas Stars CEO predicts private equity sports takeoverPrivate equity is coming for professional sports, and the Dallas Stars' Brad Alberts sees it clearly. The CEO, who transformed the franchise from 'cash-strapped' to 45 consecutive sellouts, expects…