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BlackRock GIP and EQT Target Clean Energy Assets from AES BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners and EQT are circling clean energy assets tied to AES at a moment when renewable valuations have reset hard. After the 2025 drop off, private equity is not retreating. It is re underwriting. The math
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Ariel Alternatives Acquires Front Line Power Construction Ariel Alternatives has acquired Front Line Power Construction, with Cherokee Nation Businesses joining as a minority co-investor. Power grid infrastructure is no longer theoretical. It’s cables, substations, and hard backlog tied to AI data centers and electrification mandates. This isn’t energy-transition
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Mubadala and TWG Take Clear Channel Outdoor Private in $6.2 Billion Deal Clear Channel Outdoor is being taken private in a $6.2 billion all-cash deal led by Mubadala Capital in partnership with TWG Global. Announced February 9, this is one of the largest leveraged buyouts of the year
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None of the following are announced deals. These are themes repeatedly showing up in recent reporting, earnings commentary, banker conversations, and capital-markets behavior. PE Circling Honeywell’s Carve-Out Pipeline There’s increasing chatter around Honeywell as it continues to rationalize its portfolio, with large-cap sponsors like Advent International and Bain
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Highlander Partners Acquires Tapatio Hot Sauce Highlander Partners acquired the Tapatio hot sauce brand from the founding family in a deal announced this past week. Price wasn’t disclosed, but the logic is pure consumer PE: a cult brand with absurd household penetration, decades of unspent brand equity, and zero
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Dallas-based private equity firm Highlander Partners acquired the Tapatio hot sauce brand a top-5 U.S. condiment with a cult following, from its founding family. The purchase price wasn’t publicly disclosed, but the strategic logic is clear: consumer food brands with deep loyalty and retail shelf presence can be
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GI Partners Agrees to Acquire Netwatch GI Partners announced this week that it has agreed to acquire Netwatch, the AI-enabled security monitoring business. Netwatch sells into retail, logistics, and commercial real estate—places where theft, liability, and insurance premiums make “doing nothing” the expensive option. This is private equity doing
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Veritas Capital Buys Majority Stake in Global Healthcare ExchangeVeritas Capital is acquiring a majority stake in Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), the healthcare supply-chain software platform used by hospitals and suppliers across the U.S. GHX sits in the unglamorous but essential plumbing of healthcare, where scale and data matter more
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GI Partners to Acquire Netwatch (AI-powered Security Services) Netwatch, the global AI-powered security services provider that’s already watching hundreds of thousands of sites worldwide, has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by GI Partners. The deal was announced Dec. 17, 2025, and while price isn’t disclosed publicly,
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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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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