Up and out
The market is picking up at last. After a sombre year in which deal values plummeted quarter on quarter, reaching a deep trough in January, they recorded their first quarterly uptick in the second quarter. This is cause for optimism - vendors of sound businesses are finally coming forward, and with price expectations that are at last converging with buyers'. Equally important, banks have gradually resumed lending, backing select buyouts with reasonable levels of debt
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Stonehage Fleming raises USD 130m for largest fund to date, eyes 2024 programme
Multi-family office has seen strong appetite, with investor base growing since 2016 to more than 90 family offices, Meiping Yap told Unquote
Permira to take Ergomed private for GBP 703m
Sponsor deploys Permira VIII to ride new wave of take-privates; Blackstone commits GBP 200m in financing for UK-based CRO
Partners Group to release IMs for Civica sale in mid-September
Sponsor acquired the public software group in July 2017 via the same-year vintage Partners Group Global Value 2017
Change of mind: Sponsors take to de-listing their own assets
EQT and Cinven seen as bellweather for funds to reassess options for listed assets trading underwater