
UK Fundraising Report 2018

The 2018 edition of the UK Fundraising Report is now available to download for Unquote subscribers.
Private equity fundraising in the UK has seen a significant slowdown so far in 2018, with €25.2bn raised by 36 funds holding a final close by the end of Q3. This figure marks what looks to be the end of three consecutive years of growth in fundraising in the UK market, during which records for both the volume and value of funds raised annually were broken in each year.
The slowdown in the fundraising space is mirrored by a concurrent slowdown in buyouts, with €21.2bn in aggregate enterprise value across 166 deals logged by Unquote Data in the first three quarters of the year, down from 231 deals worth €41bn in 2017.
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