John R Fischer

Private equity bets on parking.

Potential deal by Clayton Dubilier & Rice for a leading consumer healthcare business; Arlington Capital Partners’ Matthew Altman about the effects of onshoring on healthcare supply chain investments; a rundown of four sporting equipment deals; a deal by Thirty-5 Capital around pickleball footwear.

'We continue to see an attractive landscape of actionable add-on opportunities that can assist larger platforms in expanding.'

Five deals in a growing subsector of dermatological care: medspas; an interview with RF Investment Partners’ Collin Abert on the firm’s add-on plans for its first investments in the pet and veterinary sector; a digital platform launch by a funeral services provider backed by Colpatria Capital and Access Holdings.

BC Partners, VSS Capital, DuneGlass Capital and Freeman Spogli are among the PE firms investing in the medspa sector.

RF expects the increasing number of pet products and medical services, including in pharma, to stimulate PE investments.

'We want like-minded, growth mindset, entrepreneurial type owners to join Aviva because those are the ones that create disproportionately high organic growth rates,' says DuneGlass's Daniel Hosler.

OceanSound expects Par Excellence to become an active consolidator in hospital inventory management.

General Atlantic, Amulet Capital Partners and InTandem Capital Partners are among the PE firms investing in the fertility space.

Partners Group, Olympus Partners, Webster Equity Partners and Blue Sea Capital have all invested in ophthalmology over the last couple of years.