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Law Firms and PE Eyes Converge on MSO Model, Carving Out Back-Office Capital Private equity and litigation funders are circling U.S. law firms’ MSO (management services organization) structures as a new frontier for capital deployment. Under the MSO model, firms carve out non-legal operations (back-office, tech, billing) into investable
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Reviving dead brands for one last round of commercial exploitation. The model is simple, seductive, and deeply cynical. A licensing group buys the intellectual property of a failed brand......just the name, trademarks, and logos. Not the stores, not the people, not the product capability. Just the shell. They then
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Decks have become the modern currency of credibility. Consultants trade them. Bankers weaponise them. Operators tolerate them. Somewhere between analysis and action, we decided that design equals depth. That if it's animated, it must be insightful. The medium became the message......and the message got lost. In consulting,
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Somewhere along the way, we made “busy” a personality trait. Ask anyone how they’ve been and the default answer is the same: “Busy.” Like it’s proof of relevance. A humblebrag wrapped in exhaustion. People wear their overcommitment like armour. Too busy to think. Too busy to prioritise. Too
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Hard decisions don’t get easier with time. They get heavier. Every leader knows the moment a difficult call presents itself. A hire who isn’t landing. A vendor who keeps missing. A product that isn’t resonating. A structure that clearly isn’t working. And yet the instinct is
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Heightened State Oversight Signals Investors to Refresh Health-Care Investment Playbooks Starting January 1, 2026, California is rolling out new laws (AB 1415 and SB 351) that significantly tighten regulation of private-equity and hedge-fund involvement in health-care transactions. The rules restrict non-clinical entities from influencing medical decision-making, expand oversight of Management
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Blackstone Takes Alexander & Baldwin Private in $2.3 Billion Deal Blackstone is taking Alexander & Baldwin private for $2.3 billion, giving public shareholders a fat premium and relieving a small-cap Hawaiian REIT from the existential boredom of quarterly reporting. A&B owns grocery-anchored retail and industrial boxes
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Every healthcare investor knows the story: the clinic looks profitable on paper, but when you lift the hood, there’s 10–15% of revenue sitting in limbo...unpaid claims, coding errors, rejected reimbursements. It’s not a demand problem. It’s a billing problem. The U.S. healthcare system processes
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It’s theirs. You’re just renting demand at a premium. Aggregators and PPL platforms exist for one reason, to own customer intent. They dominate search, intercept leads at the point of need, and sell that intent back to you. You’re buying access to your own market. It’s
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The “Value Creation Plan” (VCP) has become a kind of corporate theatre.....a glossy internal pitch deck designed to impress LPs, not to actually change how portfolio companies run. It’s full of big promises: digital transformation, pricing excellence, sales enablement. Then it disappears into the ether the moment the
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U.S. PE Exits Finally Show Real Momentum Again PitchBook data shows U.S. private equity exits are on track for a second straight year of recovery, with ~1,300 exits through October generating $621.7B. After two years of gridlock, this is the first real sign that LP liquidity
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Shore Capital Merges Reliant Healthcare & Care Fusion Rx to Launch a National Infusion-Therapy Platform Shore Capital has merged Reliant Healthcare, a home-infusion and ambulatory-infusion-center provider operating 14 centers (in Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma) plus specialty pharmacies, with Care Fusion Rx, a West-Coast specialty infusion pharmacy focused on complex biologics