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NVPE Editorial
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Real progress in a portfolio company rarely looks impressive at first.
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PE returns are compressing. The industry response is more theatre.
Life
Lifestyle (w/e 7/10/26)
Menswear has quietly re-embraced the small watch. This year's fashion-week wrists in Milan and Paris were dominated by 36-39mm cases, vintage Datejusts, and dress watches on leather straps. The era of the oversized dive watch as default is over. If you bought a 44mm chronograph
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News (w/e 7/10/26)
Deals
Deals (w/e 7/10/26)
Lockheed Martin acquires Ultra Maritime from Advent for $3.45bn. Undersea and anti-submarine warfare. Advent bought it in 2022 as part of Cobham Ultra, invested $170m in product development, and is now exiting into a strategic buyer at a defence-sector premium. Revenue projected at $784m in 2026, up
Toolkit
Why Buy-and-Build Deals Fail: An Operator's Guide to Add-On Integration (2026)
The buy-and-build deck always works. A platform at 6x, three add-ons at 4.5x, blend the multiple down, grow the combined entity, exit the whole thing at 9x or 10x. On paper it is the most reliable value-creation story in the mid-market, which is why
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LPs do not need more transparency theatre. They need one honest conversation.
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Private equity secrecy does not protect excellence. It protects bad behavior.
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PE does not have a talent shortage. It has a thinking shortage.
Most CEOs aren’t lying when they say they’re data-driven.
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