The pros and cons of long-dated funds Download PitchBook Report here Private equity moves at a glacial pace. While the average shelf life of a PE fund is often assumed to be eight to ten years, many funds require considerably more time to wind down. PitchBook data shows that it takes between 11 to 14…

The upside of SBOs Secondary buyouts have been a contentious part of the PE industry for a long time. Limited partners are the most vocal about “pass-the-parcel” deals; in rare cases they are both buyer and seller of the same company (if they’re invested in both funds), but even when that’s not the case, studies…

PE Firms Compete More Avidly for Value in Healthcare After steadily climbing over the past several years, the median size of healthcare private equity buyouts across North America and Europe peaked at a remarkable $136.8 million in 2017. Growth investing, meanwhile, has stayed relatively steady throughout the same period. (It should be noted that choppiness…

PE’s massive consolidation in healthcare Download Report click here. Healthcare-related PE activity broke records last year. Both counts and value reached new highs in 2017, according to RSM’s Q1 Healthcare and Life Sciences Report, done in conjunction with PitchBook. In all, 692 transactions were done totaling $86.1 billion in North America…. Subscribe to Read MoreAlready

Carving out opportunities Download PitchBook’s 1Q 2018 M&A Report click here. Somewhat quietly, PE-led carveout acquisitions have boomed in recent years. This is a natural and sometimes overlooked consequence of M&A booms, especially today’s. Corporate buying sprees have their own logic to them, and when public companies announce plans to buy or sell certain non-core…

Buy-and-grow Download PitchBook’s 1Q 2018 US PE Middle Market Report click here. As technology continues to upend market after market, private equity has shifted its focus from the bottom line to the top line. The onus to create value, in other words, relies more on revenue growth today than it has in the past…. Subscribe

Middle market update Download PitchBook’s 1Q 2018 US PE Middle Market Report click here. Somewhat predictably, middle-market PE activity got off to a healthy start this year. About $54 billion was invested in Q1, down from a very strong Q4 2017 (almost $87 billion). First quarter numbers often decline from fourth quarter finales as investors…

Construction Delays Download PitchBook’s report click here. Last week we highlighted our recent buy-and-build research, which found, among other things, that PE hold periods are significantly impacted by add-on deals. On average, platforms with add-on acquisitions take about one year longer to exit versus bare-bones platforms. That, in turn, has helped pushed out PE holding…

Buy, build, repeat Download PitchBook’s report click here. The buy-and-build strategy has largely displaced private equity’s early playbook, which relied on financial engineering and ambitious leveraging to generate profits. To be sure, add-ons have been in PE’s playbook even before the crisis, though to a much smaller degree…. Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log

A closer look at private debt performance Download PitchBook’s report click here. As traditional PE strategies have become more crowded, the PE industry has seen a record-high expansion in private debt fundraising. Names like Thoma Bravo, BC Partners and Silver Lake have all branched out into the private debt space, following in the footsteps of…