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Last updated: September 15, 2026, 6:23 AM ET

Private Equity Deal Flow Accelerates Across Industrial, Healthcare, and Technology Sectors

KPS Capital Partners has agreed to sell Metra, an Italian manufacturer of extruded aluminum profiles, to Poland's Grupa Kęty for €645m. Metra, headquartered in Rodengo Saiano, operates nine manufacturing facilities and employs approximately 1,400 people across its production network. The transaction marks one of the larger European industrial carve-outs announced this week.

Industrial and Building Services Consolidation

Inflexion-backed Ranger Fire and Security has acquired Fire Protection Ireland, a Cavan-based provider of fire alarm, CCTV, fire training and intruder alarm services founded in 2011. The deal expands Ranger's footprint across the Irish public and private sectors. Kohlberg-backed Loenbro has purchased Prism Electric, a Texas- and Oklahoma-based electrical contractor with roughly 2,500 employees serving data center, healthcare, industrial and commercial customers, in what Loenbro described as its largest acquisition to date. Prism was founded in 1994 by Blake Combs.

HIG Capital has combined Action Elevator and All City Elevator into Ever Rise Lift Group, headquartered in Millersville, Maryland, providing elevator maintenance, repair, modernization and installation services to commercial, residential and institutional customers. Bertram Capital has invested in Starc Systems, a Maine-founded maker of reusable temporary containment systems for healthcare, airport and data center construction projects that shipped its first product in 2014. First Reserve-backed Trillium has agreed to sell its US pumps unit to Crane for $240m; the business, marketed under the Floway, Wemco, Roto-Jet and WSP brands, supplies mission-critical pumping solutions primarily to municipal water and wastewater markets.

Healthcare and Life Sciences Transactions

Arsenal Capital-backed Endpoint Clinical has added Bluefin, a Boston-based provider of clinical supply forecasting and planning technology that helps sponsors and CROs manage demand, distribution and supply risk across the trial lifecycle. Step Stone has led a continuation vehicle backing Amulet's US Fertility growth; the company describes itself as the nation's largest partnership of physician-owned and physician-led fertility practices and IVF laboratories and has helped more than 400,000 individuals. Thompson Street-backed Allyant has expanded its accessibility footprint with the acquisition of Braille Works, founded in 1994 by Joyce and Lou Fioritto, which has spent more than three decades helping organizations make information accessible for people who are blind or have low vision.

Technology, Software, and Communications

Ambienta's Spaggiari has acquired ESDS, a provider of digital management-information-system software to more than 3,000 schools and 1.5m students across Iberia and Latin America, founded in 2007. The deal extends Spaggiari's reach into two new geographic markets. Nex Phase Capital has made a growth investment in Everywhere Communications, an Annapolis, Maryland-based company founded in 2016 that provides a mission-critical software platform helping government and enterprise clients maintain resilient communications. New Mountain Capital has taken a minority stake in Appleby, the Bermuda-founded legal platform established by Major Reginald Appleby in the 1890s, which employs more than 500 people and over 200 attorneys across 11 offices in eight jurisdictions.

Consumer Brands and Carve-Outs

Aurelius has agreed to buy Hain Celestial's international business for $323m, a portfolio that includes brands such as Ella's Kitchen, Joya, Natumi, Hartley's, Linda McCartney, Cully & Sully, Yorkshire Provender and New Covent Garden. In a parallel disclosure, Aurelius has carved out Hain International, the UK and European arm of Nasdaq-listed The Hain Celestial Group, in a cross-border transaction with an enterprise value exceeding €280m. Carolwood has agreed to acquire Thryv's print business for $142m, encompassing Print Yellow and White Pages operations in the US, Australia and New Zealand, along with their digital editions and Australia's White Pages online.

Real Assets, Insurance, and Infrastructure

KKR has committed €528m to take a 49% stake in a new euro-denominated joint venture holding a portfolio of European net lease real estate, backing Realty Income's European expansion. Brookfield Asset Management has agreed to acquire a minority interest in American Real Estate Partners, a US institutional fund manager and data centre developer, in a bet on AI-driven infrastructure demand. CVC is preparing to cash in part of its stake in Bamboo Insurance Services, the US homeowners insurer it took control of just last year, through an IPO valuing the company at up to $3.13bn. An investor consortium led by DFO Management, the family office of tech billionaire Michael Dell, is closing in on a $7.7bn take-private of insurance broker The Baldwin Group, according to the FT.

Fundraising, Exits, and Market Sentiment

Warburg Pincus is nearing its flagship target, while CVC looks to match its record-breaking fundraise and an LP bets on private equity's distribution drought, according to Side Letter. KKR has exited its entire stake in First Gen, one of the Philippines' largest power producers, for $411m, walking away just weeks after its bid to take the company private was rejected. Max de Groen, partner and co-head of Technology, North America Private Equity at Bain Capital, expects deal activity to pick up over the next year as his firm navigates AI-driven disruption in software; separately, Genstar Capital and Aksia have made a growth investment in Richey May, a Denver-based accounting, tax and advisory firm operating for more than 40 years and serving clients nationwide from offices across eight states.

Leadership Appointments and Talent Moves

Hunter Point Capital has appointed William Sonneborn as president and chief operating officer; Sonneborn joins with more than three decades of experience in alternative investments and financial services, including leadership roles at KKR, TCW Group, EIG and Goldman Sachs. Permira has named former Microsoft executive Julia Liuson as a senior adviser; she previously served as president of Microsoft's Developer Division, leading its global developer business including GitHub, Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. Navi Med Capital has named Holly Atallah as CFO, bringing 25 years of corporate finance and investment banking experience, most recently as director of finance and operations at Broad Oak Capital Partners, and promoted Bennett Mears to principal. Vance Street Capital has appointed Katherine Dowley as head of investor relations; she joins from W Capital Partners and has previously worked at L Catterton and Lindsay Goldberg.

Venture Capital and Growth Investing

Lovable, Supercell and Langdock founders have backed Zero in a $10.3m seed round for its AI CRM tools. Satellite startup Open Cosmos has raised €300m amid a broader space investing frenzy. ETH Zurich students have built what they describe as the first Swiss humanoid robot and are eyeing a fundraising round. Y Combinator remained the busiest startup investor in August, according to Crunchbase rankings, while Nvidia ramped up its dealmaking pace across lead backers, prolific venture dealmakers, highest spenders and seed investors.

Regulation, Risk, and Governance

Revolut is facing questions over a data breach that has been described as deeply concerning, raising fresh scrutiny over customer data protections at the fintech. AI agents are moving faster than Europe can regulate, experts warn, underscoring the widening gap between deployment and rulemaking. The top 10 investors across DACH and CEE have been ranked in a new Sifted analysis of the region's most active startup backers. On the cap table front, the standard four-year founder vesting schedule can leave departed founders with large equity stakes, complicating financing and control and prompting costly litigation aimed at reclaiming shares.

Industry Perspectives and Events

At the heart of every successful sale is a seller that truly understands the buyer, according to a new podcast discussion on keeping the buyer's point of view front and center from the initial due diligence stage. Disruption Matters has returned for its fifth season, with a six-part podcast miniseries unpacking the playbook industry leaders are using to navigate headwinds facing private markets exits. Founders building AI companies are being asked what happens when OpenAI ships their roadmap, a question at the center of an interactive session at Tech Crunch Disrupt 2026. Exhibitors have five days left to apply for an exhibit table at Tech Crunch Disrupt 2026, with the Expo Hall floor set to put businesses in front of more than 10,000 founders and investors.