NVPE Editorial

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Operating Partner vs Turnaround Firm: When a PE-Backed Company Needs Which

Both promise to fix a portfolio company, but they answer different questions. If the business needs to grow, you want an operating partner. If it needs to stop bleeding, you want a turnaround firm.

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The Eight-Year Hold: Private Equity's $4 Trillion Backlog Is Now an Operating Problem

The deal was underwritten for five years. The company is still here in year eight. Almost nobody planned for the difference.

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Every PE conference is the same conversation in a different hotel.

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PE is full of buyers pretending to be builders.

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Reference calls kill deals more quietly than diligence ever will.

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The home services arbitrage is still alive.

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"Proprietary deal flow" often means the banker started with you for a reason.

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Five firms. Five strategies. One trillion-dollar identity crisis.

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Lifestyle (w/e 6/5/26)

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News (w/e 6/5/26)

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Deals (w/e 6/5/26)

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PE says it wants operators. The incentives say otherwise.