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Bernhard Capital Partners, a services and infrastructure-focused private equity firm, through its Department of Energy services platform, has acquired Strategic Management Solutions LLC, a provider of management and technical consulting services for federal and large industrial clients focused on nuclear programs and projects. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Albuquerque, N.M., #ConsultingServices #governmentservices #Nuclearenergy

Volition Capital, a private equity firm, has added Pete Lamson as chief operating officer and head of portfolio operations. Lamson brings over 35 years of leadership experience. Prior to joining Volition Capital, Lamson served as CEO of Employ, where he led a private equity-backed roll-up of four businesses in the HRTech space – including JazzHR, a company backed by Volition Capital, where #People #Privateequity

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) will invest $1.5 billion in the United Arab Emirates’ top artificial intelligence firm, G42, after the Abu Dhabi-based company worked out an unusual deal with the U.S. government to end any cooperation with China. The agreement follows behind-the-scenes negotiations between the U.S. #AI #SoftwareServices

Sunstone Partners, a private equity firm focused on tech-enabled services and software companies, has made an investment in Accuhealth. Accuhealth is a healthcare technology company offering remote patient monitoring (RPM) and chronic care management (CCM) services encompassing hardware, proprietary software and clinical monitoring to physician practices and health systems throughout the U.S. #chroniccaremanagement #Remotepatientmonitoringservices

The Justice Department may file an antitrust complaint as soon as next month aimed at forcing Live Nation Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: LYV) to spin off its Ticketmaster ticketing business, according to three people familiar with the matter. #Antitrust #ECommerce #TicketServices

Wynnchurch Capital LP, a private equity firm headquartered in Rosemont, Ill., has purchased Handgards LLC from Wind Point Partners. Headquartered in El Paso, Texas, Handgards is a distributor of food service products, including disposable gloves, reclosable bags, tabletop items, expendables and other carryout products. #DisposableSupplies #FoodServiceProducts

Nova Clean Energy, a portfolio company of Bluestar Energy Capital, has bought HyFuels, an over 1 gigawatt portfolio of mid-to-late-stage wind and solar development projects as well as an earlier-stage green ammonia project. Located on the Texas Gulf Coast, an area of increasing power demand and a center for American-produced ammonia, HyFuels is situated to serve the petrochemical industry. #PowerGeneration #SolarEnergy #Windenergy

Blackstone (NYSE: BX) Chief Executive Officer Steve Schwarzman said the artificial intelligence boom is threatening to overload power grids in the industrials sector as more and more data centers are built. There’s a “land rush” underway to build centers that provide the infrastructure for AI, Schwarzman said at the Asia Pacific Financial and Innovation Symposium in Melbourne. #AI #Regulations