Mary Kathleen Flynn
Consortium Brand Partners' co-founder discusses firm's acquisition of Reese Witherspoon's clothing line Draper James.
Hello dealmakers. MK Flynn here with the Wire. It’s a tough morning, as we remember those lost in the US on this day 22 years ago, as well as those lost in Morocco over the weekend. We’ll take a moment to acknowledge those losses and then move onto private equity deal news of the day. […]
Thoma Bravo is acquiring NextGen for $1.8 billion.
Deal-making did not abate this summer for various PE firms.
Commercial landscaping services firm BrightView snags $500 million from One Rock.
PSG Equity recently invested in AppHub, an e-commerce software developer, and made an add-on acquisition of Boost.
'All-in-all, for those with dry powder, we believe it is an excellent time to be deploying middle market private capital.'
Blackstone’s Martin Brand weighs in on high-quality assets, generative AI and recession resistance
Blackstone's Brand holds forth on a number of issues.
'For our acquisition of Cvent, we used the market dislocation in the SPAC market to source one of the lowest revenue multiple, high growth software deals in recent years.'
A Deep Dive into GTCR’s $1.6 billion carveout from ADT; an H2 Outlook Q&A with Battery Ventures’ Zak Ewen; and a sentiment survey of private equity and investment banking folks.