Sponsor-backed restaurant deals proliferated in late May.

The largest pension in America has named a new chief for the nation?s largest private equity program.

Technology-focused buyout firm Silver Lake launched its Sumeru group in 2007 to target mid-market deals too small for the larger buyout fund, and to help the firm expand into emerging markets. Four years later, that thesis is starting to show results.

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