Comment / Tangled web under construction: Andersen, Jacobs & private equity

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A tangled web of relationships is developing between private equity (PE) and various supply chain actors – either existing or new entities or top brass ’spun-off’, call it that, from transport and logistics (T&L).

And certain key verticals, company identities and executive credentials are significantly more prominent, let alone active, than others in deal-making of whatever kind.

The current narrative – which has been very much in vogue in our circles ever since Covid began – is that PE boasts the dry ...