Private Equity Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

Rolling with the punches Submitted 27/06/2023 - 1:47pm This article first appeared in the March 2023 T ech Buyouts Insights Report The tech buyout market has watched deal activity take a downward trend through Q1 2023. Indeed, tech buyouts have been hit harder than most.

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Udu

MAY 31, 2023

Between 2020 and 2021, the industry experienced a period of unprecedented growth, only to see a regression in 2022 due to delayed economic reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic – the global buyout value dropped nearly 35%. This will bring about intense competition among firms for the best deals and may lead to a seller’s market.

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The Private Equiteer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In the middle market, where every deal counts, you need to be both methodical and a bit opportunistic. Building a Healthy Deal Flow Deal flow is a term youll hear in almost every PE conversation. Referrals: Good old-fashioned word-of-mouth remains one of the best sources for deal flow.

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Axial

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The firm is currently investing out of Argonaut Private Equity Fund IV, a $400 million fund that deploys Argonaut’s strategy of making control-oriented buyout investments in companies in the industrial, manufacturing and energy services and products sectors. billion of capital deployed by the firm’s principals.

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Axial

JANUARY 23, 2025

Last year resulted in a record-breaking year for deal volume on Axial, with 10,735 deals coming to market in 2024 a 7.8% The increase happened largely in the second half of the year, with both Q3 and Q4 resulting in 26% and 15% higher deal flow than the same periods in 2023, respectively.

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Trivest Partners

JULY 11, 2023

ACP looks for businesses in the $3mm-$20mm EBITDA range, and we target majority buyout deals in industries where we have investing experience and significant relationships. “Independently Sponsored” Trivest has a long and successful track record of working and closing deals with independent sponsors.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 24, 2023

Despite the challenges buyouts firms are facing, some investors are increasing their bets on the asset class in a bid to profit from cheaper valuations. “I don’t believe that there’s a problem with the quarter lag on the valuation, it really comes down to the processes that are used [for the valuation],” she said.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Deal activity has picked up nicely since the first half of the year, driven by increased refinancings and, on acquisitions, a new buyout activity. I do think deal flow activity will pick up, and that will generate some repayment income that we haven't had for a while. So, if we could do a little bit better, we can.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As I stated in the past, we have yet to see a correlation between sales and retailer demand as evidenced by our deal flow, which in terms of square footage is 40% greater when compared to the same period last year. I guess the first question, Scott, maybe just going back to the Pacific JV buyout. Regarding holiday.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

00:45:53 [Speaker Changed] So where does your deal flow come from? But think about all the trends around buyout and, and everything in the investment universe that’s been, that’s benefited from that, that it would’ve been great to know. It sounds like very competitive space. That’s not been bad.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

Private equity at the time was only about buyout and LBO. In that case, one of the largest European insurance company, if not global, and having together a different proposal, fully aligned, with some complementary sourcing to the deal flow. Great opportunity for us. Are there some conflict of interest involved here?

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Another floating ra, another interest rate sensitive asset class or LBOs, highly levered leveraged buyouts supported by floating rate liabilities. For example, interest rate sensitive sectors that may be impacted in a more violent way because of the, of the rapid rate increase as an example. That’s an example.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

We’re going to look at a buyout and look at the pricing, look at the structure. So, you know, it got to the point where, it was exciting at first, as a deal. You had a lot of the big buyout firms, they were doing the transactions in the ‘80s, in the early ‘90s. And they were doing mid-sized deals.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Apollo Global Management announced plans for a $25bn buyout fund its largest yet signalling renewed momentum in the private equity space. Data from Bloomberg shows that buyout funds have raised more capital than any other strategy in 2024.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Carlyle, Warburg Pincus, and other major global investment firms are ramping up recruitment efforts in Japan as dealmaking accelerates, despite challenges in finding experienced professionals due to historically limited buyout activity, according to a report by Reuters.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

UK sponsor-backed financing activity experienced a modest slowdown in Q3 2024, as ongoing M&A sluggishness and seasonal dynamics impacted deal flow, according to the latest data from global investment bank, Houlihan Lokey.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 25, 2025

Private equity deal activity in Asia-Pacific is showing signs of recovery, with transaction volumes rising 11% year-on-year to $176bn in 2024, according to a report by Bloomberg citing global consultancy Bain & Co. Deal flow is expected to gain further momentum, as financial sponsors adapt to shifting market conditions.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

As I've stated in the past, we have yet to see a correlation between sales and retailer demand as evidenced by our deal flow, both in terms of number of deals and square footage when compared to the same period last year, and I'll get into this more in a moment. Traffic for the year was up almost 2% when compared to 2023.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

Private equity is the final piece of the puzzle with investments dominated by the buyout program. In September last year, after analysing performance and deal flow, Berg decided to switch to fund investing in Asia and Europe and to focus on buyouts in North America. I think we have gone through the worst.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

BXPE will leverage the firm's full breadth of investment capabilities in private equity, including buyout, secondaries, tactical opportunities, life sciences growth, and other opportunistic strategies. There may be more capital coming to the space, but I think there'll be more deal flow as well. And so that's a positive.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

But when you’re doing larger businesses, and we have clients that are pan regional, that are European, pan-European buyout players, or that are global buyout players that do global deals, US and Europe. But also it helped private equity do deals, right? Leverage buyouts requires leverage.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

How does this affect the deal flow you see in the companies you look at, do you have your own space and and that’s what you drill into? And, and we’ll even do an occasional buyout or two where we think there’s huge growth opportunities if we invest in the tech portion of it.

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