Sweden: Leading the way out of recession?

With the Swedish economy making a strong recovery after the global recession, confidence in the buyout market has been resurgent during 2010 and there are clear signs that deal flow is once again taking off. But, the playing field for buyout investors has changed considerably since the peak of the market and, with a much more conservative leverage environment and persistent doubts surrounding many key global economies, there is little chance of those heights being reached again. Viktor Lundvall investigates