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As of late December, PE buyout volume had reached almost $384 billion, the highest since the PE boom before the financial crisis.
As of late December, private equity buyout volume had reached almost $384 billion, the highest since the PE boom before the financial crisis.
Still Europe has fared much better than the U.S.: Its buyout volume so far this year accounted for roughly half of all global activity, versus 25% in the same period of 2007--a 2007--a 2007--ato benefit fundstatisticA Private Equity.
Still Europe has fared much better than the U.S.: Its buyout volume so far this year accounted for roughly half of all global activity, versus 25% in the same period of 2007 a statistic sure to benefit funds like AXA Private Equity.
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Data from the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association indicate that while buyout exit volume (but not numbers) recovered from the crisis, VC exits remain flat since 2008, with many investments still being written off.
The quick recovery of buyout and acquisition volume supports the argument that private equity-financed companies (in particular, buyout investments) might be more resilient to crises because they must respond earlier to an unfavorable economic climate due to their higher debt burdens (Lerner, 2011).
In the United States, the transaction brings the total volume of buyouts to $42.2 billion, the most since 2007 and up from just $2.7 billion in the same period a year ago, according to Thomson Reuters.
And it may become harder for firms to cash out of their investments by taking them public; given the current high volume of buyouts, the number of large IPOs could strain the stock markets' ability to absorb new issues in a few years.
BLOOMBERG NEWS In Middle East, Hopes of a Buyout Revival | While the volume of mergers and acquisitions in the Middle East fell last year, a large private equity deal provides hope that buyout firms are preparing to make more deals in the region, Reuters reports.
According to Dealogic, the volume of leveraged buyouts for the first quarter dropped 65percenttoto $63.7 billion from the same time a year ago.
So well has Wall Street learned its lesson that since 1979, the dollar volume of leveraged buyouts has grown nearly fortyfold, to $23 billion for the first half of 1988, according to W.T. Grimm & Co.
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