Download PitchBook’s Report here. Revenue multiples saw a much more aggressive run-up to the peak reached in 2021 and a much faster descent thereafter. In Q1 2024, we saw initial signs of distressed selling and capitulation…. Login to Read More...
Download PitchBook’s Report here. Worldwide, PE-backed exits remain sluggish midway through 2024. Pacing is difficult to assess with any exactitude, but should the first-half tallies of the year repeat, essentially 2024 would see the fewest exits since 2015, and the lowest exit value since 2013…. Login to Read More...
Download PitchBook’s Report here. The share of carveouts in the deal landscape surged in Q1, representing 15.5% of the overall deal mix—the highest level since Q2 2013…. Login to Read More...
Download PitchBook’s Report here. PE middle-market valuations reached their apex in 2021 and have declined sharply since. Closing out 2023, deal multiples in the middle market had declined by somewhere between 25.0% to 40.6% from their peak, depending on the yardstick used (EBITDA or revenue), and unlike the overall M&A market, there were no signs of…
Download PitchBook’s Report here. In PitchBook’s 2024 US Private Equity Outlook, we forecast this would be the year that continuation funds hit critical mass and would reach 100 or more exits of this nature…. Login to Read More...
Download PitchBook’s Report here. Who doesn’t like low-cost debt? For some borrowers, including many private equity-owned companies, the question is more complicated…. Login to Read More...
Download PitchBook’s Report here. Private credit continues to dominate the number of buyout financings while lending from public business development companies (BDCs) suggests direct lending may have bottomed in H2 2023, but competition is increasing, leading to private lenders having to lower their prices to secure deals…. Login to Read More...
Download PitchBook’s Report here. Within PE subcategories, we expect buyout funds to continue to garner the bulk of fundraising in the coming years, but growth funds have seen increasing LP interest and offer an alternative to the VC asset class…. Login to Read More...
Download PitchBook’s Report here. PE healthcare services investing continued to stagnate in Q1 2024. PE sponsors announced or closed an estimated 158 deals in the quarter, a downward trend even from 2023’s sluggish pace…. Login to Read More...
Download PitchBook’s Report here. It was another stellar quarter for floating-rate loans to private company borrowers, which represent the bulk of private debt fund holdings. A good proxy for how these loans performed, the US Morningstar LSTA Index gained 2.5% in Q1 2024…. Login to Read More...