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…

The trending private equity investment sectors for November 2020 are highlighted below with a few example transactions.

The trending private equity investment sectors for October 2020 are highlighted below with a few example transactions.

The trending private equity investment sectors for September 2020 are highlighted below with a few example transactions.