Private Equity 24 Hours

Last updated: August 7, 2026, 11:43 PM ET

Mega-Deals & Fundraising

Carlyle has agreed to acquire a minority stake in Prime Capital Financial from Abry Partners, exiting a wealth platform with $50bn in AUM. In another landmark transaction, Pantheon is buying a $523m slab of BlackRock TCP Capital's private credit book via a BDC continuation vehicle. The week's ten biggest funding rounds included three startups raising $1bn or more, underscoring sustained investor appetite.

Healthcare & Workforce Services

Private equity firms are driving tech investments in clinical workforce services. Eir Partners backed Claims Bridge and supported its add-on of Dialysis PPO, while Accel-KKR, Bain and Knox Lane are among firms targeting the sector. A broader review of eight PE deals highlights the push for technology in healthcare staffing. Separately, Wise Equity signed an agreement to acquire E-Pharma Trento, which may pursue bolt-on acquisitions to enhance manufacturing capacity. Nordic Capital also inked a radiopharmaceuticals deal — note: this article already linked above, but we need to link each URL exactly once. The radiopharma deal is in article6; we already linked that URL for Accel-KKR part. We must not duplicate. Instead, use the specific deal mention from article6 elsewhere? Actually article6 covers both clinical workforce and radiopharma. We linked it for Accel-KKR. To avoid repeat, we can't use it again. So for Nordic Capital, we need a separate article? There is no separate article for Nordic Capital's radiopharma deal. The only mention is in article6, already used. We'll skip mentioning Nordic Capital here to avoid duplication. Instead, we can note that E-Pharma is a healthcare services acquisition.

European Private Equity

Bernard Arnault has installed Aymeric Le Clere as CEO of Financière Agache, the €3.1bn holding vehicle for LVMH control. 'Bear hugs' are on the rise in UK take-privates, with Apollo and EasyJet reportedly agreeing a £5.7bn takeover. Meanwhile, Allianz reported record Q2 operating profit, driven by €39bn of net inflows at its asset management arm, pushing third-party AuM to €2.16tn.

Venture Capital & Startups

Active startup investors kept up the pace in July, with familiar names like Khosla and YC leading deals. A16z has expanded its European scout network to 30+ scouts hunting for deals. The top junior VCs to watch in Europe have been identified by partners across the industry. Lendable is chasing a superapp dream, with its CEO saying they are "more constrained by capacity than ideas." Queen Mary University of London spinouts are looking to raise, while Pleo faces a culture crisis amid an executive exodus and sale speculation.

Infrastructure & Secondaries

The single-asset secondaries market in infrastructure is growing as both a liquidity tool and an access strategy, but discipline and entry valuations remain critical, according to Stafford's William.