Will secondary buyouts bounce back?

Secondary buyouts (SBOs) were once deemed a bubble market phenomenon. Hefty price tags were made possible by an abundance of inexpensive debt, and buyout houses were even accused of horse trading when they needed to boost exits ahead of fundraising. This year, however, secondary transactions plummeted, as shown in the graphs below sourced from unquote" data. In the UK there have been signs of the deal type making a comeback, albeit for very different reasons. We investigate the latest developments in the Nordic secondary buyout market on page 22.

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