Why Private Equity Is Suddenly Awash With Zombie Firms

Hundreds of private equity firms are drowning in a sea of competition, searching for lifeboats of new capital as they cling ...
Opinion
The American ProspectOpinion

Private Equity Saks Another Retail Outlet

Saks Fifth Avenue, the iconic luxury retailer, went into bankruptcy last Thursday. To read most of the press coverage, you’d think that it was just the latest casualty in a long line of failed ...
Becker's ASC

Private equity’s healthcare strategy has shifted — these 5 deals explain why

Private equity remains active in healthcare, including in the ASC ecosystem, but the strategy is shifting. Rather than building standalone ASC platforms, firms are increasingly pairing ASC investments ...

How Commercial Due Diligence Is Changing—And What It Means For Private Equity

Despite major advances across the broader dealmaking landscape, commercial due diligence has evolved more slowly.
Opinion

Private equity is fundamentally changing: What now for investors and business owners?

For 40 years, private equity enjoyed extraordinary returns thanks to falling rates and abundant credit. That's changed. What should PE firms and clients do now?

Private Equity Moves Beyond General AI as Firms Shift to Workflow-Driven Tools

Private equity firms have not hesitated to experiment with AI. Over the past two years, teams across deals, operations, and ...
Wealth Management

BlackRock, Partners Group Launch SMAs with Multiple Private Market Assets

BlackRock and Partners Group debut three private market SMAs for wealth clients through Morgan Stanley platform ...
Law

Can Private Equity Finally Crack Europe’s Legal Market? Sweden's AGRD’s Model Puts It to the Test

AGRD Partners is leveraging Sweden’s relaxed legal framework to launch its bold, private equity-backed legal venture later this year, with ambitious plans for European expansion—but whether the rest ...
JD Supra

Seeded Sponsors: A Middle Ground Between the Bootstrapped Independent Sponsor and Committed Fund

Over the past 15 years, the meaning of the term "sponsor" in the private equity context has evolved to include several alternatives to the standard committed private equity fund model. These ...
Law

Opportunity, Not Distress: Private Equity's Plans For Big Law

Recent reports of a variety of law firms engaging in discussions with private equity investors have spawned speculation about the firms’ motivations for such discussions with unseasoned observers ...
MM&M

Inside private equity’s growing interest in medical marketing agencies

As the ad agency model struggles to evolve to meet client demands and navigate AI’s impact, ad agencies have been searching for partners to help themselves scale, thrive or in some cases just survive.
Willamette Week

As Oregon Mulls Private Equity Hospice Merger, Lawmakers Hear of Grim Financial Logic

Hospice is a realm of medicine concerned not with curing patients, but helping them end their lives with comfort, meaning and dignity. But, with a major transaction under consideration, Oregon ...