France unquote" March 2012

With a whopping 51% of all buyouts being sourced from other private equity houses, according to unquote” data, 2011 clearly was the year of the SBO in France. This figure trumps the previous year’s record high of 37% – gone are the days when SBOs accounted for barely a quarter of deals, as was the case between 2001 and 2006.