Slow but steady

From one month to another, deal figures remain surprisingly similar. Each issue brings its fair share of large deals involving pan-European funds showing interest in Dutch, Belgian or Luxembourg-based companies. They will be highly publicised by, and analysed in, the financial press. Besides these high profile transactions, local private equity houses continue to generate a handful of deals each month: PPM Oost, Private Plus and NPM to name just a few. These transactions are likely to be in the small and mid-market segments and are valuable because they are most likely to create value through hands-on investing. Supplying the regular but less publicised stream of the private equity market, they support the dynamism of the industry in the region