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.
The trending private equity investment sectors for January 2021 are highlighted below with a few example transactions.
As we reported in our year-end review: Top 10 Industries for PE Platform Investments in 2020, Software was the #1 industry of interest for private equity firms in 2020, as a percentage of all PE platform acquisitions.
The graphs below show the steep increase in private equity acquisitions in both Software and SaaS companies.
While private equity firms acquired considerably fewer companies in 2020, PE investments in healthcare, as a percentage of total PE platform acquisitions, increased significantly in 2020, now pushing 9% of total PE platform acquisitions.
The trending private equity investment sectors for December 2020 are highlighted below with a few example transactions.
Private equity firms are increasingly interested in scalable companies with lower CapEx requirements. Consequently, private equity acquisitions of manufacturing companies has steadily declined as a percentage of the total number of private equity platform investments.
We used our database of private equity portfolio company transactions to determine the most active law firms advising private equity transactions in 2020….
We reviewed our private equity database for 2020 platform acquisitions to determine the top investment banking firms closing deals with private equity acquirers. Here are the top 10, ranked by number of deals that were PE platform acquisitions…
We reviewed all private equity platform investments in 2020 and ranked them by industry. The following Top 10 industries represent nearly a third of all private equity platform deals in 2020:
TOP 10 INDUSTRIES
The trending private equity investment sectors for November 2020 are highlighted below with a few example transactions.
Industry Trends Report
