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April 06, 2021 No Comments Author: Andy Jones

Private Equity Office Migrations – Covid Effect

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Covid-19 forced a tectonic shift in how we work and where we work. With more people working from home, many companies took this opportunity, while already disrupted, to relocate their corporate headquarters.

A common sentiment heard on zoom calls, “The home office approach is working better than we expected. Maybe we don’t really need an office downtown.”

“Maybe we don’t need to be in this state,” was the reply.

Consequently, some firms relocated.

Anecdotal conversations around the M&A community suggest a lot of firms left New York and moved to Florida, Texas and Colorado. But what does the data show?

We compared the headquarter locations of private equity firms in our M&A Research Database in January 2000 to March 2021. The chart below shows the migrations of private equity firms over the past 15 months, by state.

March 18, 2021 No Comments Author: Andy Jones

Private Equity Investments in Supplements Companies

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Food supplement businesses are attracting attention from private equity investors. PE firms have already made six platform investments in the supplement space in 2021.

In fact, our M&A Research Database shows 180 supplement businesses currently held as portfolio companies of private equity firms.

The “supplements” category represents a diverse range of businesses. The 180 private equity owned supplements companies include:

March 03, 2021 1 Comment Author: Andy Jones

21 Years of Private Equity Acquisitions

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I thought it would be interesting to look at the trends in private equity platform acquisitions year-by-year, since 2000. The graphs below represent 47,394 private equity platform acquisitions over the last 21 years.

We can clearly see the dip in new acquisitions during the dot.com bust (2001 – 2003), the last recession (2009), the skittishness of 2019 (Q4 mostly), and the pandemic of 2020.