Full coverage: Private equity

Private equity is pumping huge sums of money into the creation of autonomous killing machines which have no human intervention whatsoever. The practice is raising ethical questions but as long as the profits are there it will continue.

A British private equity group is in pole position to buy the North's biggest hospital group, which also has a hospital in Sligo, for £300 million. The deal attracted interest from as far away as New Zealand as well as from bidders closer to home.

The Beacon Hospital is performing strongly. It is being sold to an Australian bank after months of talks, at a big profit to Denis O'Brien.

Since 2020, private equity firm Livingbridge has invested €90 million in a range of Irish deals. Its portfolio employs over 650 people and it wants to do at least one deal here a year.

The private equity-owned hotel portfolio Tifco is up for sale. Its core business is booming. The only challenge is the debt used to fund it.

Nick Corcoran grew up in Dublin’s inner city and his first job was selling vegetables from a van in Ballymun. Today, along with his business partner Nigel McDermott, he runs Cardinal Capital, a pioneer in the Irish alternative financing sector.

There's a pattern with private equity: at first when it arrives in a country the returns are great, but they seem to fall over time. What does this say about capitalism?

For a long time, I have been trying to simply and succinctly underline the role that private equity and large institutional funds play in our day-to-day lives. “Our Lives In Their Portfolios” is possibly the most beautiful way of describing something that has the potential to be so nefarious.

The Currency and Pinsent Masons brought together dealmakers and business owners to talk about the outlook for private equity in Ireland this year.

Kim Kardashian’s fine tells me that the SEC is acutely aware of her ability to move markets in the direction of her choice. This is why her arrival into the world of private equity is so scary for finance bros all over the world.