Published: August 20, 2026 | Category: Deals & M&A Silver Lake is negotiating a takeover of Workday that could value the human resources and finance software maker at more than $50 billion, a deal that would rank among the largest software buyouts on record. Shares in the Pleasanton, California company jumped nearly 18 percent to…
Published: August 13, 2026 | Category: Markets & Compensation Wall Street’s equity traders and dealmakers are heading into 2026 bonus season with the fattest checks in years. Compensation consultant Johnson Associates projects equity sales and trading bonuses will rise 20% to 30% or more, with advisory bankers up 15% to 20%, in a year the…
Published: August 12, 2026 | Category: Venture Capital The autonomous-mining startup, now valued at $1.5 billion, is betting that AI-driven demand for copper and lithium can be met by software rather than by digging more mines the old way. Mariana Minerals has raised $310 million in a Series B round led by Khosla Ventures, bringing…
Published: August 5, 2026 | Category: IPOs / Consumer Sandwich chain’s Wall Street debut values it at $7.3bn, roughly 18 months after Blackstone paid about $8bn for control. Jersey Mike’s Subs and its private equity backer Blackstone raised $1 billion in an initial public offering priced at $23 a share — the midpoint of a…
Published: July 30, 2026 | Category: Private Equity / Infrastructure Consortium takes 49% stake in state oil pipeline network in largest foreign investment in Gulf state’s history, as Iranian strikes on energy sites continue. Blackstone, Brookfield and KKR have agreed to pay $16 billion for a leasehold stake in Kuwait’s crude oil pipeline network, in…
Published: July 27, 2026 | Category: Private Equity / Markets Private equity dealmaking cooled on both entry and exit in the second quarter, according to a preliminary read of the data from PitchBook. The firm says the megadeal frenzy of recent quarters has “slowed to a crawl”, while year-to-date exits are pacing roughly in line…
Published: July 16, 2026 | Category: Venture Capital, Private Equity & M&A Three storylines dominated this week’s capital markets activity: AI coding tools commanding startup valuations that rival mid-cap public companies, private equity pushing deeper into specialty consumer and compliance niches, and a European takeover fight where the target’s own board is telling shareholders to…
Published: July 15, 2026 | Category: Private Capital / Deals Digital infrastructure set the tone for a crowded week of dealmaking. Switch, the SoftBank and DigitalBridge-backed data-centre operator based in Las Vegas, is in talks to raise about $2 billion at a $50 billion valuation in a round involving Andreessen Horowitz. Germany’s Quantum Systems, a…
Published: July 15, 2026 | Category: Asset Management / Private Equity / Mergers & Acquisitions Venture capital firms buy startups. Pension funds buy stable, cash-generative businesses. This week they teamed up to buy something that is neither: a 90-year-old, Seattle-based asset manager with $416 billion under management — and the price tag says as much…
Published: July 12, 2026 | Category: Markets / Venture Capital & Private Equity Jeff Bezos is opening Blue Origin’s doors to outside money for the first time, and the price of admission values his rocket company at $130 billion — a fraction of what his chief rival just fetched on the public market, but a…
Published: July 10, 2026 | Category: Venture Capital & Enterprise Software Trends | Focus: AppSec Asset Consolidation, Sovereign AI Capital Infrastructure, and Fintech Liquidity Tracking The final trading day of the first half of 2026 has delivered a massive wave of activity across the venture capital landscape, highlighted by Belgian cybersecurity unicorn Aikido Security completing…
Published: July 10, 2026 | Category: Venture Capital / Markets American startups raised more money in the first six months of 2026 than investors committed in any full calendar year on record — and the vast majority of it went to a small circle of companies and firms already sitting on the most capital. U.S.…
Published: July 10, 2026 | Category: Macro Investment Banking & Deal Flow Analysis | Focus: M&A Super-Cycles, IPO Windows, and Alternative Data Funding Flows The mid-point of 2026 has delivered a sweeping, unmistakable message to global capital markets: the structural corporate freeze that paralyzed deal-making for the past twenty-four months has permanently thawed. According to…
Published: July 5, 2026 | Category: Digital Infrastructure & Real Estate Private Equity | Focus: Capital Recycling Dynamics, Hyperscale Tenant Lease Analysis, and Core FFO Accretion Blackstone has finalized a definitive agreement to monetize its equity stakes in three premium Northern Virginia hyperscale data centers, selling the portfolio to publicly traded Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:…
Vintage: July 28, 2026 | Market Pricing: Deal data as of late June 2026 | Reporting Currency: Mixed (USD/EUR/JPY) Executive Summary The global transaction markets in late June 2026 are experiencing an unprecedented structural divergence. On one side, public equity markets are seeing a major influx of liquidity, highlighted by a record-breaking Q2 U.S. IPO…
Vintage: July 7, 2026 | Market Pricing: Institutional data through Q2 2026 | Reporting Currency: US Dollar (USD) Executive Summary The optimistic consensus that 2026 would serve as a cyclical turnaround year for global private equity (PE) has hit a significant roadblock. According to PitchBook’s Q2 2026 Global PE First Look report, the anticipated dealmaking…
Swedish buyout firm EQT is taking British testing-and-certification giant Intertek private — a wager that the quiet business of verifying quality is worth billions.
One of private equity’s biggest names just walked away from a software company it bought for $6.4 billion — a stark lesson in how debt-fuelled buyouts can unravel.