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Conference season reveals the best version of every PE firm.
The Best Private Equity Conferences for Operating Partners (2026 to 2027): Ranked by Who Is Actually in the Room
Every conference list is a calendar. This one tells you which rooms are full of operators, which are full of the people selling to them, and which three are worth the flight.
What Is a Quality of Earnings (QoE) Report? The Operator's and Seller's Guide to What Happens to Your Numbers
A QoE report rebuilds EBITDA line by line and sets the price. Written for the management team and the seller who live through it, not the firm that sells it.
The Best Books for Private Equity Operating Partners (2026): What Operators Actually Read, and What They Skip
The best books for PE operating partners, grouped by the job each one does, from capital allocation to running the company. Plus the shelf to skip.
KKR's £5.75 billion DCC takeover passed with three points to spare.
The scheme needed 75% and got 78%. The loudest rebels had already sold to the arbs, and arbs vote yes.
Advent sold InPost at €16. It is buying it back at €15.60.
Advent floated InPost at €16 in 2021. On Friday 89.81 per cent of shareholders accepted €15.60 from a consortium Advent leads. The business quadrupled. The share price went round in a circle.
The 'Private Equity Practice': 12 Marketing Agencies Now Sell a PE Vertical. Here's What's Actually on the Page (2026)
Fifteen agencies, twelve PE vertical pages, two products under one label, and zero pages that say who owns the ad accounts at the end.
The Overlooked Portfolio-Wide Margin Lever Hiding in Indirect Services
Chelsea's owners put in £2.9 billion. The exit values it at £3.7 billion.
Boehly and Walter leave Chelsea at roughly a gilt yield, and the only buyer permitted to pay was the one already holding 61.5%. The record deal of 2022 has become the record price of 2026.
Brookfield's opening bid for Reliance was the 2018 rights issue price, to the cent.
Four bids, five months, A$4.75. Reliance spent eight years and A$1.22 billion becoming the company Brookfield now buys for the 2018 rights price plus 14%.
Baldwin's 88% premium is mostly a measure of how far it fell.
Sequence Holdings and Michael Dell's family office are paying $32.50 a share, 20 times adjusted EBITDA, for a broker growing 2% organically. The premium looks big because the fall was bigger.
